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my university thesis was on kiwi. one of the things i had to do is seed count. 1 piece of advice i can give to get the seeds easily is to use a mesh strainer, put the seeds with the pulp in (of course the less pulp the better) and start working the seeds and pulp in the strainer with your thumb probably under slow water flow. the mesh should be dense enough to not let the seeds through but thin enough to let the pulp squeez through. i did a few hundreds of kiwis that way so i guess it will be very fast for a few kiwis. nice video. keep up the good job.
While it only takes a few weeks for kiwi seeds to germinate, it can take as long as 6-7 years for the plants to reach the stage where they produce fruit.
My kiwi sprouted after 5 days :) I used a strainer and took most of the green slime off. I m also trying to sprout orange seeds, they're going well also
@@dojoparsnip9905 It didn't work, but sprouted. I took the seeds out of a kiwi I bought from the store, rinsed most of the slime out and put them in a wet towel paper (in a bag), and inside a closed warm place (one of my drawers 🤔 ) Their sprouts are barely seen, very little. and I checked each one other day if I see moist. I guess it didn't work out because of the weather here. But these days, it would probably work. (From Israel)
@@dojoparsnip9905 The seeds of the orange, You need to help. Dry the outer white seed without taking the peel off. The second day, peel only the pointed part (lightly), not to touch the inner seed ( first). Make a little cut on the other side of the outer seed, the rounder part, but be careful not to touch the inner. Both sides should be able to grow. Keep in a slightly wet and warm (not hot) temperature, and without light for the first week. Check that air and light do go in evenly after sprouts. You can even use a wooden straw with tiny holes on its sides to allow light in.
I manually rubbed the seeds onto a paper towel to wipe the pulp off. Then transferred them to a fresh paper towel. ❤ it worked pretty good. Didn't know about the dark space bit! And planting them with the paper towel is so smart! Thank you for the video! 🙌🏻🙏🏻💝🤩
I have two plants that were bought from a nursery about 15 years ago. You need a male and a female plant to get fruit. Also plant them somewhere were they can climb and have a lot of room. They grow so fast I have to prune them weekly or they well take over my deck in the summer.
Toad 1973 They certainly grow fast. I won’t know if I have at least on male or several until they flower... unfortunately a few more years (or more) away.
Thank you I just started gardening and it is a really good hobby at least I think so and this video helped me out a lot I am only a kid and it was really easy the only hard part is waiting for the seeds to spout thank you for making this video
Yeah, I have already done the molding way and failed miserably lol. I never thought of just putting the paper towel into dirt. I started some corn, sunflower, and mullet seeds from squirrel food...so far I just have sprouts, but it's only been about a week. Lol My blackberry bush also decided to regrow itself in the ground right next to the pot it was in. I was cutting off limbs to regrow when I noticed it was already doing it for me. I love growing things, I thinks that's why I love spring so much. 🌱🌿🌻🌾🌳
Rob, you can put the seeds on a dry paper towel and take enough dry paper towel and rub the gel right off and it comes right off. I did that about a month ago and I now have over 20 kiwi seedlings growing.
I also put my zip-lock baggy in a seed flat and the seed flat was put on top of a seedling heat mat which provides bottom warmth and they are doing quite well so far. They don't have to be put in the dark and most all of my seeds germinated. :-)
@ Rob Backyard Gardner how often do I give these seeds fresh air and how long do I give them fresh air for before I put them back into the bag? Can you please make me a video on how I give them fresh air? E.g how do I give them fresh air? Do I simply take it out for some time and then back into the ziploc bag? Or do I open the actual tissue? Thanks!
I’m doing this now and after washing them a little I soaked them in cola hoping the acid would get the rest of the pulp off...I’ll c. I noticed your pretty wedding band, very nice., the older I get the harder it is to c these tiny seeds let alone the roots. Well good luck and thank u for posting this!
Cheers bro thanks to you I've gifted over a dozen kiwi fruit plants in 5 litre pots and now I have lost count on 30 _40 give or take how many Kiwi fruit plants I got my biggest plants is 1.5 metre with 14 branches all have 2 to 3 branches cheers mate. G'day from Mackay Queensland Australia 🇦🇺.
I did this myself and did not get past the seeds shooting in paper. but after having seen your video I'm encouraged to try again and use your method of transferring the paper into a tray. Thank you!!
Hey Rob I planted kiwi seeds straight from fruit and I had 6 seedlings pretty fast.. but after a few weeks they all died! I have one hanging on which was even starting a third leaf, but has the same problem as the rest, the edges of the leaves turn brown and shrivel up. Any idea what is going wrong?
