Instructions
There are two cultivation options: from a kiwi fruit seed bought in a store, or from a nursery. The first method will allow you to get a plant, but you are unlikely to wait for the fruits from it. This is due to the fact that kiwi is tropical, which is dioecious. That is, she has male and female plants... It is very difficult to distinguish the sex of a creeper by color. You need to be experienced botanists here. But it may happen that you are lucky, and from those that sprout, heterosexual plants will grow. Better, of course, to buy cuttings cultivated plants grown in your climate. They are guaranteed to bloom and harvest.
Let's start with the seeds. Choose from the store the most ripe, kiwi fruits. They should be smooth, soft, flawless, in a word, the best representatives their kind. Remove the seeds, and eat the pulp so that it does not disappear. Now they need to be washed and dried by laying on a layer toilet paper... Then prepare sterilized sand (unlike soil, you can boil it), mix with and refrigerate in the chilled meat zone for a couple of weeks to stratify the seeds.
After two weeks, the seeds with sand should be shed with a pink solution of potassium permanganate and mixed with sterile soil. Sterility will avoid damage to young shoots mold fungi... You can take the soil ready-made, intended for tropical vines(passionflower) and hold in a water bath for 2 hours. Then take a container with holes in the bottom, put a small 4-5 cm layer of earth and sow the kiwi seeds. Sprinkle them with earth and place them on a window in a warm place.
Kiwi seeds sprout quickly and very amicably. Now the main thing is not to let the earth dry out. Moisten the seeds through the pan.
When the plants reach 10-12 cm, it is time to transplant them into separate containers, otherwise they will slow down in development. Since the roots of kiwi are located in top layer land, it is better to choose wide, shallow pots. In the summer, take them out to the balcony, or better, take them to the dacha, let them gain strength. These fruit creepers are not very fond of bright sun, so place them in partial shade.
If your geographic area has a warm climate, then vines can be planted in. Kiwi seedlings form a trunk and crown, like grapes. First, a stem 60 cm long is left, and a crown of 4-5 skeletal branches is formed from it, on which fresh ones will constantly grow. It will have to be removed throughout the growing season. Kiwis are very fond of watering and spraying. They do not get sick with anything, therefore it is not necessary to spray them with various solutions. However, they are demanding on fertilizers. For season 1 adult plant"Eats" 100-120 kg of rotted manure. But it will delight you with delicious fruits. Remember that kiwis are dioecious, so plant one male on 5-6 female plants. If you have grown a lot of male plants, then you can graft buds from female ones on them, they will grow and begin to bear fruit.
Whichever method you choose, any experience will be useful to you. Who knows, maybe, starting with kiwi, you will plant a real tropical garden at home or in the country?
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Liana kiwi can be successfully grown both indoors (with sufficient lighting) and in open ground... Mature plants can withstand up to 15 degrees below zero. Therefore, for wintering, they can be bent to the ground and covered with foliage or sawdust, you can dig up kiwi and hide in the basement until spring.
In order to grow kiwi at home, you need to take ripe berries, choose seeds from them, thoroughly wash them of pulp residues and stratify. Further, the selected and washed seeds of kiwi berries must be kept in wet sand for 2 to 3 weeks, while the temperature must be maintained so that it does not drop below +10 and does not rise more than +20
Mulberry is a mulberry tree that can grow from 15 to 35 meters in height. Homeland is considered Southeast Asia... In other countries, they began to grow this plant much later. If you want exotic on your summer cottage, try growing mulberries.
Buy seedlings. There are several types of plant, so choose the one that you want to see in the country. White mulberry tree the fruits are tasty and sweet, and also nutritious. The black fruits are sweet and sour, possessing pleasant aroma and taste. And the red is practically not grown, since it is not suitable for feeding silkworms. But despite this, the fruits have excellent taste.
Prepare your mulberry planting site. The tree, in principle, is unpretentious, but certain rules must be followed. Dig holes about 60 centimeters deep and a meter in diameter. If you want to plant several plants, keep a distance of 5-6 meters between them. Otherwise, they will begin to grow poorly, because nutrients from the soil will not be enough, even if you regularly apply fertilizers.
Place the seedling evenly and sprinkle with earth. If your soil is completely depleted, add some mineral fertilizers - observe the dosage so as not to destroy the plant. Recommended
This rough, pubescent berry is just a storehouse of vitamin C. It is hard to believe that it has existed in this form for less than 100 years. Thanks to New Zealand breeders, it has become larger and much tastier. To understand whether it is possible to grow a healthy berry at home, imagine how kiwi grows in our homeland.
