both male and female plants are required for pollination. One male will pollinate up to five females. Consistent moisture is key to good fruit production. Once fruit has set, remove whippy growth ...

New Zealanders had started calling the fruit kiwis due to their resemblance to the roundish and flightless brown birds, endemic to New Zealand, of the same name. Kiwi plants (Actinidia deliciosa ...

The female plant will produce fruit. Sounds like a familiar story of the birds and the bees. The first few years, we matchmakers weren’t sure they liked each other. The first year, the two kiwi ...

Originating in southern China, kiwi vines are deciduous woody climbing plants that are hardy, vigorous, and simple to grow.

Sometimes (confusingly) referred to as "Juneberry" or "serviceberry," the Saskatoon plant produces a small, sweet fruit that rivals the blueberry in taste (though with a little nuttiness ...

A. Most kiwi, as you may know, do need one male for every 5 to 8 female plants for pollination and fruit formation to occur. If the male plant died, this would cause the problem you described.

A short drive from the Fukushima nuclear disaster site, novice farmer Takuya Haraguchi tends to his kiwi saplings under the ...

Hale has been studying the plant for 11 years and sees an opportunity where others see danger. The fruit of the kiwi, he believes, makes it “an amazing, high-value, highly nutritional crop, that is ...

Defenders say any hope of turning the fruit into a local staple on par with the blueberry or cranberry will be crushed if Massachusetts adds the hardy kiwi to its prohibited plant list ...

Eating kiwis can also increase the amount of protective plant compounds you consume ... kiwis were given the name “kiwi” by New Zealand fruit exporters after the flightless kiwi birds ...

Biosecurity Services Group deputy secretary Rona Mellor said the disease was carried on cuttings of the plant rather than the fruit. Imports of kiwi fruit plants were suspended pending a review ...