I just took the kiwi into a blender with enough water to submerge 1 fruit and the seeds sink to the bottom with no gel. You can then decant the matter and pulp (that means just pour out the water without the seeds) and then rinse them with some water and pour the water out again and they’re clean. Works for kiwis, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries. Just about every fruit with small seeds can have their seeds extracted using the blender and water method.
When we done all the things and ziped it in zipper bag, the sprinkled water is enough for rest of days to sprout or we have to spikle some water daily?
Hi Rob, thank you for sharing! Came to your channel because I LOVE kiwi fruit and am finally ready to try growing my own kiwi and also, try my hand at lemons, strawberries, oranges, avocados, tomatoes, cucumbers and an herb garden.❤️🤗🙏🏼
I left it in a tin baking pan in the sun and it actually worked, cause I have no warm but dark areas in my house, but outside it like 80 degrees Fahrenheit, great video and tips
I sprouted purple hull cow peas in a wash cloth in a baggy as no paper towels and left to long I planted all 5 with wash cloth and had 5 vines planted in my baby fig t. They did great. I mak sure I use paper towels and dont leave them so long. Lol thanks I have a kiwi that my graddaughter was tossing. I saved it and came to you video. Thanks so much. Hope I can figure out growing it in Phoenix Az zone 9B
Nice video. I didn't do this method. I just cut a slice and place it in a small pot of dirt, and they all sprouted. However, being that they are too tiny to separate them now, if I wait until they are a little bit older (probably a month) will I traumatize the seedlings?
Nice job Rob. As a tip cleaning of the seeds can be made easier by letting them first soak for an hour or two in diluted muratic acid. Thereafter rinse the seeds with water and then rub the seeds with your fingers over a fine meshed sieve under some running water to get rid of the fruit flesh / gel that the acid has now broken down a bit ( just like gastric acid does in the stomach ). Happy growing!
I want to know what can I use to spray my regular plants and my veggie plants that would affect the bugs but not humans when the vegetation begin to grow
Nice starter episode Rob, I actually was trying this a month or two ago, I would put the seeds between paper towels and rub to get rid of the fruit flesh, but I think I had them incubating at too hot of a temperature and they never sprouted. Luckily my navel orange seeds and avocado worked out. Good luck with your kiwi vines!
Thanks Melvin! Hopefully it goes well, but "they" say only 25% of the seedlings that sprout actually survive - I hope I get 25% to make it since I do plan on trying to grow 12 plants!
I use a seedling heat mat and that is plugged via a power strip into a thermostat with a probe placed into a pot of seed-starting mix and the thermostat regulates the temperate that you set it for. Had ALL of my kiwi seeds sprout as well as some pomegranate seeds! ;-)
how long after you put the new seeds into the paper towel & zip lock bag do you transfer them into the square plastic containers w/dirt? Do you simply scatter the dirt on top of the seeds on the paper towel? Thanks in advance!
hello, Rob. i am trying to grow kiwi and since i only wanted to experiment doing it, i only germinated and planted ONE single seed lol. now.. it sprouted and i put it in dirt and it is about the same size as the ones you have in the containers.... the thing is, it has been about about 6 weeks now and it is still barely about half an inch long with only two little leaves.... are kiwi plants supposed to take this long to develop? and if im doing something wrong, what can i do to somewhat speed up the process? thanks.
ahmad ghafil first of all - great job! Now that it has some leaves on it, have you tried to feed it a little bit of 1/2 dose fertilizer to give it a little nitrogen boost? I'd recommend a little fertilizer and a little more water, well draining after 20 minutes
no i have not tried feeding it anything yet, but i will try chicken manure... and of course i will try to grow more now lol so we'll see how that goes. thank you for your reply and of course, thank you for uploading the video.
I found out that just moving the seeds to the soil, not washing them helps the seed to germinate quickly. But, it still takes longer than other type of fruit to do so. 🥝
The weather here in my city where I live(in Kansas City,MO)it's cold and it snow in the winter,if I plant it first indoors in a flower container after the sprouts was coming out using the technique showed here in this video,and after that I transfer the kiwi tree from the indoors flowers containers to outside on the backyard soil,will the trees survive during the snow and cold winter without dying until spring time?????.
i live in missouri , zone 5 i believe . could i start the germination process now ? & keep the tree inside - maybe in basement w/ heat lamp - during winter ?
