Kiwi Opitz Male Pollinator Live Rooted Starter Plant - Zones 4-8 - Actinidia deliciosa

Kiwi Opitz Male Pollinator Live Rooted Starter Plant Overview

The Kiwi Opitz Male Pollinator is a live rooted starter plant essential for successful kiwi fruit production. This vigorous climbing vine, scientifically known as Actinidia deliciosa, is a late flowering variety that thrives in USDA Hardiness Zones 4 through 8. It plays a crucial role in pollinating female kiwi plants, ensuring a healthy and abundant fruit harvest.

Key Features

• Vigorous vines growing between 12 to 20 feet, creating an attractive garden feature.
• Fragrant white flowers bloom in late spring and summer, adding visual and aromatic appeal.
• Adapted to full sun or partial shade conditions, offering flexible planting options.
• Low maintenance with insect and disease-resistant foliage, suitable for gardeners of all experience levels.
• Best used in combination with five female kiwi plants for optimal fruit set.

Growing Information

This male pollinator prefers well-draining, fertile soil and requires moderate watering, allowing the soil to dry slightly between waterings. Its hardiness across zones 4 to 8 makes it suitable for a wide range of climates. The plant is shipped as a live rooted starter, ensuring a healthy beginning for your kiwi vine.

Plant Condition Disclosure

Live plants may be shipped dormant, leafless, recently pruned, bare root, or partially defoliated depending on season, weather, and shipping requirements.

Natural variation in size, branching, foliage density, color, root structure, and overall appearance should be expected.

Important Note

You will receive a live starter plant (seedling/young plant). Listing photos show the plant at a mature stage for reference only. The actual plant size, shape, and appearance may vary and will be significantly smaller than the images shown.

Customer Notice for Live Plants

Live plants may experience normal shipping stress such as leaf loss, yellowing, wilting, or minor branch damage.

Please consider local weather before purchasing. Extreme heat, freezing temperatures, severe weather, shipping delays, or unattended packages may increase plant stress.

Due to the perishable nature of live plants, returns are generally not accepted. If there is an issue with your order, please contact us within 48 hours of delivery and provide the required photos for review.

• Photos of the shipping box
• Photo of the shipping label
• Clear photos of the plant from multiple angles
• Scratch test photos if the plant appears dead or dormant

Dormant, stressed, defoliated, wilted, or transit-shocked plants are not automatically considered dead.

Claims submitted without the required photos or more than 48 hours after delivery may not be eligible for review, replacement, or refund.