The best time to plant kiwi is from March to May. It is necessary to choose the most ripe kiwi in the store. The fruit should be soft, smooth and flawless.
Wash the fruit and cut it into several pieces. Gently mash the kiwi pulp. Throw the resulting gruel into a glass with warm water, stir, and let stand a little.
Rinse many times - and then the pulp will go away, and the bones will remain floating on the surface. You need kiwi seeds on a napkin. They will dry out in 2-4 hours. Wrap the seeds in cotton or cloth and place them in a saucer. Add a little hot water- it should saturate the material well, but not spill out when the container is tilted. Cover the seeds with foil and place in a warm, sunny place. At night, it is better to open the film or remove it altogether. Add the required amount of water in the morning. After 7-10 days, the kiwi seeds should hatch.
Take flower pot and pour a little expanded clay on its bottom. It is better to take the soil ready-made, intended for tropical vines. Soak it in a water bath for two hours. Put 2-3 seeds in holes 5-10 mm deep. Sprinkle them lightly with earth, sprinkle with water at room temperature and cover tightly with plastic. Place the tray in a warm, sunny place. The first shoots will appear in 3-6 days. It is better to start getting rid of unpromising and unnecessary sprouts already at this stage. Water sparingly and only with standing water. In winter, the growth of kiwi shoots slows down, and it is enough to water them 2-3 times a month. During the growing season (spring and summer), plants need more moisture, so watering is necessary more often - 2 times a week. In addition, in the hot summer, kiwi must be sprayed.
Remember to thin out the plants, otherwise they will interfere with each other. In the early stages, they can simply be pulled out of the ground. A little later, this will no longer work, since the root system of kiwi develops quite quickly. The most correct option would be to trim the unnecessary sprout. When the plants are 10-12 cm tall, transplant them into separate trays. If this is not done, their development will slow down. IN favorable conditions kiwi from seeds begins to bloom and bear fruit in the third or fourth year.
It turns out that kiwi can already be grown not only in an apartment, but also in your country house. Domestic breeders, having developed frost-resistant varieties, are already doing this, getting, by the way, a good harvest. Several videos about this
A small oval fruit with a brown skin and bright green flesh is probably familiar to everyone. Kiwi is a tropical liana, on which fruits that are well known to all of us grow in bunches. Kiwi grows naturally in the humid climate of the subtropics. However, it is possible to grow kiwi on your own at home or in open ground.
Kiwi - unpretentious plant, and with proper care, anyone can try to grow it on their own. You will learn how to grow kiwi yourself in this article.
Kiwi contains many minerals and vitamins. Even citrus fruits contain less vitamin C than kiwi. Kiwi also contains unsaturated acids, antioxidants and disaccharides.
Kiwi, thanks to its useful properties, increases resistance to stress and helps to cope with fatigue. In addition, nutritionists advise kiwis for people looking to lose excess weight, therefore, a variety of diets have been developed on its basis.
Growing kiwi at home from seeds is one of the most affordable and popular ways. To do this, you can simply buy a good, fresh fruit in the store and use its seeds.
Below is the short instruction how to grow kiwi at home.
First you need to remove the seeds from the fruit and rinse them thoroughly under running water to remove pulp and juice. Kiwi seeds are small, so when washing, use a bandage or gauze as a strainer, or rinse them thoroughly in a container.
Then the seeds need to be germinated. Place the thoroughly washed seeds in a glass of clean water and place them in a warm place for a week or two until they begin to open. It will be possible to change the water if necessary.
After the seeds have opened, soak a cloth in water and gently spread them on it. Cover the top with a clear glass or glass jar and place in a warm and well-sanctified place.
In such a "mini-greenhouse" the seeds will begin to germinate very soon. When mini-roots become visible on them, you can start transplanting into the soil.
Place a layer of expanded clay drainage at the bottom of the container, then cover the soil, slightly moistening it. The soil mixture for kiwi should consist of black soil, sand and peat. Place the seedlings carefully and cover them with a thin layer of earth.
