Date: 19/04/2009 09:22:02
From: Grasshopper
ID: 52963
Subject: Kiwi Fruit ?

After 7 long years I have finally got a crop of Kiwi fruit—about 16—in my excitement I picked 2 yesterday but they were hard and weren’t ripe.

What time of year should they be harvested I live on the lower Nth coast NSW.

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Date: 19/04/2009 09:48:03
From: Grasshopper
ID: 52965
Subject: re: Kiwi Fruit ?

This is meant to be from my friend “artychoke” but he was unable to sign in—-and was only able to do so under my name

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Date: 19/04/2009 10:11:52
From: roughbarked
ID: 52966
Subject: re: Kiwi Fruit ?

once they attain full size an colour they can be harvested for storage but for eating since you have so few why not wait until each fruit starts to get soft on the vine?

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Date: 19/04/2009 11:13:12
From: Grasshopper
ID: 52986
Subject: re: Kiwi Fruit ?

The reason is because he is not there all the time and the critters eat them—ate all his pumpkins and everything else he had growing.

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Date: 19/04/2009 11:18:27
From: Muschee
ID: 52988
Subject: re: Kiwi Fruit ?

Grasshopper said:


The reason is because he is not there all the time and the critters eat them—ate all his pumpkins and everything else he had growing.

Yep competition for your own home grown can be a bugger…I can relate to that

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Date: 19/04/2009 11:19:28
From: Grasshopper
ID: 52989
Subject: re: Kiwi Fruit ?

Yes he has a dreadful problem with the birds and the animals eating everything—

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Date: 19/04/2009 11:45:16
From: Grasshopper
ID: 52996
Subject: re: Kiwi Fruit ?

I found this on line

Q. How does one speed up the ripening of kiwis? A. Good news — kiwis are one of a category of fruits that ripen and get sweeter after they’ve been picked (as opposed to peaches, apricots, most melons, plums, etc., that do not get any sweeter after they’re picked). This is especially meaningful for kiwis, as they are commercially harvested when they are rock hard and shipped from California, Chile, and New Zealand to our markets, where they generally are still rock hard or nearly rock hard when we get them home. As with many unripe fruits, you can put kiwis in a paper bag with an apple or a banana, close it up tight, and the ethylene gas given off by the apple or banana will speed the kiwis to ripeness. Once ripe, they should be stored in the refrigerator.
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Date: 19/04/2009 18:01:59
From: pomolo
ID: 53042
Subject: re: Kiwi Fruit ?

Thought I’d slip this into your kiwi fruit thread Grassy.

I read in todays paper that we are about to see a new stone fruit called a rubycot. Developed in Q it has red flesh and a slightly fury skin. Can’t wait to taste that one.

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Date: 20/04/2009 05:14:39
From: roughbarked
ID: 53065
Subject: re: Kiwi Fruit ?

pomolo said:


Thought I’d slip this into your kiwi fruit thread Grassy.

I read in todays paper that we are about to see a new stone fruit called a rubycot. Developed in Q it has red flesh and a slightly fury skin. Can’t wait to taste that one.

There are quite a few ‘cots’ plumcot plucot etc. Simply hybrid between plums and apricots. I love the flavour of the plumcot I grow but it rarely has any fruitset or if it does, most of it drops off the first warm day. Developed in Queensland may mean that it is more suitable for Australia but also may mean that it is not so suitable for southern parts of Australia. http://statements.cabinet.qld.gov.au/MMS/StatementDisplaySingle.aspx?id=63377

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