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Maintaining Your Plants 养护你的猕猴桃植物
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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.
保护你的猕猴桃不受动物伤害。即使所有其他条件都很完美，您的植物也可能会被各种害虫破坏。猕猴桃植物在完全成熟之前将特别脆弱。
▲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.
猕猴桃的叶子有时能吸引鹿。用篱笆或铁丝网将小鹿围在院子外，以保护小鹿的安全。
▲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.
▲阳光金果G3猕猴桃
猫对猕猴桃叶的反应与猫爪草相似。如果你曾经尝试过种植猫爪草，你可能知道附近的猫很容易破坏你的植物。如果你所在地区有户外猫咪，采取措施将它们赶出你的花园。示例策略包括建造围栏，在每个植物周围放置铁丝网，以及喷洒驱虫剂。
▲Golden kiwifruit▲
Unlike many other commercial fruit-bearing plants, kiwifruit do not have many insect enemies, so regular pesticide use is usually unnecessary.[16]
与许多其他商业果树不同，猕猴桃没有很多害虫，因此经常使用杀虫剂通常是不必要的
▲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]
将杆系在支架上。随着猕猴桃的生长，它将开始发出嫩芽。你需要训练这些嫩枝在支架上生长，将藤蔓连接到支架上。这将确保植物生长出强壮的“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。你应该每年修剪一次猕猴桃。修剪多余的藤条（长出树皮状皮肤的藤条）和任何不能由其支架支撑的侧枝。侧枝是向两侧延伸的树枝。你的猕猴桃藤将无法独自支撑这些嫩枝的重量，直到它们到达你的支架顶部（当使用T支撑系统时）。一旦藤蔓到达了棚架的顶部，它们将能够在上面水平生长。
▲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时间是冬末，而植物处于休眠状态。
雄性植物可以在开花后尽早修剪
▲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。猕猴桃植物通常会在种植后四到五年内开花。当这种情况发生时，你可以通过花朵中心的鲜黄色花粉覆盖的花药来识别雄性植物。雌性植物的中心有粘性茎（柱头），花的底部有白色子房。[19] 由于只有雌性猕猴桃能结果实，所以你希望每8或9株雌性猕猴桃中就有一株雄性猕猴桃授粉，而不是两株之间的平均分割。移除多余的雄性，并在雌性藤蔓之间留出相等的距离
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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▲
果实成熟后就收割。几年后（甚至是耐寒和超级耐寒猕猴桃的同一年），你的植物应该开始结果实。产量一开始可能很小，但随着植物成熟，通常每年都会增加。
猕猴桃通常在九月和十月成熟。如果到那时你所在地区通常会出现霜冻，你需要在水果成熟前收割，然后让它在冷藏条件下完成成熟
当猕猴桃的果皮开始变色（普通猕猴桃变为棕色）时，将其从茎部折断。另一种检查收获准备情况的方法是在水果样本中寻找黑色种子
▲redkiwifruit
▲Yellow kiwi orchard