Kiwi is a moisture-loving plant, so you should put the container in a warm place and spray it daily. It is also possible to tighten the container with plastic wrap to create a greenhouse effect. The film should be removed after the first shoots appear.
When the seedling grows up (it should reach 10-15 cm and have two leaves), you need to dive it into separate pots. Use the same potting mix, but less peat.
A lot of literature has been written about how to plant a kiwi at home, but it is much more important how you will care for it during its growth. Below will be brief recommendations for caring for kiwi.
Watering. You need to moisten the kiwi with a spray bottle. In the spring-summer period, you should not moisten the kiwi less than three times a week; in the winter, you should reduce watering to three times a month.
Top dressing. You need to feed kiwi once a year with vermicompost or compost.
Lighting. Kiwi is very fond of warmth and light, so you should protect the plant from drafts and put it on a place sanctified by the sun, best of all on a window facing the south. You can make up for the lack of light with lamps.
In order for a kiwi to take root and bear fruit, you need to be interested in how kiwi grows in nature before planting, under what conditions? Below will be given recommendations for caring for a plant in the open field.
Landing place. Elevation best place for kiwi, so that there are no roots near the roots groundwater... Heavy soil will not work for kiwi, it is worth growing kiwi in acidic soil.
Support. Outwardly, the kiwi very much resembles a tree with a wide crown, but still it is a liana, so it needs support. A high fence or a gazebo will work well, but you can also make a special trellis.
Mulching for kiwi is a must. Fertilizer should be placed under mulch or applied in liquid form.
Watering. Kiwi is a very moisture-loving plant, therefore, abundant watering, especially during the growth period, is mandatory for it.
How to grow kiwi? Not everyone knows that kiwi is a fruit that can be easily grown at home if you follow certain recommendations. The plant can be planted both in a pot and in open ground. Moreover, it does not even need a greenhouse (the exception is the cold regions of the country) if it is cultivated in central Russia.
Kiwi is exotic fruit of Chinese origin. It is also known as the Chinese gooseberry. Most often, the fruit is either consumed fresh, or used as a decoration for various desserts. Less commonly, it is used as a component of salads.
Let's figure out how to grow kiwi and enjoy delicious, sweet and sour fruits.
The first task of any gardener is to decide on the planting material. You can grow your own kiwi vine in one of two ways: by planting a cuttings or by growing seedlings from seeds. Each of them has certain advantages and disadvantages, but in any case, it will turn out to acquire your own kiwi, which will delight at home.
The main advantage of cuttings is their high growth rate (compared to growing from seeds). And the difficulty lies in finding a suitable branch for planting. It is not so easy to find planting material even in the southern regions of the country.
How is the landing made? You need to act like this:
That's all, it remains to plant a stalk with roots in open or closed ground.
Growing kiwi from a seed (seed) is no less difficult, but more time consuming. The main advantage is the ease of acquiring planting material. You can find it in any specialty store. The downside, as mentioned earlier, is the time spent. Will have to wait long enough for the moment when the seeds are reached the right size for planting in the ground. In addition, taking care of sprouts, due to their fragility, is more difficult than for cuttings.
How to germinate seeds? This should be done in a warm place. It is best to use a mini greenhouse or greenhouse (at least a homemade one). The easiest way to make a mini greenhouse is from a bowl, plastic wrap, and a damp cloth. You need to put the seeds in the container of the greenhouse and wait for them to peck. Then the seeds are planted in a special box for seedlings (can be purchased in a specialized store) to a depth of no more than one centimeter. From above, the box must be covered with either a film or a plastic lid.
Periodically, the film or plastic cover must be removed to ventilate the seeds.
Usually, seeds sprout 6-8 days after planting. Further, they should be thinned out. The procedure involves getting rid of weak specimens. Continue growing sprouts until they are at least 10-12 centimeters tall. Then you should transplant each sprout into a separate pot or into open ground.
It is very convenient to remove sprouted seeds from the soil with tweezers. But you need to act carefully so as not to damage the young plant.
You can get planting material directly from the fruit. To do this, proceed as follows:
The sprouts will appear after seven to ten days. You can transplant them into the ground after the appearance of white roots.
