Viewing post #2207775 by ayshazen

DWRead said:Keith,

Yes, the fruit is edible, but I've heard it is not as tasty as supermarket kiwi fruit.

None of the five seeds I received from Georgia Vines was viable.

Last year I mail-ordered 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘱𝘰𝘭𝘺𝘨𝘢𝘮𝘢 'Pavel' from One Green World.
I was disappointed to find that my cats are not at all interested in it, even though they have responded to purchased silvervine powder from Japan.

There's an NIH article on a related species, 𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘪𝘥𝘪𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘤𝘳𝘰𝘴𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘮𝘢. The scientists found little or no amounts of cat attractants in their plants. That could be due to the immaturity of their plants, compared to established groves in the wild.

Perhaps my plant is just too young to contain much cat attractant.
Or, perhaps I should have purchased a female kiwi plant. I haven't seen any research on whether or not gender matters.

Ny understanding is that the most potent powder comes from a gall produced on the plant by an Asian insect (Pseudasphondylia matatabi), so it looks like we cant produce the galls here in the UK. Shame.

Chrissy