kiwi fruit 'Issai'
mini kiwi fruit
- 2 litre pot
- £11.99 £14.99
- available to order from late spring
Delivery options
- Standard £5.95
- Position: full sun
- Soil: fertile, well-drained soil
- Rate of growth: fast-growing
- Flowering period: June
- Flower colour: creamy-white
- Other features: delicious, miniature kiwi fruit
- Hardiness: frost hardy (may need winter protection)
This is a self-fertile variety that produces bite-sized fruits, which taste just like sweet kiwi fruits. They dont need to be peeled so can be eaten straight from the vine. As the vine produces both male and female creamy-white flowers, it wont need a pollination partner, which makes it ideal if there is only enough space for one fruiting plant. A vigorous, deciduous climber, which is best suited for training as an espalier against a warm, sheltered wall in a sunny spot, where it will start producing fruit around 3 years after planting. - Garden care: Provide good support with a network of horizontal galvanised wires spaced at 30cm intervals and using raffia or garden twine tie in the plant, first vertically up a bamboo cane and then laterally, along the wires as it grows. It produces fruit on one year old wood, so you should aim to train pairs of lateral stems to develop permanent fruiting stems. When these exceed the alloted space, pinch out the tips and train a new leading shoot. It may take 3 or 4 years to start to producing fruits.
