How much cold can an actively growing Issai kiwi take? Forecast calls for 25 degrees Wednesday night.
Last May mine got burnt some, but it was maybe 27F or 28F…that was mid May. They grew right back. Can you cover them? One reason i dug mine up and potted them is because they seem to be pretty tender from what i can remember.
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I had kolomikta ones freeze at 28 last year, but they recovered. No fruit, though. Bottom half of the vines were okay, so it was borderline.
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I am running triage right now trying to determine who gets to live, I don’t have enough cloth to cover everything. My pomegranates and figs are definitely getting hurt. I did cover my plums, citrus and blueberries, don’t know if it will help.
Mine was just planted so was not expecting fruit but don’t want it killed to the ground. Isons Nursery sent a really nice large plant and I don’t want to start back from the ground.
Are Issai grafted or grown on their own roots?
I don’t know about the grafting or not, but I would cover them well. I had some young ones freeze, and they looked dead, but finally leafed out in mid-summer. Maybe pile some straw around them, too.
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I have an Anna and a Meader, and they both lost everything green last year when we had a hard frost… they ultimately bounced back but it did hurt them.
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Mine lost their leaves last year but re-sprouted new ones later and still put on a ton of growth. The major downer was no fruit, the fruit buds all died.