Kiwifruit Pronunciation: mí hóu táo.

Kiwifruit family Kiwifruit genus, sprawling deciduous twining shrubs. Eight meters, winter buds are very small, wrapped in the expanded petiole. Leaves alternate, dorsally tomentose, long-stalked, hard and glossy. The fruit is ovoid to hemispherical, hairy, pear-shaped and peach-colored, and is eaten by rhesus monkeys, hence the name "kiwifruit".

The kiwifruit grows in the forests of low mountainous areas at an altitude of 200-600 meters above sea level, and is usually found in tall grass thickets, shrub forests, or secondary open forests; it is distributed in the more northern areas, where it likes to grow in a warm, humid, and sunny environment with the wind at its back.

Kiwifruit seeding:

Choose large ripe fruits, picked after six or seven days of ripening, take out the seeds, washed with water, dried and wrapped in gauze, and then buried in a slightly moist sand, storage for 1-2 months, which can improve its germination potential and germination rate. Nursery land is best to choose a more shaded, guest guide drainage, more loose and fertile sandy soil. To apply enough fertilizer, irrigation of bottom water, bed width 1-1.2 meters, bed soil should be fine, leveling.

Late February to early March sowing is more suitable. Before sowing, special seeds mixed with some sandy soil, 6-8 grams of seed per square meter. Covered with a layer of 4-5 mm thick fine sandy soil, slightly suppressed. Covered with straw, watering some water, keep the soil moist, promote seed germination.

It is best to hold an arch-shaped plastic film shed over the seedbed to defend against rain impact, reduce water evaporation, but also to raise the temperature of the seedbed, which is conducive to the emergence of the seeds in a timely manner after the emergence of shade, watering, fertilizer, loosening of the soil, weeding, as well as interseeding and so on.