Hardy Kiwi Plant — photo: Björn Appel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Hardy Kiwi Plant — photo: Björn Appel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fruit Starters

Hardy Kiwi Plant

Zones 4a–8bLive Plant
$12.00
$16.00
$12.00
(-25%)

Harvest handfuls of smooth grape-sized kiwis you eat skin and all, sweeter than the fuzzy supermarket kind and ready by the bowlful in fall.
Hardy Kiwi Plant

Pot Size: 6" Starter Pot
Quantity
Hardy Kiwi Plant — photo: Björn Appel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fruit Starters

Hardy Kiwi Plant

$16.00 $12.00
Hardy Kiwi Plant — photo: Björn Appel, CC BY-SA 3.0, via Wikimedia Commons
Fruit Starters

Hardy Kiwi Plant

$16.00 $12.00
Pot Size: 6" Starter Pot
Description

YOU NEED BOTH A MALE AND A FEMALE PLANT. Hardy kiwi is dioecious, and a lone female will flower beautifully and never set a single fruit, which is far and away the number one reason buyers report no crop. Plan on one male for every six to eight females planted within about fifty feet, give the vines a genuinely strong trellis or arbor because a mature plant is heavy and vigorous, and expect three to five years before the first real harvest. Shipped in a 6" Starter Pot, well-rooted from our Lineville, Alabama nursery.

Specifications
  • Mature size: Vines 15-25 ft long on a sturdy trellis; 8-10 ft wide
  • Grows best: Outdoors - USDA 4-8
  • Pet safety: The fruit is not known to be toxic to dogs or cats. Actinidia species contain compounds related to those in silver vine, so some cats show a catnip-like interest in the stems and may chew on young vines.
  • Sourcing: Nursery-grown by Wade Greens; ships healthy from our Lineville, Alabama nursery to the lower 48 states.
Care Instructions
  • Light: Full sun to light afternoon shade
  • Water: Regular deep watering, especially while fruiting
  • Soil: Wants deep, fertile, well-drained slightly acidic soil; it will not tolerate standing water at the roots.
  • Feeding: Feed with a balanced fertilizer in early spring and again in early summer once vines are established.
Growing Zone

Hardy in zones 4a–8b. Outside that range it can still be grown in a container and overwintered indoors.

Full colour is zones 4a–8b, where this plant is hardy in the ground. Lower 48 shown — that's where we ship. 2023 USDA Plant Hardiness Zone Map, via the PRISM Climate Group.

Questions & Answers

How big does it get?
Vines 15-25 ft long on a sturdy trellis; 8-10 ft wide

How much light does it need?
Full sun to light afternoon shade

Is it safe for pets?
The fruit is not known to be toxic to dogs or cats. Actinidia species contain compounds related to those in silver vine, so some cats show a catnip-like interest in the stems and may chew on young vines.

How is it shipped?
Packed to arrive healthy and shipped from our Alabama nursery to the lower 48 states.

Shipping & Returns

Ships to all 48 contiguous states from our farm in Lineville, Alabama.

What it costs

Based on your order total: $12.95 under $35 · $16.95 to $75 · $21.95 to $125 · free over $125.

Ship days

Mondays and Tuesdays only — see below.

Getting it ready

1–3 business days to pot up, water back and pack.

Where we can't go

Alaska, Hawaii, U.S. territories, P.O. boxes, and outside the United States.

Why we only ship Mondays and Tuesdays

A plant in a dark box is on a clock. Shipping early in the week means it reaches you before the weekend instead of sitting in a warehouse from Friday to Monday. It costs us a day or two of lead time and saves a lot of plants.

Practically: an order placed Wednesday, Thursday, Friday or over the weekend goes out the following Monday. We'd rather tell you that now than let you find it in a tracking number.

How long it takes once it leaves

Typical ground transit from Lineville, Alabama after the ship day. Estimates, not guarantees — weather and carrier backlogs happen.

  • 1–2 days Alabama, Georgia, Tennessee, Mississippi, Florida, South Carolina, North Carolina, Louisiana, Arkansas, Kentucky
  • 2–3 days The rest of the Southeast and Midwest, Texas, the Mid-Atlantic and the Northeast
  • 3–5 days The Plains, the Mountain West and the West Coast

Tracking is emailed the moment your box is scanned.

If something arrives unhappy

A little leaf drop or travel stress is normal and usually sorts itself out within a week or two of settling in. If a plant arrives genuinely damaged, email support@wadegreens.com within 48 hours of delivery with a photo of the plant and the box, and we'll make it right.

Plant Traits

The facts that decide whether it takes root, in the order that matters.

Sunlight

Full Sun (6+ hrs)

Six or more hours of direct sun. With less it stretches toward the light and flowering thins out.

Water

Moderate

Water when the top inch of soil is dry. Evenly damp, never standing wet.

Mature Size

3-6 ft

Where it settles once established. Plan the spacing for this, not for the size it arrives at.

Foliage

Deciduous

Drops its leaves in fall and leafs back out in spring. Bare in winter is dormant, not dead.

Works As

Edible Garden

Traits

  • EdibleSome part of it is grown to be eaten. We grow without pesticides, so it needs nothing more than a rinse.

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