It is very important to stick to certain conditions for growing kiwi. Moreover, they are the same regardless of whether the cultivation takes place in open or closed ground. Only proper care will be able to provide the plant with normal growth and, accordingly, subsequent fruiting.
Remember that everyone can grow kiwi at home. But growing in the open field is a prerogative or experienced gardeners, or residents of the south of Russia, where practically all year round the weather pleases with the temperature and humidity suitable for kiwi.
So, the main growing conditions are as follows:
Keep in mind that it is quite possible to grow kiwi in the open field in the garden or in the country. This is not the most difficult activity, but it certainly won't work for lazy gardeners or newbies. But in a pot on the windowsill, everything is simplified, so even a person who is far from gardening can cope with the task.
It is not difficult to grow kiwi in the open field, but you still need to know the rules and adhere to them. Follow this photo algorithm:
When will the first fruits appear? When planting kiwi seedlings in the south of the country, the fruits will appear after two to three years (but only if the growing rules are followed). In central Russia, you can wait for the first harvest for 8-10 years. But at home, kiwi fruits may appear already on next year after landing.
As you can see, there are no particular difficulties in growing kiwi at home. If you act in accordance with the above algorithms, then there will be no problems. This means that very soon it will be possible to taste the first fruits grown with their own hands in the country or on the windowsill of the house.
Kiwi or Chinese actinidia is a tree-like tropical liana, its habitat is located in the subtropics of Italy, Abkhazia, New Zealand, Chile and the Black Sea coast. This wild fruit first appeared in New Zealand in the early twentieth century. Later, a large-fruited variety of actinidia was bred. But few people know how kiwi grows in nature and at home. Therefore, this information will be useful for those who want to grow this plant at home.
By the appearance of kiwi by its appearance resembles a tree that requires support. IN natural environment Kiwi fruits, collected in bunches, ripen at the top of the shoots. Throughout the season, the tropical liana changes the color of the leaves from green to white, pink and Crimson... This plant is popularly called the Chinese gooseberry. The ripe fruit is covered with a thin skin and has an amazing taste. Inside the fruit is a green, sweetish-sour pulp with numerous small black seeds. Most gourmets associate the taste of this fruit with strawberries, gooseberries, melons, apples or bananas. The average weight of one fruit is 80 grams. Kiwi fruits are rich in vitamin C, which is higher in fruits than in currants and lemons, and the content of a vital trace element, potassium, is twice as high as in the same bananas.
Growing kiwi at home is a completely real, fun and cost-effective process. In order to get the seeds, you need to purchase the ripe fruit at any grocery store. Currently, there are several varieties of this plant, and each of them can be grown quite successfully at home.
Given the natural growing conditions, kiwi is a sun-loving plant. He needs a certain place of detention on the windowsill on the south side, where there is no cold and drafts.
The technology for growing kiwi at home consists of several stages:
Seeds extracted from a ripe fruit must be washed well to remove pulp residues. Keep in mind that kiwi seeds are very small, they are washed through a sieve or cheesecloth. The cleaned planting material is dipped in a glass of water at room temperature and placed in a warm place, on the south side.
After 8-10 days, the seeds must open. If this does not happen, it is necessary to replace the water in order to prevent decay of the planting material. The opened seeds need to be provided with greenhouse conditions with systematic ventilation.
A cloth soaked in water is laid out on a saucer, the hatched seeds are evenly spread on top of it. In order to create greenhouse conditions, the planting material is covered with a transparent jar or glass and placed in a warm, well-sunlit place.
Greenhouse conditions will provide fast germination of seeds - literally in 3-4 days. The germinated seedlings will have microscopic roots, which means only one thing that it's time to plant them in the soil.
A nutritious mixture of peat soil, sand and black soil is optimal for growing this plant at home. A small drainage layer of expanded clay is laid out at the bottom of the planting containers, a slightly moistened soil mixture is poured over it. In order to facilitate further picking, the seedlings are planted separately.
