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Last year someone gave me two Kiwi fruit plants from Wilkinsons, one turned out to be a stick! The other one raced away in my green house but no sign of any fruit. It died down and I cut it back, it survived the winter and is now racing away again and is coverd in small white flowers. What should I expect? Should it go outside or stay in the green house? Stay in the plot or put it in the ground? your thoughts please!

G'Day Goldfang,

Kiwifruit are Dioecious - you need a male and female plant to get fruit. I suspect that is why you were given two . While I haven't grown them myself, I suspect that the female was the stick and the male survived and the white flowers you describe will not provide any fruit. So........go get a female and happy reproducing!

Nev

I the same problem only the one that survived was the male plant, no flowers. It has engulfed the one side of my chicken house, (40 feet by 20feet) and still growing. It is a five year old plant, I need a female to make it happy, and maybe it will stop climbing the wall.

JulieMae

Oh yeah!

You can get a smaller kiwi fruit called jenny in the Uk now, and I'm pretty sure it's self fertile.

I found a place selling them for £5 each by doing the google search, but I have beans growing where it will go, so maybe next year.

hazel

I had a self-fertile one that I bought in France. Unfortunately it died in the heat last summer so didnt get to see any fruit.