Thank you for the idea... I have been trying to griw kiwi.. Because I am curious how they look like when it's grown, unfortunately my seeds did not sprout.. Now I saw your technique. I will try.. 😉
Derrick Abban I put the paper towel into soul at 3 weeks since most had sprouted. Make sure there are roots and a little green seed leaf before you plant in soil. Good luck and thanks for watching!
A very important thing to note with kiwifruit from seed is you'll end up with more male than female vines; on a small scale you really want mostly females that produce the fruit; so those finding they aren't getting fruit, this is why (the whole vine will either be male or female, they aren't self fertile)
Actinidia chinensis is dioecious means male and female reproductive organs in separate individual plants. Most of the plants germinated by seeds would become male. Hence vegetative propagation is advisable for fruit production. No wrong in trying, may get one female plant out of hundred.
@@Laurel-Crowned When they start flowering, the male and female flowers look different. Male flowers are chock full of pollen while female flowers aren't. Look for the powdery flowers, take the powder, put it in the non-powdery flowers. Even works indoors.
I got a small mini strainer from the dollar tree, like a powdered sugar applier?.. anywho, I usually like to put the seeds in there to wash away the flesh from seeds. I use this method every time, & love it!😊😊 then I will place the wet seeds on a plate to dry out, it's easier to scrape off to collect the seeds. I used to place them on paper towel as you showed in the video, but the seeds always sticks to the paper, so allowing them to dry on the plate does the job better, it only takes the day to pretty much dry... thought this may help ya out, just try it, & you'll NEVER go back to using paper towel again😊😊 I am going to share a video on how to grow dragon fruit from seed soon, & dragon fruit seeds are very similar to kiwifruit seeds, which I've tried this with as well, & I show my method in the video.😊 thanks for sharing this video 😊
So someone told me that you need to do seeds from two different plants so they will pollinate after is this true ? Do the vines continue to grow each year or due they die off ?
Roxana Ica Suteu I'm not sure how kiwis would do inside since they like the heat and ample lighting. I do know that hardy kiwi (versus fuzzy kiwi varieties) are much more cold tolerant and can survive up to -10 degrees. Good luck with whatever you decide and thanks for watching!
I still have the original kiwi fruit in my garden, a long hairy one with dark green flesh, delicious and it's more than 50 years old. Found it in the garden at springtime when we bought this house. It is a wall of leaves now. Spreads all over the bush on the side of the house. The ones you buy now have hardly any taste! Lucky lucky me!
hi, i had a question. So when you placed the paper towel with all of the sprouted seeds, you just put it in the tray with no soil under the towel? and then how much soil did you put over the paper towel and seeds? thanks!
BlueRoseArt very carefully... in all seriousness, I planned for some loss, but incredibly, they were pretty resilient. I planted them attached to the paper towel as shown in the video, but waited until they had at least two sets of true leaves (for the most part) until I transplanted them into the containers. I had so many seedlings that I could afford some loss. If you're working with fewer, then I would suggest waiting as I did. If you have a lot, then thinning them out would also work well to minimize the transplant shock that could happen. I hope this helps!
Mine haven’t been germinating but I guess I did it all wrong. Dried the seeds without removing the slimmy bit and I planted directly into the pots before sprouting!😢 will have to do it all over again
If you just put the seeds straight into a wire screen strainer, you can easily rub the seeds along the screen and it will remove the slimy gel as you rinse water through it.
They will after 3 - 4 years but you need the male and female plant for it to fruit. The only way to know if the tree is either male or female is from the flower shape.
Denis O'Brien the strength of the seed doesn’t matter. Many plants you buy are non heritage, Aka they’ve been genetically modified so people can’t do this exact thing.
i found that if you just roll the seeds in paper towel you can get all the fruit off it takes 5 mins for a whole fruit worth of seeds. cut them out the fruit place on paper towel and roll a few time take seeds and place on dry towel roll again gentile then place in your germination towel and bag no fruit gel
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my university thesis was on kiwi. one of the things i had to do is seed count. 1 piece of advice i can give to get the seeds easily is to use a mesh strainer, put the seeds with the pulp in (of course the less pulp the better) and start working the seeds and pulp in the strainer with your thumb probably under slow water flow. the mesh should be dense enough to not let the seeds through but thin enough to let the pulp squeez through. i did a few hundreds of kiwis that way so i guess it will be very fast for a few kiwis. nice video. keep up the good job.
Will this act violate any law or treaty like among the farmers and seed suppliers?
