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    you're welcome :mrgreen: :mrgreen: :mrgreen:

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    The original chinese gooseberries from china are only small little critters, only the sixe of say acorns. They were imported to NZ in the 19th century and cultivated for home gardens etc into much larger varieties. It turns out that some cuttingsfrom one particularly good vine from our old home farm, Tangotahi, formed an important link in developing even better strains in the 70s... the boffins came over and took bulk cuttings of our vine (long since passed away) to breed up and use in developing the breed here.

    No-one in NZ dreamed of actually selling Chinese Gooseberries when I was a kid... they were semi wild on farms and over back fences in town gardens everywhere. When they thunk up the name "Kiwifruit" we damn near fell off our chair laughing.

    The main centre for the development of commercial kiwifruit was Te Puke (pron Tea Pookie as is "bookie", not Tea Puke, as in "unfortunate case of poisoned Earl Grey") but it is now all over the place, basically anywhere pretty much frost-free.

    Every year there are huge truck and trailer units of "second" grade kiwifruit hauled around the countryside to be dumped as cattle feed, helluva waste really.

    Didn't know that about the name being stolen by the chinese (bloody asians eh! :-) hehehehehe, oops!), we were told it was because kiwifruit was now such an international name, everyone from chile to israel uses it, that they wanted to rename our product Zespri to raise it's profile internationally. I can believe the thing about name registration though, sounds about right.

    cheers,
    Stu.

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    Stu Mate,

    Have you ever thought about writing a book?

    Good informative posting there.

    Diny

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