Is there question hiding here somewhere?

Or are you showing us what you did?

Thanks for alerting me on this one. It is a new one on me.

Originally I wrote a three-paragraph set up along with the question yet when I went to submit, the site tells me that I did not sign in. I signed in only to lose the entry. I thought I had recovered it and I should have saved it elsewhere but I thought is was in tact and hit submit a second time. I guess it was an illusion.

It is not the first time I lost the message that way but this is the first time when only the pictures were displayed. ):

The old site never did this to me. Give me some time and I will rewrite the entry.

Thanks again...

Let me try this again, maybe the software here won't delete my words.


As I said:

It was the best of seasons, it was the worst of seasons.
It was the garden of wisdom, it was the garden of weeds.

OK, about three years ago, I planted both a male and a female Kiwi vine. Early in the next spring, some hungry critter ate the main stem separating the base from the small single vine by about three inches. I picked up the twigs and set them to root in cups of water. Four of them survived and grew well. I sold them after seeing that the base sent up new sprouts. (lower pic)

Now it is large enough that I want to take cuttings and sprout them again. My first attempt failed. Maybe it works best first thing in the spring but I will try again.

I now see that there are two different types of vines. (top pic) Those that seem to be there to serve the middle of the plant and might be the branches to support fruit. Another type is growing aggressively out the top probably seeking new horizons.

Right now, I have taken one of each, still connected to the plant, and sent the vine through pots filled with mulch. The pots are suspended from the framework. Hopefully they will root.

The question is, is there any difference between the two types of vine that will assist in successful sprouting of cuttings? Is one type better than the other for rooting?

P.S. I hope to remember the lesson I learned here. This web site will kill off anything I have written if I have not already signed in. Other web sites won’t even let you write until you do. Right now, I don’t trust the software here that I write anything in Word first. Oh, wait a minute. This software will not accept copy/paste from Word, only from a plain text editor.

I am trying right now with softwood cuttings from my female fuzzy kiwi. I broke off a branch on accident and decided to root it. As this is my first year of growing them I don't have too much experience but hope it will take.

My technique the first time was quite successful. Beginner's luck? Maybe but I and beginning to think that a piece of vine just coming out of winter dormancy might have more drive to produce roots than one in the summer.

That original time was strictly in water until roots form then into soaking wet soil until growth is seen. When it finally looks like a healthy plant, I reduced the water to normal potted plant wetness.

I did the super soaked soil with a woody branch from some daily like flower that blooms in the fall. The leaves were very small but stayed green and I soon saw roots coming out the bottom. Then the leaves started to grow and eventually I reduced the water to normal.

The most interesting thing is that I have one twig that I set in water upside down. The growth end was in the water and the root end was u p n the air, It remained very small but green leaves in two places. Now, almost 8 months later, it is beginning to show signs of growth. I wonder if nature has the power to redirect the flow of water in the Xylem in order to preserve the plant. That is certainly what it looks like to me. Time will tell.

When I get a chance, I will post pics of this.

Commenting to follow your progress.

I think the 'layering' in the pot should work, I do it to grapevines all the time. (albeit directly into soil not pots)

I shoved a cut off kiwi vine into the ground in the spring, it survived until late summer, then it withered but I didn't have any irrigation on it.

With your upside down cutting, some old-timers say to do that with grape cuttings, bury them upside down through the winter and then flip them right side up in the spring and put then in the ground.

BTW: is that a hardy kiwi or fuzzy?

Since I have seen neither bloom nor fruit on these, I don't know if they are fuzzy or not. Judging by your question, I presume that it is either hardy or fuzzy therefore, since they are approaching 4 years old, I guess they are not fuzzy.