I bet you grow more pot then my racist black uncle does in Colorado.
Rob Backyard Gardenerr
How make bannan seeds
My kiwi seeds sprouted after 6 weeks, so sometimes you have to be patient waiting for germination.
Also watering everyday within time morning or afternoon before night
Hi! Did you place them in soil or in a paper towel?
Mine sprouted in a couple of days
mine sprouted in 2 days
What is right time to sow...
While it only takes a few weeks for kiwi seeds to germinate, it can take as long as 6-7 years for the plants to reach the stage where they produce fruit.
What 😭
@@sipperv1576 yes
Whoa 😮
In Manipur kiwi produce fruit 3/4 years after planting from seeds
Thanks for the information.
I have another video in your channel too
My kiwi sprouted after 5 days :)
I used a strainer and took most of the green slime off. I m also trying to sprout orange seeds, they're going well also
What method did you do to sprout it in 5 days? or was it just wonderful luck?
@@dojoparsnip9905
It didn't work, but sprouted.
I took the seeds out of a kiwi I bought from the store, rinsed most of the slime out and put them in a wet towel paper (in a bag), and inside a closed warm place (one of my drawers 🤔 )
Their sprouts are barely seen, very little. and I checked each one other day if I see moist.
I guess it didn't work out because of the weather here. But these days, it would probably work.
(From Israel)
@@dojoparsnip9905
The seeds of the orange,
You need to help.
Dry the outer white seed without taking the peel off. The second day, peel only the pointed part (lightly), not to touch the inner seed ( first).
Make a little cut on the other side of the outer seed, the rounder part, but be careful not to touch the inner.
Both sides should be able to grow.
Keep in a slightly wet and warm (not hot) temperature, and without light for the first week. Check that air and light do go in evenly after sprouts. You can even use a wooden straw with tiny holes on its sides to allow light in.
I manually rubbed the seeds onto a paper towel to wipe the pulp off. Then transferred them to a fresh paper towel. ❤ it worked pretty good. Didn't know about the dark space bit! And planting them with the paper towel is so smart! Thank you for the video! 🙌🏻🙏🏻💝🤩
I'm eating a kiwi while I watch this 🥝🥝
Same....
Same🥝
Same
I’m eating golden Kiwi 🥝🌕
@@faisal1979m yes when i saw this video I was eating golden kiwi. Much sweeter😄
Thank you Rob, I've looked for videos containing steps on how to germinate and grow Kiwi for a while now. Much appreciation from Kenya 🇰🇪
I have two plants that were bought from a nursery about 15 years ago. You need a male and a female plant to get fruit. Also plant them somewhere were they can climb and have a lot of room. They grow so fast I have to prune them weekly or they well take over my deck in the summer.
Toad 1973 They certainly grow fast. I won’t know if I have at least on male or several until they flower... unfortunately a few more years (or more) away.
@@RobBackyardGardenerr how are they doing?
Can you get male & female seeds from same kiwi?
@@RobBackyardGardenerr are kiwi's winterhardy
@@i.nbudiarta2109 Nope. Unfortunately unlike grape vines, kiwi ones have their roots frozen to death by winters with low temperatures.
Thank you I just started gardening and it is a really good hobby at least I think so and this video helped me out a lot I am only a kid and it was really easy the only hard part is waiting for the seeds to spout thank you for making this video
oh my god you are so precious
You're all grown up now! How's it going?! I would love to know!❤
Yeah, I have already done the molding way and failed miserably lol.
I never thought of just putting the paper towel into dirt.
I started some corn, sunflower, and mullet seeds from squirrel food...so far I just have sprouts, but it's only been about a week. Lol
My blackberry bush also decided to regrow itself in the ground right next to the pot it was in. I was cutting off limbs to regrow when I noticed it was already doing it for me.
I love growing things, I thinks that's why I love spring so much. 🌱🌿🌻🌾🌳
Rob, you can put the seeds on a dry paper towel and take enough dry paper towel and rub the gel right off and it comes right off. I did that about a month ago and I now have over 20 kiwi seedlings growing.
Great tip!
Glad I can be of help! ;-)
After watching your video I grow kiwi from seed on 19 Feb 2020 . .and it actually start to sprout after 2weeks. . .thanks a lot
Maimu Momin do u need to mositure the seeds every 3 to 4 days?
@@sachinkamath169 . Yes. . .please make sure that your seeds don't get dry. .
