How To Grow a Kiwi Tree or Vine From Seed, Days 0-24
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- čas přidán 28. 05. 2016
- First episode in my Kiwi series.
Not a lot of info about growing them from seed so thought I'd give it a go. I'm going to keep this series going for as long as I can - wish me luck on growing them!
I will try to list the biggest factors here so you can get off to a good start!
1) If sprouting from a store bought kiwi, be sure to use an organic kiwi fruit. The ones that are not organic tend to not reproduce very well and the seedlings may not perform well.
2) Kiwi seedlings need a lot of light when they first emerge. They are use to tropical and/or hotter climates so if you are growing them under a grow light, be sure they are close to it (within a foot at most) and get plenty of it - I had the lights on for 18 hours per day until they were well established.
3) Kiwis need a ton of water, but they need it to drain well too! Be sure the soil stays moist but it drains easily - which leads me to the final critical factor...
4) Most potting soils will work but BE SURE that it has a good mix of peat moss (retains moisture) and perlite (helps with drainage).
I hope this helps!
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my university thesis was on kiwi. one of the things i had to do is seed count. 1 piece of advice i can give to get the seeds easily is to use a mesh strainer, put the seeds with the pulp in (of course the less pulp the better) and start working the seeds and pulp in the strainer with your thumb probably under slow water flow. the mesh should be dense enough to not let the seeds through but thin enough to let the pulp squeez through. i did a few hundreds of kiwis that way so i guess it will be very fast for a few kiwis. nice video. keep up the good job.
Will this act violate any law or treaty like among the farmers and seed suppliers?
I bet you grow more pot then my racist black uncle does in Colorado.
Rob Backyard Gardenerr
How make bannan seeds
While it only takes a few weeks for kiwi seeds to germinate, it can take as long as 6-7 years for the plants to reach the stage where they produce fruit.
What 😭
@@sipperv1576 yes
Whoa 😮
In Manipur kiwi produce fruit 3/4 years after planting from seeds
Thanks for the information.
I have another video in your channel too
My kiwi seeds sprouted after 6 weeks, so sometimes you have to be patient waiting for germination.
Also watering everyday within time morning or afternoon before night
Hi! Did you place them in soil or in a paper towel?
Yes, I always give trees at least a month, they do need time.
Mine sprouted in a couple of days
mine sprouted in 2 days
I'm eating a kiwi while I watch this 🥝🥝
Same....
Same🥝
Same
I’m eating golden Kiwi 🥝🌕
@@faisal1979m yes when i saw this video I was eating golden kiwi. Much sweeter😄
My kiwi sprouted after 5 days :)
I used a strainer and took most of the green slime off. I m also trying to sprout orange seeds, they're going well also
What method did you do to sprout it in 5 days? or was it just wonderful luck?
@@dojoparsnip9905
It didn't work, but sprouted.
I took the seeds out of a kiwi I bought from the store, rinsed most of the slime out and put them in a wet towel paper (in a bag), and inside a closed warm place (one of my drawers 🤔 )
Their sprouts are barely seen, very little. and I checked each one other day if I see moist.
I guess it didn't work out because of the weather here. But these days, it would probably work.
(From Israel)
@@dojoparsnip9905
The seeds of the orange,
You need to help.
Dry the outer white seed without taking the peel off. The second day, peel only the pointed part (lightly), not to touch the inner seed ( first).
Make a little cut on the other side of the outer seed, the rounder part, but be careful not to touch the inner.
Both sides should be able to grow.
Keep in a slightly wet and warm (not hot) temperature, and without light for the first week. Check that air and light do go in evenly after sprouts. You can even use a wooden straw with tiny holes on its sides to allow light in.
I manually rubbed the seeds onto a paper towel to wipe the pulp off. Then transferred them to a fresh paper towel. ❤ it worked pretty good. Didn't know about the dark space bit! And planting them with the paper towel is so smart! Thank you for the video! 🙌🏻🙏🏻💝🤩
I also put my zip-lock baggy in a seed flat and the seed flat was put on top of a seedling heat mat which provides bottom warmth and they are doing quite well so far. They don't have to be put in the dark and most all of my seeds germinated. :-)
Thank you Rob, I've looked for videos containing steps on how to germinate and grow Kiwi for a while now. Much appreciation from Kenya 🇰🇪
Yeah, I have already done the molding way and failed miserably lol.
I never thought of just putting the paper towel into dirt.
I started some corn, sunflower, and mullet seeds from squirrel food...so far I just have sprouts, but it's only been about a week. Lol
My blackberry bush also decided to regrow itself in the ground right next to the pot it was in. I was cutting off limbs to regrow when I noticed it was already doing it for me.
