I have a vigorous male kiwi fruit in full morning sun and some shade in the winter arvo. I have tried 3 female kiwi plants in close proximity over the years and all they have all died. How close to the male plant do the female plants have to be positioned for pollination as I am trying again? Also will bees travel through chookwire to pollinate if I plant the female plant in a chook pen?
Kiwifruit tend to be pollinated by bees. Bees will travel up to 5 km. That being said, you need the same bee to visit flowers on both plants to enact pollination. The closer the plants are to each other, the better. A few hundred metres would be fine. Twenty to fifty meters would be better. Immediately adjacent, best! Good luck with it.
My veggies are mostly in raised beds in the back of my plot but I have other edibles such as strawberries, artichokes, tamarillos, citrus and pepinos at the shaded side and the sunny front.
I have a vigorous male kiwi fruit in full morning sun and some shade in the winter arvo. I have tried 3 female kiwi plants in close proximity over the years and all they have all died. How close to the male plant do the female plants have to be positioned for pollination as I am trying again? Also will bees travel through chookwire to pollinate if I plant the female plant in a chook pen?
Kiwifruit tend to be pollinated by bees. Bees will travel up to 5 km. That being said, you need the same bee to visit flowers on both plants to enact pollination. The closer the plants are to each other, the better. A few hundred metres would be fine. Twenty to fifty meters would be better. Immediately adjacent, best! Good luck with it.
My veggies are mostly in raised beds in the back of my plot but I have other edibles such as strawberries, artichokes, tamarillos, citrus and pepinos at the shaded side and the sunny front.
Glad to see you are making great use of your space.
Happy gardening!