Anyone propagating Golden Kiwi?

See this thread for the update on the AU kiwis

My AU kiwis all died, they had some kind of delayed graft incompatibility it seemed like (the stocks all survived). I have some other yellow fuzzy kiwis and can send cuttings in winter. Note they are hard to root, they need to be grafted to have good odds.

More generally I have found it can be hard to graft chinensis kiwis to deliciosa, and this is what the AU people did. I did a bunch of those grafts this last summer and most didn’t make it, they started great but petered out. Most of my big chinensis kiwis are grafted on chinensis seedlings that I had grown. A few chinensis did succeed to take and thrive on deliciosa stock though.

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