Agriculture Reference
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Figure 4.96
Pruning kiwifruit.
dormant season. Prune out fruiting arms
that have produced for two or three years;
you will be able to see where the fruit has
been carried. Select a not too vigorous shoot
near the base of the old fruiting wood and
prune back to two buds that will produce
the next crop. Again, be ruthless with the
other growth.
Shorten them back to three to four buds from
the fruit. Cut out any rampant growth leaving
side growths near the base of the fruiting
arm
(2)
.
Next winter shorten back the growth
near the base of the fruiting arm to
two buds from the framework and deal with
any other over-vigorous crowding growth.
Repeat the summer tidy up as shown in
step 1
(3)
.
In winter select canes 30 to 40 cm apart and
cut them to two buds from the framework -
these will carry next year's crop. Prune all the
rest out. In summer remove vigorous vertical
growth and any cane thinner than a pencil.
This should still leave some canes growing
from the framework
(1)
.
In winter cut out completely the two-year-old
fruiting arm and shorten the selected
growths off the main framework to two buds
as in step 3. If the major fruiting arm has
extended to fill the space available, prune it
back to just in front of where it started to
grow the previous season
(4)
.
By the next summer the stubs cut in early
winter will have flowered and fruited.
