cocktail kiwi (Issai) leaf curl and brown spots

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Hello
I fairly recently bought a cocktail kiwi plant and it went in the ground about two weeks ago. I just noticed that its upper leaves are curling and there are some little holes and brown pigmentation on other leaves. Any suggestions? I didn't plant it out as quickly as would have been ideal. It was planted with a few handfuls of fresh potting compost.


I fairly recently bought a cocktail kiwi plant and it went in the ground about two weeks ago. I just noticed that its upper leaves are curling and there are some little holes and brown pigmentation on other leaves. Any suggestions? I didn't plant it out as quickly as would have been ideal. It was planted with a few handfuls of fresh potting compost.


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I too am trying to get this vine established. I have 2 - 1 in my allotment and 1 in my front garden. Both of them are looking quite ragged, with the one in my front garden having brown-edged leaves. I'm thinking this is likely due to me not watering enough as the plant is establishing and that it will eventually find its feet as we go into Autumn. It's been very hot, dry and windy here of late so I think it's had its work cut out :-) I gather other vines - eg. passiflora - can look a bit ragged until they get going. Please keep us updated and I will do the same.
The leaf lower down may even be realtively new growth?
I have no unshacked it from its plastic tags.
If it survives, it can have the run of a 30ft long fence with trellising.
It could just be yet another Suttons exotic that just doesn't really work in the UK outdoors. Still waiting for fruit (that ripens before dropping off) on my Chillean Guava plants some years on...
Or could an air frost have done this? (Lost all the leaves on my fig tree two years ago due to this, and come to think of it not had any figs since
V disappointed.