Homeland of Yang Tao, which means strawberry peach in Chinese, China. The culture belongs to the genus Actinidia, the species Actinidia Chinese. It was brought to New Zealand at the beginning of the 20th century. Chinese berry weighed no more than 30 g. Thanks to selection, it became larger, its taste was enriched without detriment useful properties, which make it possible to use the fruit for the treatment and prevention of many diseases.
Like its progenitor, the kiwi is a vine. But in wildlife she does not meet. This is an artificially improved plant. Even a new name has been invented for it.
Where does kiwi grow? Cultural plantations exotic fruit can be found wherever the climate allows it to grow: in Italy, South Korea, Chile, Greece. But recognized leaders in the production of this useful berries are New Zealand and China. So the kiwi triumphantly returned to his homeland. Despite the considerable difficulties associated with the cultivation of this exotic fruit, not so long ago, the first plantations appeared in Abkhazia, in the south of Dagestan, on Black Sea coast Krasnodar Territory... In a word, now in order to find out how kiwi grows, you do not need to go abroad. You can see this exotic in our country.
Kiwi can withstand temperatures as low as -15 degrees, so it hibernates well under cover, even in regions with cool winters.
A biologist from Uzhgorod G.V. Straton, by means of long-term selection, created new variety Kiwi is a Valentine that can withstand frosts up to -28 degrees without freezing! This plant will be able to winter even in the middle lane.
Liana needs support; in a wild forest, trees play its role. On plantations, supports are created artificially, by tying plants to specially stretched nets and installed poles.
What does kiwi grow on? Like his ancestors, he loves fertile, loose soil with a high humus content, moist, but without stagnant water. Actinidia in the forest most often grows in partial shade. The cultured kiwi prefers the sun. And he also needs regular watering, feeding, mulching, pruning and shaping. There is a lot of trouble in growing this berry. But this does not stop real gardeners. Many people try to grow the valuable fruit at home.
Growing kiwi from seeds is an exciting activity that requires patience and adherence to all the rules of agricultural technology. The first fruits will have to wait a long time - kiwi blooms only 3-4 years from sowing, sometimes flowering occurs only after 6 years of cultivation. But even flowering is not a guarantee that the fruits will set. This plant requires a pollinator. It is necessary that a kiwi-man and a kiwi-woman settle nearby. To maximize the likelihood of such a neighborhood, several copies of this exotic fruit will have to be planted in pots, since it is possible to find out which plant has grown - male or female, only with the beginning of flowering. On female specimens, the flower pistil is much larger. There are monoecious plants that have both male and female flowers at the same time. They don't need a pollinator.
With seed propagation of kiwi, at least 70% of the plants will be male.
Seed preparation and germination
Seeds are easy to obtain. All you need to do is buy kiwi at the store. The fruit should be fully ripe. Seeds have the highest germination capacity in early spring... It is at this time that they begin to germinate.
The algorithm for preparing seeds for sowing is as follows.
- Seeds are removed from half of the fruit and thoroughly washed from the pulp.
- The seeds are dried.
- Placed on a cotton pad moistened with hot water placed on a saucer.
- Put on plastic bag and put in a warm place. The bag must be removed regularly to ventilate the seeds. The cotton pad should always be moist, but not waterlogged.
- As soon as small roots have appeared, it is time to plant the seeds.
Soil transplant
Most suitable for initial cultivation plastic containers with a transparent lid of small volume. This is a ready-made mini-plate for plants. At the bottom of each container, drainage is made and it is filled with a planting mixture of peat, sand, humus and turf in equal parts. Seeds are laid out on the surface of a moistened planting mixture and sprinkled with a thin layer of soil. Its thickness should not be more than 3 mm. Germinated seeds germinate in 2 weeks. It is necessary to spray the surface of the soil with water, as young seedlings are very sensitive to lack of moisture. Delicate seedlings are shaded from direct sunlight. As soon as the plants form 2 pairs of true leaves, they dive into a larger container.
How to make a pick?
In order for the plants to grow and develop well in the future, the soil is prepared for them in the same way as for seedlings, but the amount of peat is reduced by increasing the proportion of sod land and humus. The root system of kiwi grows more in width than in depth, so the containers for planting are not too deep, but wide.
