Kinghat convinced me so… I grabbed a few plants and couldn’t find a dedicated thread so here it is! 
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Careful where you plant them. They are hard to keep control of. They want to reach out and grab anything they can get hold of. I planted a bunch of them and I’m constantly cutting 10 foot tentacles going everywhere.
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Wish they’d do that for me, mine just seem to jut barely linger and only put out a few leaves.
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Did you plant arguta or kolomikta?
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The ones I planted were a Meader male and a changbai female.
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I have several arguta, a couple of hybrids, and a Jenny. I just walked around the yard and was reminded, once again, that I need to come up with a strategy to protect the larger leaves from the spring frosts. It doesn’t seem to worry the newest and flushing leaves, but every single full leaf is black mush after we dropped below freezing last night. I haven’t seen fruit yet, so I’m not sure if the trend is affecting blossoms.
I also had a trio of silvervines, but I’m not sure they were ever actually alive. I’m hoping they’ll spring from the ground, but I’ve no sign of life yet for this year. Even the stake the male was marked with has lain down.
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Is this evidence of a hardy kiwi borer of sorts? Should i cut it away?..
How it looks underneath that:
There was some white stuff but i scratched it off
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I have 3 potted females…Ken’s Red Hardy, Ana, and Cordifolia. My Meader male croaked last year so I’m looking to add another one of those and a Geneva 3. I had originally wanted to plant them along my chicken run, but the stories of their aggressiveness has me hesitant. I’m not sure how wild they’d run in z5, but I know my running bamboo rhizomes thrive even with deep -10s in the winter.
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Does anyone have favorite varieties for male or female vines? I saw some purple one here in the forums that seemed super interesting!
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I saw those too but the dude hasn’t responded back 
I just bought Ken’s red, Michigan hardy, red hardy, issai, and male arguta.
I’ve noticed they like to fruit on new growth?
This is one of the 5 but not the male one. Can’t see anything on the male yet in terms of buds. One of them, forgot which cause i don’t want to go outside, is not budding yet but this looks to be all on brand new growth.
Online it’s out of stock because they’re probably too busy to adjust it, but restoring eden has all of them in stock. That’s where i got it from
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He (@LoveThoseTrees) responded to me, but he’s out of stock this year.
Oh i saw someone else post about it, not him. Do you know if he has photos of his fruit? The one on his recent post looks photoshopped
I’m glad you started this thread. My foggy understanding is that there are some hardy(?) kiwi that are self pollinating and aren’t as aggressive of growers. I think that kind most interests me. IIRC, it also fruits after maybe 3 yrs rather than 7-8yrs.
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I’ve heard that about issai so that may be the one but I’m very new to this rabbit hole so i could be very wrong. Everywhere does say it’s self fertile though
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I usually like kiwi from the store and if these don’t have the hairs on the skin and are less acidic (I think I saw that claim), they sound amazing! Issai does sound familiar…
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I want to grow kiwi. Would love fuzzy but don’t know if I can make them work here.
I’m zone 8a and many say that fuzzy are hardy to 0°F, which we never reach. But I have also heard that they won’t really work with late frosts. We always freeze at least a could times in March and usually once in twice in April. But we are quite warm between those frosts.
Those that have grown them, will fuzzy work here?
Now getting to what this thread was started for: do you think hardy kiwi will work here? Are they too susceptible to late spring frosts?
Issai is self pollinating and is not quite as aggressive as others. The hardy IMO do not taste as good as the fuzzy. I’m growing both, but wish I had stuck with only the fuzzy.
Mine have some age and trust me they turn into monsters. Sometimes it takes a plant a while to get going.
No, they put out like six inch spurs. Easy to spot with lots of lumps on it.
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So they only fruit within 6 inches of the plant? I’m confused
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@Melon I saw a like but no message or reply. I don’t have a reason to respond to likes. As mentioned by @zone7a I am out of stock.
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