Maimu Momin thank you for the information 😊
I tried it and it worked .. now I come here to thank you ... keep going 😉
I also put my zip-lock baggy in a seed flat and the seed flat was put on top of a seedling heat mat which provides bottom warmth and they are doing quite well so far. They don't have to be put in the dark and most all of my seeds germinated. :-)
@ Rob Backyard Gardner how often do I give these seeds fresh air and how long do I give them fresh air for before I put them back into the bag? Can you please make me a video on how I give them fresh air? E.g how do I give them fresh air? Do I simply take it out for some time and then back into the ziploc bag? Or do I open the actual tissue? Thanks!
I’m doing this now and after washing them a little I soaked them in cola hoping the acid would get the rest of the pulp off...I’ll c. I noticed your pretty wedding band, very nice., the older I get the harder it is to c these tiny seeds let alone the roots. Well good luck and thank u for posting this!
Thank YOU for narrating your video. Description of what, how & why you're doing the way you choose is exactly what we came here to learn.
Cheers bro thanks to you I've gifted over a dozen kiwi fruit plants in 5 litre pots and now I have lost count on 30 _40 give or take how many Kiwi fruit plants I got my biggest plants is 1.5 metre with 14 branches all have 2 to 3 branches cheers mate. G'day from Mackay Queensland Australia 🇦🇺.
I did this myself and did not get past the seeds shooting in paper. but after having seen your video I'm encouraged to try again and use your method of transferring the paper into a tray. Thank you!!
Hey Rob I planted kiwi seeds straight from fruit and I had 6 seedlings pretty fast.. but after a few weeks they all died! I have one hanging on which was even starting a third leaf, but has the same problem as the rest, the edges of the leaves turn brown and shrivel up. Any idea what is going wrong?
Yoo I’ve been watching your finds treasure videos for a while !!
Thanks brother!
I’ve honestly never seen Kiwis quartered like that 😆 Great tips, thanks!
Wow Rob, EXCITED to try this. What a great video. Can you do an update on how they are now? How fast they grow? Males from females, etc?
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I just took the kiwi into a blender with enough water to submerge 1 fruit and the seeds sink to the bottom with no gel. You can then decant the matter and pulp (that means just pour out the water without the seeds) and then rinse them with some water and pour the water out again and they’re clean. Works for kiwis, blueberries, raspberries, blackberries, strawberries. Just about every fruit with small seeds can have their seeds extracted using the blender and water method.
When we done all the things and ziped it in zipper bag, the sprinkled water is enough for rest of days to sprout or we have to spikle some water daily?
Mangesh Thakur it’s enough for a week
@@RobBackyardGardenerr Thank you..☺
I accidentally stumbled upon this video 2 years later..
5-3-18
Gunna plant me some kiwi next to the mota!
Jean Oso Rojas oh hello there me too
Me too. Lol.
The last time I stumbled on a video like this, I grew lemon trees. Still have them doing great.
Muchies on the go
I’m even later than u 25/4/19
As in 25th April
Hi Rob, thank you for sharing! Came to your channel because I LOVE kiwi fruit and am finally ready to try growing my own kiwi and also, try my hand at lemons, strawberries, oranges, avocados, tomatoes, cucumbers and an herb garden.❤️🤗🙏🏼
I left it in a tin baking pan in the sun and it actually worked, cause I have no warm but dark areas in my house, but outside it like 80 degrees Fahrenheit, great video and tips
Thank you so much for this video. I just started trying to grow my own kiwi and found it very helpful :)
Thank you and good luck!
I sprouted purple hull cow peas in a wash cloth in a baggy as no paper towels and left to long I planted all 5 with wash cloth and had 5 vines planted in my baby fig t. They did great. I mak sure I use paper towels and dont leave them so long. Lol thanks I have a kiwi that my graddaughter was tossing. I saved it and came to you video. Thanks so much. Hope I can figure out growing it in Phoenix Az zone 9B
So when did you switch to tray with paper towel and what soil did you put on top of paper towel in container???
Nice video. I didn't do this method. I just cut a slice and place it in a small pot of dirt, and they all sprouted. However, being that they are too tiny to separate them now, if I wait until they are a little bit older (probably a month) will I traumatize the seedlings?
Can i use sphagnum for the germination? When I use paper, it often become mouldy...
Wow I am so impressed with these sprouted kiwi seeds! Thanks I am going to give it a try too!
Can you plant some outside? What if it gets cold? Does the tree just die off?