The sequence of actions when diving.
- Drainage is made at the bottom of the planting container.
- Cover it with soil at 1/3 of the height of the pot.
- Carefully remove the plant from the container in which it grew before the pick. The earthen lump cannot be disturbed, therefore, 2 hours before the pick, the plants are watered.
- Place the plant in new pot, sprinkling the roots with earth.
- The first few days after a dive, small kiwis especially need protection from direct sunlight.
Kiwi propagation
The seed reproduction method is described in detail above. It is inconvenient in that you have to not only grow a lot of plants, but also wait a long time for fruiting. It is much easier to propagate kiwi fruit vegetatively. For this, both lignified cuttings of the first year of life, which are harvested in winter, and green ones, which are cut in summer, are suitable. Rooted, they will completely repeat the characteristics of the plant from which they were cut.
The cut branch should not be thinner than 5 mm and have 3 buds. You need to cut them with a well-sharpened knife so that the slices do not wrinkle. The bottom cut should be just below the kidney and slope 45 degrees. The upper cut is made straight, retreating from the kidney by about 1 cm. In cuttings of summer harvesting, all leaves are cut off, except for the top one. It is shortened by a third. The prepared cuttings are placed in a lower cut in a container filled with water room temperature to a height of 4 cm. A day later, they are transferred to a solution of a root stimulator, in which they are kept for 24 hours. In both cases, a plastic bag is put on a container with cuttings. After that, the cuttings are ready for planting in a cuttings with peat soil. The mini-plate should have a double cover - a film and a substrate made of nonwoven fabric... When using artificial fog, the rooting rate of cuttings is up to 95%. Rooted cuttings are planted in separate containers and grown in a greenhouse. In warm climates, the plants are ready for planting in the ground after a year, in other cases they are planted after 2 years.
Kiwi can be propagated by pieces of roots from 1 to 1.5 cm thick and up to 30 cm long. They are planted in a substrate with a temperature of about 24 degrees. It must be constant, so bottom heating is needed. As soon as the shoots that have grown from dormant buds reach a height of 15 cm, they are transplanted into separate containers, shortening the parent root. In the future, they are grown in the same way as rooted cuttings.
To obtain a large number of seedlings on plantations, the grafting method is used: in splitting, simple and improved copulation, summer budding with a shield in a T-shaped incision. Budding can be done in spring and summer, all other types of vaccinations are carried out before bud break.
Care features
For successful cultivation kiwi has enough 3 components: a lot of light, timely watering and annual feeding with vermicompost or humus.
This plant can only be grown on a southern windowsill, but the light must be diffused. In winter, additional lighting with phytolamps may be required. Do not forget that it is a vine and for good care will thank it with rapid growth - an adult plant can grow up to 7 m.In the process of growth, it needs support. Any artificial limitation in growth will necessarily affect flowering and fruiting. You can cut kiwi only in the dormant stage in winter, which requires a temperature of about 10 degrees Celsius, and after the leaves have completely bloomed in the summer. In the phase of the beginning of sap flow, the plant is very vulnerable and can simply drain out of juice. Pinching the tops of the shoots will allow the plant to grow wide. In order for it to develop evenly, the kiwi pot needs to be rotated 15 degrees every 2 weeks.
Kiwi is very fond of water, so you need to water it regularly, but without fanaticism, so as not to cause rotting of the roots.
You can feed exotics once a year with organic matter. Vermicompost or matured compost is buried in a groove around the trunk. You can't dig deep - the roots of the plant are superficial and it does not like loosening. Better soil in a pot, mulch, for example, with chopped wood chips or bark. In the summer, during rapid growth, complex mineral fertilizers for indoor plants... The frequency of feeding is once a decade. As the kiwi grows, more spacious dishes will be needed, where it is transplanted in the spring before bud break.
The main reason for the death of a plant is an incorrect watering regime. It is harmed by both lack and excess of water.
Other reasons include the following:
- the appearance of fungal diseases and untimely fight against them;
- unnoticed pests that do not fight;
- lack of lighting and power;
- freezing of a plant if it grows on a balcony or loggia;
- cutting and pinching shoots during active sap flow;
- damage to young shoots by cats that like the smell of kiwi.
In home culture, kiwi rarely gets sick and is damaged by pests. Subject to all the rules of agricultural technology, the plant will be great, it will give you tasty and very healthy fruits.
