Hardy Kiwi Propagation - Follow Up on Serpentine Layering

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[@sleepybearpermaculture1936]

Thanks a MILLION for actually following up!

[@edibleacres]

Absolutely my pleasure.

[@dotsouthard2980]

You sure know how to maximize production, Sean! Great instructional video.

[@kristimckeon6967]

This is such a cool trick. I found your chanel because I started dreaming of growing edible perrenials in bulk to use on the property, share and sell to help facilitate food security in my home town. I was dreaming up names and this one came to mind so I checked to see if it was being used. I am super glad it lead me to your chanel. I hope one day I can come see your amazing property in person and buy plants directly from you. All of your experience and wisdom is more valuable than gold to me right now. Thank you, thank you for sharing it with people.

[@edibleacres]

So glad you found our channel and that there is enough value in the videos to be useful to you! Happy to have you with us Kristi :)

[@JB-yg3ew]

Watched and immediately went outside to try this.

[@IdeaFertile]

Thanks a lot for this video, I was just enquiring you about grapes in one of your last videos!! Very professional, very "human", very nice person you are! We absolutely LOVE your channel and the way you explain things. We've learned so much from you, especially how to understand Nature and some of its beautiful secrets. Thanks a lot, hope your channel grows and grows to let other people to understand and practice!! Best regards from Italy

[@Crina-LudmilaCristeaAuthor]

I can't wait to plant our grape vine and do this in time! I placed an order of lots of raspberry bushes, currants of different varieties, honeyberries, blueberries, asparagus (green and purple), an aronia, a wineberry, and strawberries. 🤗💛🤗 Thank you for sharing this!💛💛💛

[@edibleacres]

That is a whole lot of great plants on their way to you!

[@Crina-LudmilaCristeaAuthor]

@EdibleAcres And hopefully more trees in the spring as well. That lawn is going to be a food forest!🤗

[@jardinpetitbassin3787]

Very interesting! I just planted my first grape and kiwi vines! I’ll be doing the layering as well, thank you! Martine 🇨🇦

[@JB-yg3ew]

Meet too! This is sweet

[@Kowzorz]

Technical video suggestion: Try normalizing your audio volume in post to prevent your voice from booming when you lean over into the mic. Great idea to use a separate microphone in the first place. It makes a huge difference in your audio quality. Re: layering -- I'm reminded of greenhouses that strip and bury tomato vines once they produce and lower their heads so that they can grow more roots and keep the harvest at an accessible height.

[@heidimoore4981]

I so love your videos, thank you so much for taking the time and energy to do the wonderful things you and the extra time it takes to document it to share with us. ❤️❤️❤️

[@edibleacres]

Our pleasure!

[@PetalsonthePavingSlabs]

great stuff, and I like the way you have organised that nursery bed to maximise the layering.

[@edibleacres]

Learning as I go. Fingers crossed we end up with a huge number of arctic kiwis to plant out this fall!

[@rosehavenfarm2969]

Hi, Sean. Invaluable information, as usual, thank you. We found blackberries on our property, I think I'll go out today and bury the tips.

[@DrCorvid]

Thanks for the followup; getting bareroot kolomitka starts any day now :) ...Hardy Kiwi is sure getting popular...

[@branchingoutpermaculturewi4766]

ive heard of your channel for sometimes and just started watching now im a subscriber im learning alot so cheers mate

[@edibleacres]

So glad!

[@kiteclem35]

thank you very much for sharing your knowledge !

[@edibleacres]

My pleasure!

[@sdraven9954]

This is great info, thanks. I have grape cuttings now. I thought I should wait til fall to try anything with them.

[@3dreamsPermaculture]

Fantastic. Thx for sharing this valuable knowledge. 👍🌿🌳🌲

[@yolylacy5416]

Thank you very much. I love your videos.

[@Tennababy]

Exciting, gonna try this with my kiwi! cheers

[@edibleacres]

It's a promising method, hope it works!

[@meltoy8996]

Thank you for this Technique. i will try this in the Philippines.

[@edibleacres]

I bet it'll work wonderfully there.

[@StillSwirling]

Very cool!

