Can you grow kiwifruit in your garden?

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Morgenmuffel

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#273251 12-Aug-2020 16:42

Greetings

Simple question, are you allowed to grow kiwifruit in your garden in these days of PSA etc?

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kiwifidget

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#2539601 12-Aug-2020 18:36

I'm not sure about the green, but you need a license from Zespri to buy and grow gold and red kiwifruit.

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andrewNZ

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#2539662 12-Aug-2020 18:51

I don't believe there is any restrictions on growing kiwifruit other than the licencing already mentioned. Green is not licenced, and I don't think the old gold is either.
Old gold is extremely suspectable to PSA, green isn't that bad.

However, I recommend you do a decent amount of research.
Kiwifruit grows fruit on second year wood.
It requires male and female flowers.
Basically all plants are grafted.
The plants aren't small.
The fruit doesn't really ripen on the vine, so you need to know when to pick it.

vexxxboy

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#2539739 12-Aug-2020 20:32

and it grows like a weed and it need lots of loving care to keep it under control, we had neighbours who had vines and in a short time it had taken over our garage roof and walls and also attracted wasps and bees so a real problem getting rid of it, luckily they let us remove it entirely, the fruit was just not worth it.

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MikeAqua

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#2540712 14-Aug-2020 09:23

kiwifidget:

I'm not sure about the green, but you need a license from Zespri to buy and grow gold and red kiwifruit.

There were recreational varieties available from garden centres etc, but you may struggle to find them now as commercial nurseries aren't supplying the home garden market. Zespri won't sell a commercial PVR licence to a home gardener, and even if they would consider a bid, you have to bid for x hectares and it's very, very expensive.

Mike