Maintaining Your Plants 養(yǎng)護(hù)你的獼猴桃植物 Grow Kiwifruit Step

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Maintaining Your Plants 養(yǎng)護(hù)你的獼猴桃植物
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Protect your kiwifruit from animals. Even if all other conditions are perfect, your plants may be destroyed by various pests. Kiwifruit plants will be especially vulnerable until they have fully matured.

保護(hù)你的獼猴桃不受動物傷害。即使所有其他條件都很完美，您的植物也可能會被各種害蟲破壞。獼猴桃植物在完全成熟之前將特別脆弱。

▲Golden kiwifruit▲

The leaves of kiwifruit plants can sometimes attract deer. Keep your young plants safe by keeping deer out of your yard with either a fence around it or chicken wire surrounding your plants.

獼猴桃的葉子有時能吸引鹿。用籬笆或鐵絲網(wǎng)將小鹿圍在院子外，以保護(hù)小鹿的安全。

▲Kiwi sapling▲

Cats respond to kiwi leaves similarly to catnip. If you've ever tried to grow catnip, you probably know that neighborhood cats can easily destroy your plants. If there are outdoor cats in your area, take measures to keep them out of your garden. Example strategies include building a fence, putting chicken wire around each of your plants, and spraying with repellents.

▲陽光金果G3獼猴桃

貓對獼猴桃葉的反應(yīng)與貓爪草相似。如果你曾經(jīng)嘗試過種植貓爪草，你可能知道附近的貓很容易破壞你的植物。如果你所在地區(qū)有戶外貓咪，采取措施將它們趕出你的花園。示例策略包括建造圍欄，在每個植物周圍放置鐵絲網(wǎng)，以及噴灑驅(qū)蟲劑。

▲Golden kiwifruit▲

Unlike many other commercial fruit-bearing plants, kiwifruit do not have many insect enemies, so regular pesticide use is usually unnecessary.[16]

與許多其他商業(yè)果樹不同，獼猴桃沒有很多害蟲，因此經(jīng)常使用殺蟲劑通常是不必要的

▲Kiwi packaging▲

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Tie shoots to supports. As your kiwifruit plant grows, it will begin to send out shoots. You will need to train these shoots to grow on the support by wiring the vines to the trellis. This will ensure that the plant will grow a strong "trunk" section.[17]

將桿系在支架上。隨著獼猴桃的生長，它將開始發(fā)出嫩芽。你需要訓(xùn)練這些嫩枝在支架上生長，將藤蔓連接到支架上。這將確保植物生長出強(qiáng)壯的“主干”部分

▲Kiwifruit planting▲

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Prune your plants regularly. You should prune your kiwifruit plants once a year. Trim excess canes (vines that have grown a bark-like skin) and any lateral shoots not supportable by its trellis. Lateral shoots are branches that go off to the sides. Your kiwifruit vines will not be able to support the weight of such shoots on their own until they've reached the top of your trellis (when using the T-support system). Once the vines reach the top of the trellis, they will be able to grow more horizontally across it.

▲Red kiwi fruit▲

定期修剪你的植物。你應(yīng)該每年修剪一次獼猴桃。修剪多余的藤條（長出樹皮狀皮膚的藤條）和任何不能由其支架支撐的側(cè)枝。側(cè)枝是向兩側(cè)延伸的樹枝。你的獼猴桃藤將無法獨(dú)自支撐這些嫩枝的重量，直到它們到達(dá)你的支架頂部（當(dāng)使用T支撐系統(tǒng)時）。一旦藤蔓到達(dá)了棚架的頂部，它們將能夠在上面水平生長。

▲Kiwi pollen▲

The optimal time for pruning female plants is late winter while the plant is dormant.
Male plants can be pruned sooner, right after flowering.[18]

修剪雌性植物的最佳時間是冬末，而植物處于休眠狀態(tài)。

雄性植物可以在開花后盡早修剪

▲Kiwi orchard▲

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Cull the male plants. Kiwi plants will usually flower within four or five years of planting. When this happens, you can identify the male plants by the bright yellow, pollen-covered anthers in the flower's center. The female plants have sticky stalks (stigma) in the center instead, and white ovaries at the base of the flower.[19] Since only the female kiwi vines produce fruit, you'll want one male plant to pollinate every 8 or 9 female plants, rather than an even split between the two. Remove the excess males and space the survivors an equal distance apart among the female vines.[20]

▲Yellow g3 kiwi

剔除雄性植物。獼猴桃植物通常會在種植后四到五年內(nèi)開花。當(dāng)這種情況發(fā)生時，你可以通過花朵中心的鮮黃色花粉覆蓋的花藥來識別雄性植物。雌性植物的中心有粘性莖（柱頭），花的底部有白色子房。[19] 由于只有雌性獼猴桃能結(jié)果實(shí)，所以你希望每8或9株雌性獼猴桃中就有一株雄性獼猴桃授粉，而不是兩株之間的平均分割。移除多余的雄性，并在雌性藤蔓之間留出相等的距離

▲kiwifruit▲

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Harvest your fruit once it's ripe. After a few years (or even that same year for hardy and super-hardy kiwi), your plants should start producing fruit. Yields may start out small but typically increase every year as the plant matures.
Kiwifruit usually ripens in September and October. If frosts typically happen by then in your area, you will need to harvest the fruit before it's ripe and let it finish ripening under refrigeration.[21]
Snap kiwifruit off at the stalk when their skin begins to change color (to brown for common kiwifruit). Another way to check for harvest-readiness is to look for black seeds in a sample fruit.

▲Golden Kiwi seedlings▲

果實(shí)成熟后就收割。幾年后（甚至是耐寒和超級耐寒獼猴桃的同一年），你的植物應(yīng)該開始結(jié)果實(shí)。產(chǎn)量一開始可能很小，但隨著植物成熟，通常每年都會增加。

獼猴桃通常在九月和十月成熟。如果到那時你所在地區(qū)通常會出現(xiàn)霜凍，你需要在水果成熟前收割，然后讓它在冷藏條件下完成成熟

當(dāng)獼猴桃的果皮開始變色（普通獼猴桃變?yōu)樽厣r，將其從莖部折斷。另一種檢查收獲準(zhǔn)備情況的方法是在水果樣本中尋找黑色種子

▲redkiwifruit

▲Yellow kiwi orchard