I love growing things, I thinks that's why I love spring so much. 🌱🌿🌻🌾🌳
Thank you I just started gardening and it is a really good hobby at least I think so and this video helped me out a lot I am only a kid and it was really easy the only hard part is waiting for the seeds to spout thank you for making this video
oh my god you are so precious
Thank YOU for narrating your video. Description of what, how & why you're doing the way you choose is exactly what we came here to learn.
I did this myself and did not get past the seeds shooting in paper. but after having seen your video I'm encouraged to try again and use your method of transferring the paper into a tray. Thank you!!
Wow I am so impressed with these sprouted kiwi seeds! Thanks I am going to give it a try too!
Hi Rob, thank you for sharing! Came to your channel because I LOVE kiwi fruit and am finally ready to try growing my own kiwi and also, try my hand at lemons, strawberries, oranges, avocados, tomatoes, cucumbers and an herb garden.❤️🤗🙏🏼
I have two plants that were bought from a nursery about 15 years ago. You need a male and a female plant to get fruit. Also plant them somewhere were they can climb and have a lot of room. They grow so fast I have to prune them weekly or they well take over my deck in the summer.
Toad 1973 They certainly grow fast. I won’t know if I have at least on male or several until they flower... unfortunately a few more years (or more) away.
@@RobBackyardGardenerr how are they doing?
Can you get male & female seeds from same kiwi?
@@RobBackyardGardenerr are kiwi's winterhardy
@@i.nbudiarta2109 Nope. Unfortunately unlike grape vines, kiwi ones have their roots frozen to death by winters with low temperatures.
Im doing a project in school. We have to plant something from a plant. Thanks for this information! I am definitely doing a kiwi!
I left it in a tin baking pan in the sun and it actually worked, cause I have no warm but dark areas in my house, but outside it like 80 degrees Fahrenheit, great video and tips
I tried it and it worked .. now I come here to thank you ... keep going 😉
After watching your video I grow kiwi from seed on 19 Feb 2020 . .and it actually start to sprout after 2weeks. . .thanks a lot
Maimu Momin do u need to mositure the seeds every 3 to 4 days?
@@sachinkamath169 . Yes. . .please make sure that your seeds don't get dry. .
Maimu Momin thank you for the information 😊
Thank you so much for this video. I just started trying to grow my own kiwi and found it very helpful :)
Thank you and good luck!
Yayyyy I've got my sprouts after following your procedure. Thanks a lot.
Rob, you can put the seeds on a dry paper towel and take enough dry paper towel and rub the gel right off and it comes right off. I did that about a month ago and I now have over 20 kiwi seedlings growing.
Great tip!
Glad I can be of help! ;-)
I just took the kiwi into a blender with enough water to submerge 1 fruit and the seeds sink to the bottom with no gel. You can then decant the matter and pulp (that means just pour out the water without the seeds) and then rinse them with some water and pour the water out again and they’re clean. Works for kiwis, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries. Just about every fruit with small seeds can have their seeds extracted using the blender and water method.
Thank you so much! I’m hoping to start planting some fruits and vegetables! Thanks for the video
Nice job Rob. As a tip cleaning of the seeds can be made easier by letting them first soak for an hour or two in diluted muratic acid. Thereafter rinse the seeds with water and then rub the seeds with your fingers over a fine meshed sieve under some running water to get rid of the fruit flesh / gel that the acid has now broken down a bit ( just like gastric acid does in the stomach ). Happy growing!
or vinegar?
@@brisca3301 necropost, but vinegar works as well. just make sure to wash
I’m doing this now and after washing them a little I soaked them in cola hoping the acid would get the rest of the pulp off...I’ll c. I noticed your pretty wedding band, very nice., the older I get the harder it is to c these tiny seeds let alone the roots. Well good luck and thank u for posting this!
In this case, I did not stratify them at all. Thanks for watching!
Can you put the kwi in the garden
I accidentally stumbled upon this video 2 years later..
5-3-18
Gunna plant me some kiwi next to the mota!
Jean Oso Rojas oh hello there me too
Me too. Lol.
The last time I stumbled on a video like this, I grew lemon trees. Still have them doing great.
Muchies on the go
I’m even later than u 25/4/19
As in 25th April
I’ve honestly never seen Kiwis quartered like that 😆 Great tips, thanks!
Following your kiwi fruit adventure . Thank you Bella In Sydney Australia
Thanks you your videos helps a lot! 😁 I already have two sprouts kiwis ready to plant and the rest are just starting to sprouts.
AWESOME! YAY!
Very cool, going to start tonight when I get off work
Thanks for helping me to plant a kiwi seed 🥝💜
This is very interesting! I will test this out over the next month and let you know how it goes. Awesome video Rob!
Thank you and good luck! Let me know how they do!
