Fruit & Berries
Kiwifruit
Needs a strong frame, a cold winter, and usually a male and female vine.
Actinidia deliciosa · Fruit & Berries · Perennial
When to plant Kiwifruit in Australia
Sourced timing by broad climate zone. Zones with no sourced timing for an action are left out rather than estimated.
- Plant out seedlings
- Cool, Temperate — Jun, Jul, Aug, Sep
Australian planting guide by climate zone
Sourced guidance by broad climate zone, shown as fixed months, timing relative to sowing or planting, or written growing advice. Your GrowCal calendar applies your regional growing profile, so its dates may sit earlier or later than the months below.
Why
Kiwifruit requires several hundred hours of winter chill, which the tropics never accumulate. Vines will not break dormancy evenly or set a crop without artificial chilling, so it is not a home crop in tropical Australia.
| Action | Cool | Temperate | Subtropical | Tropical | Arid |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Plant out | Jun, Jul, Aug, SepDetailsKiwifruit vines are deciduous and dormant over winter, which is the best time to plant them. Potted vines can go in at other times, but they establish best from winter into early spring. | Jun, Jul, Aug, SepDetailsKiwifruit vines are deciduous and dormant over winter, which is the best time to plant them. Potted vines can go in at other times, but they establish best from winter into early spring. | Climate guidanceDetailsKiwifruit needs a substantial block of winter chill to break bud evenly. In the subtropics that chill is not reliably available, and growers there resort to shading, evaporative cooling or dormancy-breaking sprays. | Not recommended in this climate | No sourced timing currently shown |
| Feed | No sourced timing currently shown | No sourced timing currently shown | No sourced timing currently shown | Not recommended in this climate | No sourced timing currently shown |
| Prune | No sourced timing currently shown | No sourced timing currently shown | No sourced timing currently shown | Not recommended in this climate | No sourced timing currently shown |
| Pest check | No sourced timing currently shown | No sourced timing currently shown | No sourced timing currently shown | Not recommended in this climate | No sourced timing currently shown |
| Harvest | No sourced timing currently shown | No sourced timing currently shown | No sourced timing currently shown | Not recommended in this climate | No sourced timing currently shown |
Only sourced growing and timing guidance is shown.
Zone notes
- Subtropical: Kiwifruit needs a substantial block of winter chill to break bud evenly. In the subtropics that chill is not reliably available, and growers there resort to shading, evaporative cooling or dormancy-breaking sprays.
About this data
This schedule is part of GrowCal's preview horticultural dataset — useful as general guidance, and still being validated. Conditions vary with your soil, aspect, frost and variety. Read more on the data & methodology page, or send us a correction.
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