Thanks @BobVance for the kiwi cuttings! I cut the ends and scored the sides then dipped in rooting hormone. Now they all look something like this:
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ive got cuttings of arctic kiwi from JesseS and of the 10 i got, 10 took without rooting hormone. i soaked them in water overnight then scored them and put in my nursery bed. 2 of my neighbors now grow kiwi also. super easy to root.
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i dont notice anything negative going on but am wondering if these cracks are just normal growth for them?
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That is probably from freeze injury. Did you get a late freeze?
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Mid April iirc. Is it harmful? All the vines are growing really well.
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It will be fine.
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So I understand that’s freeze damage, but it will heal up just fine, right? I think I’ve seen this in apple too.
I’ve see this often on marginally hardy kiwi. It usually is on the southwest side down low where sun warms it as the sap is starting to flow and then you get a hard freeze. If the swelling and splitting is minor it heals just fine.
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Excited for my first year with flowers on Ken’s red.
I have 5x kens red and 3x weiki males (the most common UK arguta male selection) which are not showing signs yet but is about as mature.
This has been a really useful thread in terms of how perhaps to manage pruning for fruiting wood moving forward. I have 2 kens red and a weiki male in the corner of one raised bed climbing up a cattle panel and 3 kens red + 2 weiki male in ground on the other side of the garden on a kinda inverted A - frame offset slightly from the fence. For now I’m letting a clematis and a quince (pictured in the foreground) grow into them but if they start being productive I’ll give them pride of place
Sorry they’re mostly quince photos 
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The actual vines from above 
our back yarden is a tiny triangle sliver but at least it’s south facing and sheltered.
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I discovered this week my 10 yr old Geneva has canker which has resulting in more than 30% of the vine to die over the winter. The canker is at the bottom of the vine. I will remove. My question is will I be able to replant at the same location? Are there actions I should take to address this?
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Sounds like crown gall. I would just cut the vine off at ground level and let it send up new shoots. You should be able to train a new trunk and get a fully grown vine in one season from the established roots. I would only consider removing it if it continues to get cankers later on. The only other type of canker that attacks kiwi I know of is PSA. It’s not supposed to be in North America (yet) and hardy kiwi are also very resistant. Crown Gall is usually triggered by freeze injury or physical damage near the soil where Agrobacterium tumefaciens reside. This bacterium is pretty much everywhere, and is usually opportunistic taking advantage of injury or stress.
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I agree with @kiwinut . Just cut it back. Hardy kiwi are pretty hard to kill.
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As seen in New York and New Jersey…..
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I have an anna and clark hardy kiwi pair, the arctic one I bought promptly died shortly after planting… 
The pair though has done VERY well, the female which I guess is the Anna one, the small main vine that grew got broken during winter but it has a nice strong new one already growing out, going to trim whatever else tries to grow so that main one will get all the energy. The male kiwi however is already at 100% the amount of growth I want it to have O_o
But yea this is in zone 4b Wisconsin and both seem to have survived winter with flying colors and sprouting just fine 
Update, the female vine is already 100% height xD Thing grew like 7-8 feet within a couple months
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So I was going to grow a few argutas in my chicken run (with protection). I already have grapes climbing up the fence run on the south and west side so that option is off the table.
I was contemplating growing them inside the run along the north side fence…maybe a foot inside of it. Then have it trained a bit up out of chicken reach and letting the vines grow out and up southward. It’s more of a summer shade option with the bonus of some fruit.
The problem is I have hawk netting over the run. Where the plants would be planted the fence/net is 6ft high. It gradually rises upward toward the coop and run which is taller.
Am I going to be losing my mind with growth growing up through the netting? I was going to try to keep the new growth pulled under the netting daily so they remain more horizontal.
I have 2 Meaders, 2 Geneva 3s, a cordifolia, ken’s red, and ana. I’d probably put 3 or 4 in there evenly spaced apart…maybe a male in the middle and at least one geneva on a side.
I’m not going for ultimate fruit production with this setup although I would like to eventually get some.
Thoughts or recommendations?
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i have two female vines that flowered and a male that didnt, did my female set fruit?
i dont know of any kiwi around me.
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what variety is it? i have a bailey arctic kiwi that self fruiting.
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I have Anna and MSU females and a male. I think the one pictured is MSU.
If the berries continue to hang on there must be a male somewhere upwind. MSU is definitely not self fruitful. They may all drop off after a couple of weeks if they were not pollinated.
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