I sprouted purple hull cow peas in a wash cloth in a baggy as no paper towels and left to long I planted all 5 with wash cloth and had 5 vines planted in my baby fig t. They did great. I mak sure I use paper towels and dont leave them so long. Lol thanks I have a kiwi that my graddaughter was tossing. I saved it and came to you video. Thanks so much. Hope I can figure out growing it in Phoenix Az zone 9B
Boutta try and grow kiwi...helpful & simple video. Preciate it 🤙
Wow Rob, EXCITED to try this. What a great video. Can you do an update on how they are now? How fast they grow? Males from females, etc?
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Nice starter episode Rob, I actually was trying this a month or two ago, I would put the seeds between paper towels and rub to get rid of the fruit flesh, but I think I had them incubating at too hot of a temperature and they never sprouted. Luckily my navel orange seeds and avocado worked out. Good luck with your kiwi vines!
Thanks Melvin! Hopefully it goes well, but "they" say only 25% of the seedlings that sprout actually survive - I hope I get 25% to make it since I do plan on trying to grow 12 plants!
I use a seedling heat mat and that is plugged via a power strip into a thermostat with a probe placed into a pot of seed-starting mix and the thermostat regulates the temperate that you set it for. Had ALL of my kiwi seeds sprout as well as some pomegranate seeds! ;-)
So far mine are doing well but I will need to transplant some of the seedlings into their own pots. They are doing fine so far. :-)
REALLY brother very good information and thank you i like it from Mauritius island🌱🌱🌱
Thanks for this video, so I took out some from only 1/4 of the sections seeds, but since I have a lot more kiwi, i'll take out some more.
Yoo I’ve been watching your finds treasure videos for a while !!
Thanks brother!
Thanks for the video Rob, I'll definitely give it a try
That is a great technique, thank you!
@ Rob Backyard Gardner how often do I give these seeds fresh air and how long do I give them fresh air for before I put them back into the bag? Can you please make me a video on how I give them fresh air? E.g how do I give them fresh air? Do I simply take it out for some time and then back into the ziploc bag? Or do I open the actual tissue? Thanks!
Thanks Rob.. I will try to grow my own kiwi... 😍😍😍
Well ...i hope im not the only one who needs to study now
Hi Rob greetings from the Caribbean thank you so much for your video on germinating Kiwis
You're welcome!
I’m in the Caribbean....is our climate ok for kiwis? How are yours doing now?
Thank you for the idea... I have been trying to griw kiwi.. Because I am curious how they look like when it's grown, unfortunately my seeds did not sprout.. Now I saw your technique. I will try.. 😉
Reina Castronuevo Good luck Reina and thanks for watching! I'm glad I could help! 😉
Welcome... I will let you know in case I could do this...And I'm sure I will😁.. Thanks for the reply 😉
To prevent mold i use 1 tablespoon sry of baking soda per liter of water peroxide didn't kill root rot and spray it moist also prevents root rot mold.
Just gorgeous !
Congratulations !
Z Zmsz Thank you! I can't wait to see what they do this year!
A very important thing to note with kiwifruit from seed is you'll end up with more male than female vines; on a small scale you really want mostly females that produce the fruit; so those finding they aren't getting fruit, this is why (the whole vine will either be male or female, they aren't self fertile)
Marshall Ashworth good advice. I’m hoping one of my 10 plants is the opposite sex.
Actinidia chinensis is dioecious means male and female reproductive organs in separate individual plants. Most of the plants germinated by seeds would become male. Hence vegetative
propagation is advisable for fruit production. No wrong in trying, may get one female plant out of hundred.
This should be pinned
How do you tell the difference between the male and female since they don't produce fruit for many years?
@@Laurel-Crowned When they start flowering, the male and female flowers look different. Male flowers are chock full of pollen while female flowers aren't. Look for the powdery flowers, take the powder, put it in the non-powdery flowers. Even works indoors.
Was really useful Brother. Thank you so much
harish hari Thank you. Glad you liked it!
Thank you so much, I will try to grow my own kiwi.
Sabrina Cooper YAY!! Good luck Sabrina!
Most awaited video on your channel is about Golden kiwi, please upload a video of golden kiwi very soon??
Heya just started it today- also I found that a whisk works well at separating the seed from the gel
How is your kiwis
Thanks Rob this does help. I have an old kiwi that I don’t want to just throw away so I will try this.
Did it work?
*I did the same with my tomatoes now they are starting to get their red color. 😂👍*
I just happen to be watching exactly 2 years since you put the kiwis to sprout
K. S. I watch this 4 years later
Hey Rob I planted kiwi seeds straight from fruit and I had 6 seedlings pretty fast.. but after a few weeks they all died! I have one hanging on which was even starting a third leaf, but has the same problem as the rest, the edges of the leaves turn brown and shrivel up. Any idea what is going wrong?