An interesting question to which many do not know the answer: how does kiwi grow? We suggest looking at the photo.
Confidence in the benefits of this fruit pushes you to try to grow it at home. It is worth learning in more detail about the growing environment of the kiwi and the necessary conditions.
What is Kiwi
The birthplace of the kiwi is Actinidia, where it grows on a tree-like vine. This fruit is usually referred to as a fruit, but it is a berry and is popularly called a Chinese gooseberry.
The fruit stands out for its delicate pleasant taste. The plant blooms with small flowers, similar to a rose. Kiwi is covered with a velvety skin, under which is emerald-colored flesh, with small soft bones. The berry will come to the rescue with a sick heart, in the fight against excess weight and high blood pressure.
Despite the external similarity of all fruits, they come in several varieties:
- Highward is different large size and juicy pulp;
- Abbot loves high humidity and gives high yields;
- Monty contains high amounts of potassium and vitamins C;
- Bruno is in the highest demand thanks to high yield, good transportability and other indicators.
Where grows
Despite the exactingness of kiwi, many countries are engaged in its cultivation. The largest percentage of the crop comes from New Zealand. There are about 3 thousand farms growing fruits for export.
Some countries also grow kiwi, but often for local consumption. These include: Greece, Chile, Iran, Italy and China. In the United States, only California and Hawaii can boast of the harvest of these fruits.
Benefit
Due to its high content of vitamin C, kiwi is used in the treatment and prevention of many diseases. The benefits of one berry are comparable to a bucket of apples in terms of the content of vitamins and useful microelements: vitamins A and B, actinide enzyme, quinic acid, magnesium, calcium, potassium and phosphorus.
During pregnancy, the use of the fetus for food saturates the body with calcium and magnesium, which are necessary for the proper development of the baby. In China, the berry has established itself as a preventive measure against cancer. This is due to the content of ascorbic acid, which inhibits the development of cancer cells.
How to choose
To extract maximum benefit from kiwi, you need to learn how to choose it correctly. When buying, pay attention to the following indicators:
- bright fruity aroma;
- the skin should be smooth and firm;
- ripe berry should be soft to the touch;
- wrinkled peel indicates a loss of moisture and most nutrients;
- the peel should be free of spots and cracks.
After bringing kiwi home, put it in the refrigerator. There he can lie for up to 4 weeks. If you purchased an unripe fruit, put it in a sunny place and after a couple of days you will have a ripe, healthy berry.
Growing at home
In order to get fragrant fruits at home, follow these instructions:
- The seeds of the ripe fruit are removed and washed under running water.
- Shift dipped in clean water for a week until they germinate.
- After germination, the seeds are transferred to a damp cloth and covered with a glass or jar, creating a mini greenhouse.
- When the first ones appear with a root, the seeds are transplanted into the ground.
- The first leaves that have grown indicate that the seedlings need to be transplanted in a large capacity.
- The pots are placed on sunny side and carefully monitor soil moisture. If weak seedlings are found, they are immediately removed.
Kiwi fruit requires abundant watering, especially during the flowering period.
Reproduction methods
When growing kiwi, seeds and cuttings are used. For growing by seed method described above, it is necessary to prepare the soil from a nutrient substrate mixed with sand. However, fruits obtained from seeds can be strikingly different from the parent plant, losing varietal characteristics.
The vegetative method involves the use of green cuttings harvested during the pruning period of the plant in summer. Cuttings with several buds are suitable for cutting. For the lower cut, an angle of 45 degrees is observed, while the upper cut should be flat and 10mm above the kidney.
Note: a fogging installation should be provided in the greenhouse.
Next, the cuttings are placed in water, covered with a damp cloth and left for a day. To root the seedlings, peat soil is harvested, with a layer of 30 cm. The cuttings are rooted to a depth of 3 cm, at a distance of 7 cm from each other. Strictly observe the level of humidity (at least 95%) and soil temperature (at least 3 ° C).
Waiting for the harvest
With proper care and adherence to all the rules, the result will be positive. However, for this you should be patient, since the first berries will appear no earlier than three years. How worse conditions- the longer this period.
Keep in mind that kiwi is dioecious and therefore you will need male and female plants to produce fruit. Growing with cuttings will allow this condition to be fulfilled even during planting. The seed propagation method will reveal the floor of the seedling only during flowering, that is, not earlier than three years later.
