He said that, if anything, it would be to prune even more. This plant just grows so rampantly it defies all the rules. Pruning expert Lee Reich "The Pruning Book"; Taunton Press goes even further; explaining that some bloom lovers cut back the rampant shoots every two weeks during the summer. So if you're already pruning, try a little more lack of tenderness. But if you haven't yet pruned, begin with a July and January schedule. Adrian and I agreed that such a strategy makes a lot of Darwinian sense.
Plants don't really need to flower if they're living in perfect conditions, but they must try and pump out some posies in an attempt to reproduce if they're stressed by something like constant trimming. Or the final straw: The legendary root pruning. Before they give up the ghost and pull up the plant, wisteria owners who provide enough sun and have exhausted their pruning options might want to drive a sharp shovel eight to ten inches into the ground about a foot and a half out from the trunk to slice into some of the roots and give the plant a shock.
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I grow white-flowered W. I grow my wisterias as trees, rather than climbers. Which is easy to do, but requires a strict pruning regime and a little help at the start.
My trees have two-metre trunks, topped with down-curved branches at least two metres across. And because they grow in sun, and are pruned each August and January, flowering is prolific. This method is straightforward but takes a year or two to achieve.
Purchase a fairly mature plant, preferably in flower, so you know you have a reliable variety. You'll need a strong stake to support the developing trunk. I used metal but a stout wooden post would do just as well. Your purchased plant will probably have several main stems attached to upright canes. When you plant, select from one to three of the best stems and remove the rest.
Bind them gently to the supporting stake. In time, these stems will thicken and merge to form a strong trunk. Mine have twined round their supports and will eventually engulf them. Keep the trunks free of side-shoots. The 'tree' tops will produce lax branches in their first season and you must train these, either onto a parasol-shaped supporting frame, or better still, without support as evenly-spaced, branches.
You can persuade the branches to curve downwards by hanging lengths of jute string from their ends and anchoring these with the gentlest of tension, to the trunk. That will flex the branches just enough to develop a curve. After the first year, new side shoots should be pruned to within seven buds of the main curved branches, each August, and further shortened to three buds, in January.
The results are spectacular when masses of flowers hang gracefully below the emerging foliage. What's more, achieving such a professional-looking display appears far more difficult than it really is. Spring is here and plants are growing at full speed.
But, now the greatest threat to gardens is late frost. Plants have tender young shoots which, at temperatures close to freezing, can be killed. You can't do much to protect large shrubs or trees - but these will survive a late frost, even if their blossoms and foliage are singed. Young, tender plants, however, are especially vulnerable and will benefit from protection. If a frost is forecast, spread a light cover over newly planted varieties. Horticultural fleece is best for this and easy to handle.
It's also soft and does little damage to delicate, new plants. But failing that, old net curtains, thin plastic sheeting or even newspaper can provide similar protection. But the information that follows assumes that you're already growing Chinese wisteria vines, which are immensely popular. How do you get them to quit dragging their feet and come into flower? There are at least four approaches you can try they are not mutually exclusive, so you may wish to try more than one , involving:.
The world's largest known wisteria was planted in in Sierra Madre, CA. It measures more than an acre in size and weighs tons. First of all, try applying a fertilizer high in phosphorus the middle number in the NPK sequence on fertilizer bags in early spring. It's important to note that wisterias are in the pea family, which means that they are nitrogen fixers.
They don't need your help in obtaining nitrogen. In fact, excess nitrogen will only make your vine run more rampant and exacerbate the problem of "all foliage, no flowers. Also, try pruning a couple of times each year in early summer after blooming and during dormancy in winter to stimulate budding for next year.
Regarding the latter pruning, NC State University advises that you, "Prune back old growth to three to four buds in late winter. If after years of failure in trying to get wisteria to bloom, you feel like you have nothing to lose and don't mind becoming more aggressive with your pruners, try pruning even more often.
Some of the best success stories regarding getting Chinese wisteria to flower have touted a more-or-less constant pruning back of most of the new growth. A vigorous vine, it's almost as if it wants you to challenge it—and rewards you—if you do with a gift of flowers.
Root pruning in late fall is sometimes suggested too as a stimulant for stubborn vines that just seem to refuse to blossom!
One home gardener reported that she had a Chinese wisteria that failed to bloom during the first two years she had it — which, she subsequently learned, isn't all that unusual in fact, you'd be beating the odds if you managed to have flowers on a Chinese wisteria within its first five years. But she also found out that there's a way to stimulate the vine into blooming.
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