Need help FAST with Hardy Kiwis!

Discussion in 'Fruit and Vegetable Gardening' started by Tropical Nut, May 27, 2009.

  1. Tropical Nut

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    Help! My Hardy Kiwis, for the second year in a row, are having a "sex" crisis!
    My two female vines are LOADED with flower buds, soon to open, but my male plant has not a single flower!
    Does anyone have any male Hardy Kiwi flowers ready to open, that they can mail me, so I can try to hand pollinate?????
    Anybody ever tried this? I figure, at least it is worth a try.
    I am pruning using the Florida extension service handout, and doing everything I think I should, but if anybody has ideas on coaxing a "shy" male Hardy Kiwi to "do his job" (for next year...), please holler.

    Thanks!
    Carolyn
     

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