Despite the difficulties you will have to face, the result will justify all your efforts and patience. And you can be proud of the grown with my own hands exotic fruit.
How kiwi grows, see the following video:
Even inexperienced growers can plant this overseas fruit at home. The whole process can be divided into three stages, which do not require special skills or special knowledge.
Step one - preparing the seeds
Seed preparation for planting is as follows. The seeds must be removed with a spoon, then placed in a fine sieve (you can use gauze) and rinsed under running warm water, carefully separating them from the pulp of the fruit.
Fragments of pulp should not remain on the seeds, the further health of the seedlings depends on this.
The number of seeds should be determined on the basis that many of them may not germinate. It is best to start germination with 20-30 pieces, leaving the strongest ones as they grow. Growing kiwi from seeds at home does not require much time or money. The main thing to remember is that this plant is a rainforest inhabitant. He needs warmth good lighting and regular moistening (both of the soil and its aboveground part).
Step two - planting seeds
There are three ways you can start germinating your seeds.
- Peeled and washed kiwi seeds are placed in a tank with settled (or boiled) water at room temperature. Vessel with planting material located in a warm room, you can heating appliances... The most "live" seeds will hatch by the end of the first week, but if germination is delayed, you should replace the water with fresh water and wait a few more days.
- The second method is similar to the first, but differs in that the kiwi seeds are placed in a napkin or cotton wool soaked in warm water. The water should completely soak the cotton wool, but it should not fill the entire area of the plate. Next, a plate with seeds is tightly covered with cling film and placed on a warm windowsill. At night, it is better to remove the film, allowing the seeds to breathe. In a week, the most active of them will be revealed.
- The third method is fundamentally different from the previous ones. It consists in sowing kiwi seeds directly into peat without presoaking. The peat should be well and evenly moistened, the seeds are sown to a depth of no more than 5 mm. For early germination, it is necessary to create a kind of greenhouse at home. The container with seeds is covered with cling film and placed in a place with an air temperature of at least + 25 ° C. Watering should be done regularly, the soil should not dry out.
It is better to moisten the soil with a spray gun, so as not to erode the soil and not wash the seeds on its surface.
The third step is planting germinated seeds in the ground
When the soaked seeds opened and small roots appeared, it's time to continue growing kiwi in specially prepared soil. The soil can be mixed at home on your own, or you can buy ready-made soil mixture for vines. The main thing is that it should be well aerated, with a high content of coconut fibers and vermiculite. Seeds are placed in prepared pots in several pieces. In the future, only one, the strongest sprout is left, the rest are removed at an early stage (in the presence of two or three leaves).
The plant needs to provide complete drainage system, since the health of the root system depends on it.
To the bottom of the pot, which will become a permanent "home" for the time being young plant, pour in a thick layer of expanded clay, which will not allow excess moisture to stagnate at the roots, and will also provide soil breathing. As a material for drainage, not only expanded clay is suitable, but also calcined pebbles, broken tiles, pieces of foam.
The pot with future seedlings is covered with glass, transparent plastic or film. The best place for such an impromptu greenhouse - a southern window sill in a warm room. Growing kiwi at home requires compliance with a certain temperature regime... Before the first shoots appear, the air temperature should be at least 25 degrees Celsius, bottom heating of the pot is allowed.
The greenhouse is aired daily. The soil is regularly moistened with warm, settled water using a spray bottle. In no case should it be allowed to dry completely. When the sprouts reach 1–1.5 cm, the greenhouse is completely opened.
Home care for kiwi
It should be noted that kiwi is a fast-growing liana, which needs strong support for growth. In nature, the plant uses nearby trees for these purposes. V indoor conditions these should be well-fixed nets, artificial trunks and other suitable supports available in the house.
According to the principle of growth, kiwi resembles grapes. Under natural conditions, its length can reach 8 meters, in culture - about 3. Starting from tiny seeds, it is difficult to imagine that in the coming years an exotic liana will bear fruit at home.
Kiwi is a fast growing plant that actively consumes nitrogen. Every spring (at the beginning of the growing season), it is imperative to feed the plant, replenishing the lack of essential minerals in the soil. First of all, it is worth remembering the saturation of the substrate with nitrogen. In no case should such events be carried out in the autumn-winter period.