[@JohnDoe_88]

I'll have to try that method forsure thanks

[@haileyvannood4339]

Thanks so much for the great video! Have you tried this method with Hops vines?

[@amy3458]

Excellent video series. Thank you, as always. Can you discuss trellis options for hardy kiwis? Do you allow yours to grow fully on those cattle panels? Would the fruit not weigh them down and force them over? How wide is you cattle panel trellis for these? Are there other options like a T style trellis you might recommend? What spacing should one use for hardy kiwis? In your previous video, you kindly said they tend to be “rambunctious”. LoL How far should they be spaced? Thank you so much!!! We greatly appreciate your wisdom and the sharing freely if it!

[@edibleacres]

I wonder how good the cattle panel setup is for kiwis. I have my doubts. I think they could hold a lot of weight, but pruning the kiwis will be quite hard with all the wire... T-style might be the move to explore. I can say I don't know for sure :) Just learning as I go. 8-12' would probably be a reasonable spacing.

[@amy3458]

EdibleAcres Thank you!

[@Gettin_Figgy_Wit_It]

Great work! Very inspiring. Does it matter if shoots are green, semi-woody or well lignified?

[@Crina-LudmilaCristeaAuthor]

Hi Sean! Could you and Sasha make a video about the Schisandra plant? I think you mentioned you are growing it. I can't find the video. It would be great to know how its berries helped you. I want to buy a plant or two or more. Take care! Warm hug to Zelda. 🤗💛🤗

[@jenniferturner7293]

Great information! You also mentioned propagation Apple and apricot trees, do you have a video for that?

[@bobbrawley2612]

He mentioned that? Apples are very hard . Impossible to propagate in my case from cuttings or airlayering. I take it apple rootstock can be propagated in stool beds but my solution was to order tiny rootstock trees $82 for twenty tree shipping cost included

[@edibleacres]

These are apple and apricot rootstocks that are being stool layered. Antovnaka apple and siberian apricot both should root in a stool bed as I described in the video. Thanks!

[@edibleacres]

If you search 'stool layering' on the video section you'll find videos that discuss how you can propagate apple root stock through stooling... Thanks.

[@jenniferturner7293]

@@edibleacres Thanks! I've never heard of this before so it will be good to learn. When you do this will it still take a tree several years to fruit?

[@edibleacres]

Yes

[@projectmalus]

Plant propagation always reminds me of that scene in Fantasia, where the sorcerer's apprentice multiplies the brooms. What do I do with them now??? Help, they're taking over!!!!

[@peterellis5626]

such a problem to have! ;)

[@franek_izerski]

This spring I layered some hardy kiwi after watching your last video about hardy kiwi propagation. I also planted some cuttings from a broken off branch (trying to layer) and one took. When is the best time to get it out of his little pot and into the ground, do you think? I understood that there are male and female plants with hardy kiwi. Any difference in propagation? Thanks for the follow up video.

[@edibleacres]

Male and Female should be same treatment. Best time to transplant from a garden bed is during your dormancy period (for us this is late October through early April). If they are in a pot, you can plant them out once you know there are well developed roots and keep them well watered and deeply mulched and they should thrive...

[@franek_izerski]

@@edibleacres, thanks for the information!

[@haileyvannood4339]

Thanks so much for the awesome info. You mentioned starting these the previous year in May. Would they be ready to separate from the mother plant the following May? Or is waiting for two growing seasons ideal

[@edibleacres]

Generally layering and stooling etc can be checked after one growing season, I like to check them out late winter / early spring. If no rooting I just give them another season :)

[@bobbrawley2612]

I tried doing that with a wild grapes vine for one season only the banked soil was fluffy soil and I keep it watered but up upon exposing the vine during the winter there was no root development so I just want to warn viewers that results depend on ones talent and not every experimental gardener will have sucess. But that's not the reason for this post Based on your demonstration of close planting of vegetables in a garden I'm experimenting with tightly planting of Crimson crisp watermelon. . I've planted the plants as close as a foot apart more to 2 feet apart not in a row but like an X Y plot. I keep the tenicals un attached so I can move the vines and oer a amature grape growers suggestion I remove the tenicals that are not near the fruit I do have space to spread the vines out radially from the plot if need be but I want to see if a jungle of watermelon vines can produce credible fruit

[@edibleacres]

It doesn't always work with every plant, but the risks are so incredibly low that it is certainly worth a try!