Nice job Rob. As a tip cleaning of the seeds can be made easier by letting them first soak for an hour or two in diluted muratic acid. Thereafter rinse the seeds with water and then rub the seeds with your fingers over a fine meshed sieve under some running water to get rid of the fruit flesh / gel that the acid has now broken down a bit ( just like gastric acid does in the stomach ). Happy growing!
or vinegar?
@@brisca3301 necropost, but vinegar works as well. just make sure to wash
Following your kiwi fruit adventure . Thank you Bella In Sydney Australia
How to do the potting part? Just spread soil over the tissue with seeds and the saplings will sprout through?
That's exactly what I did and it worked well for me!
Rob Backyard Gardenerr thanks!
Heya just started it today- also I found that a whisk works well at separating the seed from the gel
How is your kiwis
Hi, Is this bag we can keep in fridge for earliest sprout is it possible?
I want to know what can I use to spray my regular plants and my veggie plants that would affect the bugs but not humans when the vegetation begin to grow
Im doing a project in school. We have to plant something from a plant. Thanks for this information! I am definitely doing a kiwi!
Can this be done in summers? Mind you that in my place the average temperature in summers (daytime) is around 25⁰C-29⁰C..? Please help 🙏
Do you have to germinate them this way in a paper towel or can I plant them straight in a pot from seed?
You can place straight into a pot as well.
Nice starter episode Rob, I actually was trying this a month or two ago, I would put the seeds between paper towels and rub to get rid of the fruit flesh, but I think I had them incubating at too hot of a temperature and they never sprouted. Luckily my navel orange seeds and avocado worked out. Good luck with your kiwi vines!
Thanks Melvin! Hopefully it goes well, but "they" say only 25% of the seedlings that sprout actually survive - I hope I get 25% to make it since I do plan on trying to grow 12 plants!
I use a seedling heat mat and that is plugged via a power strip into a thermostat with a probe placed into a pot of seed-starting mix and the thermostat regulates the temperate that you set it for. Had ALL of my kiwi seeds sprout as well as some pomegranate seeds! ;-)
So far mine are doing well but I will need to transplant some of the seedlings into their own pots. They are doing fine so far. :-)
did you lay the paper towel on top of soil mix or under it, thankyou
sheila trant-mccarthy I laid it on top but then sprinkled the soil over it, about a quarter inch and moistened - kept it moist daily.
thankyou
What are those off white spherical things in soil? They look like beads.
Pearlite. Helps the soil drain
Do I put the paper towel on the soil and leave it when they've sprouted?
how long after you put the new seeds into the paper towel & zip lock bag do you transfer them into the square plastic containers w/dirt? Do you simply scatter the dirt on top of the seeds on the paper towel? Thanks in advance!
Waxy Parsnips As soon as I saw most of them has sprouted and had roots about 1/2" inch long and just starting to grow leaves out of their seed shell.
Hi Rob greetings from the Caribbean thank you so much for your video on germinating Kiwis
You're welcome!
I’m in the Caribbean....is our climate ok for kiwis? How are yours doing now?
hello, Rob. i am trying to grow kiwi and since i only wanted to experiment doing it, i only germinated and planted ONE single seed lol. now.. it sprouted and i put it in dirt and it is about the same size as the ones you have in the containers.... the thing is, it has been about about 6 weeks now and it is still barely about half an inch long with only two little leaves.... are kiwi plants supposed to take this long to develop? and if im doing something wrong, what can i do to somewhat speed up the process? thanks.
ahmad ghafil first of all - great job! Now that it has some leaves on it, have you tried to feed it a little bit of 1/2 dose fertilizer to give it a little nitrogen boost? I'd recommend a little fertilizer and a little more water, well draining after 20 minutes
no i have not tried feeding it anything yet, but i will try chicken manure... and of course i will try to grow more now lol so we'll see how that goes. thank you for your reply and of course, thank you for uploading the video.
ahmad ghafil Thank you and good luck with them! They are fun to grow for sure!
Read you need male and female plant to produce. How do you tell which are which?
Sylvia Hilxebrant That is correct. You cannot tell until they flower which is why it’s best to grow several to hedge your bets.
I found out that just moving the seeds to the soil, not washing them helps the seed to germinate quickly. But, it still takes longer than other type of fruit to do so. 🥝
The weather here in my city where I live(in Kansas City,MO)it's cold and it snow in the winter,if I plant it first indoors in a flower container after the sprouts was coming out using the technique showed here in this video,and after that I transfer the kiwi tree from the indoors flowers containers to outside on the backyard soil,will the trees survive during the snow and cold winter without dying until spring time?????.