Sprouted shoots are spread on the surface of the nutrient substrate and sprinkled with a thin layer of earth - from 2x to 3 mm. The plantings are placed in a warm place and irrigated daily with warm water from a spray bottle. Spraying with water can be replaced by building a mini greenhouse made of transparent material. Condensation collecting under the film will create the necessary moisture for the seedlings.
After the shoots appear, the shelter is removed. As soon as the seedlings grow up and release one pair of leaves, they dive into other planting containers of a slightly larger size. By this time, the plant reaches 10-12 cm in height. In this case, the same soil mixture is used as for sowing seeds, only with a smaller amount of peat. Unpromising and unnecessary sprouts must be discarded immediately, selecting only the strongest and healthiest. Timely pick it is extremely important, since the further development and fruiting of a tropical vine will depend on it.
In order to ensure the full and active growth of plants at home, they need special care. For kiwi, it is necessary to create conditions close to the natural growing environment:
A shallow trench is dug around the plant and fertilizer is placed in it. During watering, the fertilizing will seep deep into the soil, feeding the entire root system of the plants.
Kiwi rarely gets sick and is affected by pests, even at home. However, periodic inspections for the appearance of diseases and harmful insects will not be superfluous.
With good and faithful care, this plant, grown from seeds, blooms already in the third or fourth year of life and begins to bear fruit at home.
Growing kiwi at home is not an easy, but quite a fun, interesting process. It is worth noting that the Chinese gooseberry (as kiwi is popularly called) belongs to dioecious plants. That is, to get a harvest of fruits, you need both a male and a female plant. Kiwi blooms 3-4 years after seed germination. Then it will be possible to determine the sex of the crop, so I recommend planting as many seeds as possible - 25-30 seeds.
Almost all kiwi varieties grow well and develop in indoor conditions... But from my experience I will say that high-yielding and early-growing Highward, Abbott, Bruno are best suited for growing at home. Optimal timing sowing seeds to obtain highly productive seedlings - from March to May. It is during this period that the highest seed germination is observed.
When choosing kiwi for seeds in the store, give preference to fully ripe fruit. It should be soft, even, without obvious defects and mechanical damage.
When you get home, wash the fruit thoroughly and cut it in two. Gently peel off one half. Mash the pulp with a fork and send it to a glass or mug with warm water to settle. After 10-15 minutes, rinse the contents of the glass several times - the pulp will disappear, and the seeds will remain floating on the surface.
Remove the washed bones from the water, put them on paper. Then leave in a dry, warm place for 2-4 hours, until completely dry. After this time, wrap the seeds in a damp cloth and place on a saucer. Cover the plate with plastic wrap and send it to a warm place for one week. This will create a mini greenhouse for seed germination. During this period, wet the fabric regularly to keep it from drying out. And at night, raise or completely remove the film from the saucer. After a week, if everything is done according to my recommendations, the seeds will give the first shoots.
The next stage of growing kiwi from seeds is the purchase of planting containers and soil. It is better to take a long pot - this will make it easier to care for young plants. The soil can be prepared independently from peat, humus, sand and turf in equal proportions, or you can buy it in a specialized store, as I did. In any case, the soil mixture must be disinfected - kept in a water bath for two hours.
Sow the seeds in the following sequence:
Lift the foil daily and spray the soil with water from a spray bottle. If you do not water, the earth will dry out, and the shoots will die.
The first shoots should appear 3-6 days after sowing the seeds. When the seedlings form a real leaf, discard weak and unnecessary specimens. Continue to water the plants twice a week using only settled water. In winter - during the period of slowing growth, reduce the number of waterings to 2-3 per month.
In order for the plants to have sufficient area for full development, do not forget to thin them out. It is better to do this in the initial stages, when the sprouts can simply be pulled out of the soil. A little later, thinning will be problematic, since the roots of kiwi develop very quickly. If such a need arises in the future, just cut off the unnecessary plant with scissors.
As soon as the seedlings reach a height of 10-12 cm, cut them into individual containers. If this is not done, the plants will shade each other, and, therefore, lag behind in development. After a year, feed the kiwi with compost. In the summer, add complex mineral fertilizers.