Nice Stuart épisode. Thann you vert much
Thanks, I'm going to try this.
I still have the original kiwi fruit in my garden, a long hairy one with dark green flesh, delicious and it's more than 50 years old. Found it in the garden at springtime when we bought this house. It is a wall of leaves now. Spreads all over the bush on the side of the house. The ones you buy now have hardly any taste! Lucky lucky me!
lucky!! have you considered harvesting seeds and selling?
I would like to know if you’re interested in distributing seeds also. thank
thank you educated us.thank you again mr.back yard .you making different food sector.
Thank you!
its really useful thanks for uploading
I got a small mini strainer from the dollar tree, like a powdered sugar applier?.. anywho, I usually like to put the seeds in there to wash away the flesh from seeds. I use this method every time, & love it!😊😊 then I will place the wet seeds on a plate to dry out, it's easier to scrape off to collect the seeds. I used to place them on paper towel as you showed in the video, but the seeds always sticks to the paper, so allowing them to dry on the plate does the job better, it only takes the day to pretty much dry... thought this may help ya out, just try it, & you'll NEVER go back to using paper towel again😊😊 I am going to share a video on how to grow dragon fruit from seed soon, & dragon fruit seeds are very similar to kiwifruit seeds, which I've tried this with as well, & I show my method in the video.😊 thanks for sharing this video 😊
Great tip Dulce! Thank you very much!
Nice video. I didn't do this method. I just cut a slice and place it in a small pot of dirt, and they all sprouted. However, being that they are too tiny to separate them now, if I wait until they are a little bit older (probably a month) will I traumatize the seedlings?
my kiwi is a sprout it works
Awesome! Good luck!
Marco Salina
i found that if you just roll the seeds in paper towel you can get all the fruit off it takes 5 mins for a whole fruit worth of seeds. cut them out the fruit place on paper towel and roll a few time take seeds and place on dry towel roll again gentile then place in your germination towel and bag no fruit gel
duckyy bundy nice!
Marco Salinas glaucoma
Very nice informative video. A distinguished now who are women and who are male Thanks
Thank you sir for teaching me how to be a kiwi farmer
Thanks Rob. Good video man.
KARL BEKKER Thank you Karl!
I found out that just moving the seeds to the soil, not washing them helps the seed to germinate quickly. But, it still takes longer than other type of fruit to do so. 🥝
hi, i had a question. So when you placed the paper towel with all of the sprouted seeds, you just put it in the tray with no soil under the towel? and then how much soil did you put over the paper towel and seeds? thanks!
It does help a lot...thanks!
I wonder if fermenting would work on the gel, it has big benefits for tomato seeds. Also with storage of scion wood I know paper is not recommended as it grows mold easy, sawdust, peat, bark, or coir are preffered.
Great info. Thanks brother.
3:56 heyyy you were filming on my birthday.
Cooper Confidential same :)
Rob did you just lay down some starter soil on top of the paper towels once you put them in the containers? Thanks
Cheers bro thanks to you I've gifted over a dozen kiwi fruit plants in 5 litre pots and now I have lost count on 30 _40 give or take how many Kiwi fruit plants I got my biggest plants is 1.5 metre with 14 branches all have 2 to 3 branches cheers mate. G'day from Mackay Queensland Australia 🇦🇺.
they sprouted ♥️
hope youre doing well, thank you for this video
Its a good technique i remember as a kid i planted strawberries and put them behind my tv cause it conducted heat. I soon just put it outside cause they got to long n i became lazy over time n they died.
Thank u for the info I'm going to try I hope works for me
I just happen to be watching exactly 4 years since you put the kiwis to sprout
Do they grow True to seed or is it like other fruit where they usually need to be grafted?
I wonder if it can still work placing it by 20 degrees
Can this be done in summers? Mind you that in my place the average temperature in summers (daytime) is around 25⁰C-29⁰C..? Please help 🙏
Sooo nice
Thank you very much
malak Saleh Thank you!
I want to know what can I use to spray my regular plants and my veggie plants that would affect the bugs but not humans when the vegetation begin to grow
shoud we keep newborn plants in greenhouse a little bit more?
or 10-25* celsium will be ok for them?
So when did you switch to tray with paper towel and what soil did you put on top of paper towel in container???
If you just put the seeds straight into a wire screen strainer, you can easily rub the seeds along the screen and it will remove the slimy gel as you rinse water through it.
From Kashmir. Thank you for this information
Rob, I need help, I have baby kiwi plant they are simply not growing they are stuck from 3 months ago, what I am doing wrong?
Thank you for sharing
Do I put the paper towel on the soil and leave it when they've sprouted?
I like your work
What are those off white spherical things in soil? They look like beads.
Hi, Is this bag we can keep in fridge for earliest sprout is it possible?
Nice information
It is a good video for starters.