Mine survived our winter. It gets down to the teens here for several weeks, but not a lot of snow.
shoud we keep newborn plants in greenhouse a little bit more?
or 10-25* celsium will be ok for them?
A kiwi plant grown from seeds can bear a good quality of kiwi or it grows wild fruits. Please tell me
This is very interesting! I will test this out over the next month and let you know how it goes. Awesome video Rob!
Thank you and good luck! Let me know how they do!
i live in missouri , zone 5 i believe . could i start the germination process now ? & keep the tree inside - maybe in basement w/ heat lamp - during winter ?
Sara Henderson Yes, mine were indoors for quite awhile and I could've kept them indoors even longer! They are so much fun to grow!
Rob Backyard Gardenerr perfect ! great to know , winters here are horrendous . thank you !
Thanks you your videos helps a lot! 😁 I already have two sprouts kiwis ready to plant and the rest are just starting to sprouts.
AWESOME! YAY!
should we wet paper towel again after opening 2-3 days for air
Yayyyy I've got my sprouts after following your procedure. Thanks a lot.
Nice...what happen after 4 years after your kiwi...hope u are update about that..thx
I wonder if it can still work placing it by 20 degrees
Rob, I need help, I have baby kiwi plant they are simply not growing they are stuck from 3 months ago, what I am doing wrong?
I just happen to be watching exactly 2 years since you put the kiwis to sprout
K. S. I watch this 4 years later
Do you have to plant the kiwi with the paper towel?
After how many days I should check it ?
I opened the bag every day or every other day to check, but also to allow some fresh air into the bag.
I am looking forward to this but how would you know if it’s a male or female plant
Rob did you just lay down some starter soil on top of the paper towels once you put them in the containers? Thanks
What are the weather conditions needed and can we grow it any type of soil
Aman Sharma Most soil should be fine. You can always amend it with fertilizer or compost. Kiwis grow best in warm climates with plenty of water.
+Rob Backyard Gardenerr did you plant it along with the paper towel ?? or just placed them in a bowl of dirt?
I seen the guy sprinkling cinnamon on his Cherry seeds to prevent molding I wonder if you can use cinnamon on all seeds to prevent molding
Thank you for the idea... I have been trying to griw kiwi.. Because I am curious how they look like when it's grown, unfortunately my seeds did not sprout.. Now I saw your technique. I will try.. 😉
Reina Castronuevo Good luck Reina and thanks for watching! I'm glad I could help! 😉
Welcome... I will let you know in case I could do this...And I'm sure I will😁.. Thanks for the reply 😉
How you determine male frome fmale trees?
By the flowers. No way to tell until it flowers.
In which climate it will grow well?
Do they grow True to seed or is it like other fruit where they usually need to be grafted?
Rob I just started and i want to know how many week until you take out the kiwi seed out of the paper towel?
Derrick Abban I put the paper towel into soul at 3 weeks since most had sprouted. Make sure there are roots and a little green seed leaf before you plant in soil. Good luck and thanks for watching!
A very important thing to note with kiwifruit from seed is you'll end up with more male than female vines; on a small scale you really want mostly females that produce the fruit; so those finding they aren't getting fruit, this is why (the whole vine will either be male or female, they aren't self fertile)
Marshall Ashworth good advice. I’m hoping one of my 10 plants is the opposite sex.
Actinidia chinensis is dioecious means male and female reproductive organs in separate individual plants. Most of the plants germinated by seeds would become male. Hence vegetative
propagation is advisable for fruit production. No wrong in trying, may get one female plant out of hundred.
This should be pinned
How do you tell the difference between the male and female since they don't produce fruit for many years?
@@Laurel-Crowned When they start flowering, the male and female flowers look different. Male flowers are chock full of pollen while female flowers aren't. Look for the powdery flowers, take the powder, put it in the non-powdery flowers. Even works indoors.
I got a small mini strainer from the dollar tree, like a powdered sugar applier?.. anywho, I usually like to put the seeds in there to wash away the flesh from seeds. I use this method every time, & love it!😊😊 then I will place the wet seeds on a plate to dry out, it's easier to scrape off to collect the seeds. I used to place them on paper towel as you showed in the video, but the seeds always sticks to the paper, so allowing them to dry on the plate does the job better, it only takes the day to pretty much dry... thought this may help ya out, just try it, & you'll NEVER go back to using paper towel again😊😊 I am going to share a video on how to grow dragon fruit from seed soon, & dragon fruit seeds are very similar to kiwifruit seeds, which I've tried this with as well, & I show my method in the video.😊 thanks for sharing this video 😊
Great tip Dulce! Thank you very much!
