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Fuzzy Kiwi
Actinidia chinensis var. deliciosa
Fuzzy Kiwi is the grocery-store kiwifruit vine - a vigorous twining climber that needs a male vine for every five or six females before any of them will bear. Its brown, fuzzy, egg-sized fruit is loaded with vitamin C and a mature planting can produce 8 to 30 tonnes per hectare, but the plant demands two opposite things in the same year: months of winter chill to break dormancy, and a six-to-eight-month frost-free growing season to ripen the crop. Trained on a sturdy trellis or pergola it also casts dense summer shade, but it needs steady water, shelter from wind, and soil on the acid side - it dislikes alkaline ground outright.
Record at a glance
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full Sun · Partial Sun
- USDA zone
- USDA 8–9
- Soil
- Loam
- Moisture
- Well-Drained · Moderate
Vertical layer
Vine- Soil pH
- 5.5–7.3
- Plant type
- Vine
- Mature height
- 15–30 ft
- Mature spread
- 6–10 ft
- Plant spacing
- 15–18 ft
- Root type
- Fibrous-shallow
- Spread pattern
- None
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