Watering and lighting
Since the kiwi is a native of tropical rainforests, it is necessary to create the appropriate conditions for it to feel "at home." This primarily concerns high humidity... It can be created using special air humidifiers, as well as by regularly spraying the plant (which is extremely important). Good result gives the placement of the pot in a pallet with expanded clay and water.
Drying out the soil is very dangerous and can destroy the plant. With a lack of moisture, the leaves droop, and if measures are not taken in time, they begin to dry at the edges and subsequently fall off. Water the plant so that the water completely moistens the soil and goes out through the drainage holes into the pan.
Lighting for a plant, both in nature and at home, needs bright, which is an indispensable condition for the full growth and fruiting of a vine. In this case, direct sunlight can leave burns on the leaves.
In summer, at home, you should create the effect of diffused sunlight during the hottest hours of the day. Tulle works well for this.
The lack of light has an extremely negative effect on kiwi - the plant stretches out, the leaves become smaller and brighter, the flowers do not develop, and fruiting does not come.
Planting kiwi at home is not difficult at all, and growing it is not a hassle. All that needs to be done is watering, fertilizing and pruning in a timely manner (this process is practically no different from pruning grapes). The plant, in turn, will surely thank you with its vitamin fruits!
Curious gardeners who are interested in everything new, who are not afraid to experiment in their apartment and at their summer cottage, may wonder how kiwi grows, and is it possible to grow this wonderful fruit in our Russian climate? We will try to answer it.
Kiwi was cultivated just a hundred years ago by New Zealander Allison, who raised and bred the plant from seeds obtained from China. The plant was named after the kiwi bird found in New Zealand due to their physical resemblance.
Kiwi has gained great popularity due to its rich content of vitamin C, according to this indicator, it bypasses apples. It also contains vitamins A, E, B1, and the juice of this fruit contains quinic acid in the same volume as lemon juice... Kiwi fruits are good remedy to improve digestion. Due to the fact that kiwis are low in calories and rich in nutrients, they are recommended as a dietary product. It is believed that the use of this fruit contributes to the prevention of cancer.
Gardeners are interested in how kiwi grows, not only because of its medicinal properties... The plant is practically not susceptible to disease, it is not damaged by pests. When breeding, it must be borne in mind that it does not like mineral fertilizers in large doses. Its root system is located in the surface layer of the soil, which is rich in nutrients. When planting kiwi in open ground, it is necessary to select a place protected from the wind by a vineyard or fruit trees... therefore, it is necessary for the production of fruits, so that individuals of females and males grow. Contribute to an increase in the yield of kiwi soils rich in humus and well aerated. Kiwi is very picky about watering. Water is especially needed during the flowering period, in the first two months. But at the same time, waterlogging of the soil should not be allowed, otherwise the plant may experience
You can plant kiwi seedlings in open ground. In this case, it is impossible to tamp the earth in the hole, it is imperative to shade the plant and water it well. The seedling in the first year reaches 3 meters, it does not need to be treated with pesticides. In the summer, the plant needs pruning. It is possible to grow kiwi at home from seeds obtained from the fruits of the plant. The seeds are placed in a container with wet sand and refrigerated for 2-3 weeks. Then the container must be placed in a warm room, covered plastic wrap or glass, and expect seed germination. It is better to plant them in the spring. Fruits appear in three to four years.
Gardeners are worried about how kiwi grows when the temperature drops? The plant belongs to deciduous vines. It can withstand temperatures from -16 to -30 ° C. At the same time, it tolerates frost sensitively. Therefore, it is recommended in the Russian climate to grow kiwi in greenhouses, in greenhouses without heating. It is possible to cultivate crops in the open field, but then the yield decreases.
The plant is a liana, the growth of its shoots continues throughout the growing season, so growing kiwi requires support. They can be a pergola, trellis, gazebo. Virtually all kiwi flowers in the field of pollination bear fruit. But their size depends on how many seeds are set. Since the roots of the plant lie in the upper layer of the soil, it must be loosened carefully so as not to damage root system... It is advised to feed the plant with sulfate forms of potash and nitrogen fertilizers.
There are many gardeners in Russia who manage to grow this thermophilic crop. We learned the science of how kiwi grows in several regions of our country: in Novocherkassk, in the Volgograd region, near Moscow. The fruit from growing exclusively in New Zealand has gradually turned into a fairly widespread culture, which is now cultivated in various countries of the world.