So someone told me that you need to do seeds from two different plants so they will pollinate after is this true ? Do the vines continue to grow each year or due they die off ?
Yes - they actually like to be heavily pruned, similar to grape vines.
I have some kiwi seeds that are surrounded with something in red?
Can I grow kiwi tree indoors, since in Kansas city,Missouri it's cold temperatures and snow during winter!???.
Roxana Ica Suteu I'm not sure how kiwis would do inside since they like the heat and ample lighting. I do know that hardy kiwi (versus fuzzy kiwi varieties) are much more cold tolerant and can survive up to -10 degrees. Good luck with whatever you decide and thanks for watching!
Rob Backyard Gardenerr.Thanks for replying to my comment.I will try to grow it indoors to see if it will grow and survive in a indoor container.
I still have the original kiwi fruit in my garden, a long hairy one with dark green flesh, delicious and it's more than 50 years old. Found it in the garden at springtime when we bought this house. It is a wall of leaves now. Spreads all over the bush on the side of the house. The ones you buy now have hardly any taste! Lucky lucky me!
lucky!! have you considered harvesting seeds and selling?
I would like to know if you’re interested in distributing seeds also. thank
hi, i had a question. So when you placed the paper towel with all of the sprouted seeds, you just put it in the tray with no soil under the towel? and then how much soil did you put over the paper towel and seeds? thanks!
:) How do you transplant those kiwis without damaging the roots in those containers?
BlueRoseArt very carefully... in all seriousness, I planned for some loss, but incredibly, they were pretty resilient. I planted them attached to the paper towel as shown in the video, but waited until they had at least two sets of true leaves (for the most part) until I transplanted them into the containers. I had so many seedlings that I could afford some loss. If you're working with fewer, then I would suggest waiting as I did. If you have a lot, then thinning them out would also work well to minimize the transplant shock that could happen. I hope this helps!
Thank you very much :)
By the way. Does it matter if you use Kleenex tissue instead of paper towel? Why is it paper towel?
It likely doesn't, but I'd stay away from any tissue with chemicals or perfumes.
Where you located at that the kiwi didn't die. I have a hardy kiwi berry because I have to cold of winters.
Thank you so much! I’m hoping to start planting some fruits and vegetables! Thanks for the video
So I have to leave them in the paper towel for 3 weeks?
Just gorgeous !
Congratulations !
Z Zmsz Thank you! I can't wait to see what they do this year!
Mine haven’t been germinating but I guess I did it all wrong. Dried the seeds without removing the slimmy bit and I planted directly into the pots before sprouting!😢 will have to do it all over again
Can I grow them inside my house? Do they need sunlight?
I grew them in my house under grow lights for several months without issue.
If you just put the seeds straight into a wire screen strainer, you can easily rub the seeds along the screen and it will remove the slimy gel as you rinse water through it.
nice video presentation bro, wud u pls tell me wat kind of soil medium u used while u kept them indoors?
Rinku Tony thank you for watching. I used miracle grow moisture control potting mix with a little bit of perlite mixed in.
hi, what do mean the digits in the sticker ?
It's just a produce number that grocery store use to catalog their items.
3:56 heyyy you were filming on my birthday.
Cooper Confidential same :)
Well ...i hope im not the only one who needs to study now
Do you stratify the seeds first or straight into the sandwich bag?
I left the fruit in the fridge for a few extra months,
Will the plants produce fruits? Because I know often random fruit in grocery stores are not heirloom, meaning their offspring don’t fruit.
Did you ever get a answer?
They will after 3 - 4 years but you need the male and female plant for it to fruit. The only way to know if the tree is either male or female is from the flower shape.
Better to use organic kiwis, they are stronger seeds.
Denis O'Brien the strength of the seed doesn’t matter. Many plants you buy are non heritage, Aka they’ve been genetically modified so people can’t do this exact thing.
Does dried kiwi seeds also work please reply
Hey just did your technique now I have to wait for my kiwi seeds to sprout before I plant them in their pots
my kiwi is a sprout it works
Awesome! Good luck!
Marco Salina
i found that if you just roll the seeds in paper towel you can get all the fruit off it takes 5 mins for a whole fruit worth of seeds. cut them out the fruit place on paper towel and roll a few time take seeds and place on dry towel roll again gentile then place in your germination towel and bag no fruit gel
duckyy bundy nice!
Marco Salinas glaucoma