[@erikjohnson9223]

Muscadines will root this way if you weigh them down with a rock or chunk of concrete.

[@Berkeloid0]

If you leave the vines in place without separating them, do you end up with a more productive plant due to it having a larger root system, or does it not work like that?

[@wesleydavy7075]

Sean, I recently got hardwood cuttings of hardy kiwi and put them in a propagation bed to develop roots. I couldn't find much information on hardy kiwi cuttings, so I stuck them in the way I thought was right side up, but the buds are now breaking and they and pointed downward. Are these still able to become viable plants or should I try and take them out and replant them?

[@edibleacres]

I'd take a few and switch them to get the orientation correct, but the rest... try. them as they are and see what happens! I've never had great success with hardwood cuttings of kiwi, but always worth trying!

[@deborahslack3769]

Can you do an update of your experience with voles and are they hurting your kiwis?

[@edibleacres]

I see voles moving mulch around them, but I haven't seen any damages.

[@deborahslack3769]

EdibleAcres Thank you!

[@theworkforcedoctor5090]

Thanks for the follow-up. Could you leave the new rooted vines in place and if so, would it overwhelm the trellis?

[@edibleacres]

I could leave them, in fact thats whats happening this year! Hardy Kiwi on this trellis would absolutely smash it over time. I REALLY underestimated how fast and heavy it would grow! We'll have to design a different setup sooner than later.

[@theworkforcedoctor5090]

@@edibleacres what do you think of a residential deck as a trellis structure?

[@kerem7546]

does it take a full year for these vines to root or do results happen within a growing or resting season?

[@edibleacres]

Sometimes it happens within a growing season

[@trumpetingangel]

You just take advantage of what those vines like to do!

[@edibleacres]

Thats the idea quite often... Try to work with what nature is interested in doing

[@RandoDred]

Do you have a video showing how you harvest the clones?

[@edibleacres]

I'm not sure if we do. But we have a propagation playlist you may find of value. kzbin.info/aero/PLihFHKqj6JerMl-RTZRp1ZTgNDK9Oce-T

[@peterellis4262]

Stool layering apples? Does that work with varieties beyond Antonovka?

[@edibleacres]

Should work with most all apples as far as I know

[@garyalderson5132]

I have bought 2 types of actinedia one male and one female - the problem is that one plant is golden and the other atlas - will they fruit?

[@edibleacres]

I do not know those two types so I cannot say, sorry.

[@bethydurbin6796]

Cool. Want to try with my hineyberry and maybe my pink champagne current? Hugs.. Lol. I thought I fixed that typo...hahaha

[@edibleacres]

I hope it works with your hineyberry :)

[@erikjohnson9223]

European currants are usually easy by hardwood cuttings stuck in the dirt in fall. Air-layering may or may not work, but serpentine layering might be difficult if the branches aren't flexible enough.

[@SVtgr8]

thanks for sharing. can you serpentine gojis?

[@edibleacres]

Absolutely!

[@SVtgr8]

EdibleAcres: thanks for the reply! i’m going to try it TODAY! You are a great inspiration. Keep doing what you are doing.

[@StreetMachine18]

I would love to do this on my grapes but the rabbits ate all of the vines that were close to the ground

[@edibleacres]

Ah... that is a good point, something to consider for sure.

[@HoofInDenver]

I just stool layered goose and josta berries to take some cuttings with me to Denver in a month or two. Will that be enough time in your opinion?

[@edibleacres]

I don't think it will work within one month, but I could be wrong. If you don't see heavy rooting by then, I wouldn't cut them out and try to transplant as you may hurt them mid-season...

[@HoofInDenver]

EdibleAcres I’ll definitely call an audible when the time comes. The heat and humidity here in TN may just do the trick!

[@marissabueno438]

Do I get male and female plant from one kiwi fruit seeds?

[@edibleacres]

Seedlings that grow from seeds saved from fruit will be a mix of male and female...