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Reedo

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Hardy Kiwis / Kiwi Berries
« on: October 26, 2022, 10:12:18 AM »
Hi folks,

I'm looking for information on hardy kiwis. If you have experience growing any of the following cultivars, or others not listed, I'd love to hear about their vigor, productivity, taste, and anything else you deem noteworthy. All the cultivars and information here was taken from the Planting Justice website (https://plantingjustice.org/shop/?_search_test=hardy+kiwi).

74/49 (Forty-Niner)
A variety from Chico State breeding program that is highly productive and large.

Ananasnaya
Abundant good size green blushed red fruit..

Chang Bai
Green, smooth skinned, sweet fruits are productive and somewhat heart shaped.

Cherry Bomb
Sweet, red fruited strain with attractive large luxuriant foliage.

Chico State
Prolific producer of large green, sweet high quality fruits that separate easily from the stem. Ripens about 1 week earlier than Anasasnaya.

Cordiflolia
Early ripening variety is very productive of extremely sweet dark green fruit. Introduced by fruit explorer Roger Meyer, this variety is considered to be one of the best.

Dumbarton
Large, sweet lime-green fruit has a somewhat ribbed shape and is very tasty. From an old planting found in the Washington D.C. area. Popular on the east coast.

Geneva
This cold hardy variety from the Geneva Research Station in New York has sweet, medium size fruit.

Issai
Japanese variety produces tasty fruits on less vigorous vines. Self-fertile

Jumbo
A new Italian variety that has super large, sweet and flavorable greenish yellow fruit that can weight 1 ounce each. Considered the largest fruit of any hardy kiwi it has smooth edible skin and grows on a vigorous and ornamental vine said to hardy zones 4

Ken's Red
Produces large very sweet intensely flavored fruits with red skin and flesh.

MSU
New variety from Michigan state has very large (up to one ounce) green colored fruit that is sweet and delicious.

Natasha
From Vladivostok, Russia, this exceptionally hardy variety bears abundant crops of sweet and delicious, large round fruit.

Red
This unique species of Hardy Kiwi bears good crops of striking, cranberry-red fruit with red flesh.

Red Princess
Unique variety from New Zealand with red-fleshed, sweet small, oval fruit.

Rossana
A new Italian variety, that bears heavy crops of large, delicious, red-blushed and attractive fruit.

Rossy

Sentyabraskaya, or September Sun
A productive Russian variety with tasty, sweet, medium-large emerald-green fruit that ripens in mid to late August. Vine has very attractive green foliage with pink and red overlay. Hardy zones 3-9.

Tatyana
This exceptionally hardy female variety bears abundant crops of tasty, sweet, large, lime-green fruit.

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Re: Hardy Kiwis / Kiwi Berries
« Reply #1 on: February 24, 2023, 01:21:21 PM »
Im in the Market for some Kiwi Berry Vines, I had the small greenish kiwi berry for the 1st time last year up in southern OR at a farmers market such a treat on a hot day.  plus my buddy swears his cat loves them hahaha
Did you end up growing any of these by any chance ?

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Re: Hardy Kiwis / Kiwi Berries
« Reply #2 on: February 24, 2023, 06:57:48 PM »
I have the issai and the kens red. Issai fruited for the first time last year, had several berries, very tasty, just like regular kiwi or actually better.
The kens red had alot of flowers but didnt set anything, the flowers didnt had visible ovaries while they were flowering, like issai's flowers had, which leads me to the conclusion that it may be a male kens red, or not a kens red at all.
I red that kens red variety has both male and female plants.

 

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