Wisteria virgin
Avie baby
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Can't get these photos in the right way round, (bad at IT too.)
THE PROBLEM IS:
I was lucky enough to bring a beautiful wisteria Harlequin home from our holidays in France , but on planting there were no obvious stems that could be trained. I know now that these stems had their ends damaged, which obviously gives me nothing to train laterally. Now unfortunately the tip growth was damaged, some time before I brought it home as it has two leaders. At the meeting point of these branches there is now a stem driving upwards and I am wondering should I use this as the main stem . I also don't know what to do about the lack of stem growth to allow me to train outwards.
As must be very obvious by now, I am new convert to wisteria and I have no clue as to what to do now.
Sorry this is a bit long but I really need some sort of a miracle to move forward with this. Am I going to have to dig it up?
really need some in depth advice on wisteria if anyone wants to help, please.
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Give it time. The growth stems don't show immediately particularly if it's getting over being in a new spot in the ground. I planted mine from south facing pot to north facing ground (against a south facing fence) and it took a few weeks but now it is taking off. I'd wait until Spring and see what it's doing...it looks healthy enough.
Hi there Dubloon,
I'm so relieved, it is against a south facing fence, so I think it should enjoy that. It's been there since the end of June, do you reckon I should use that new upward growth at the point where there are two leaders, as the new leader?
By the way, thanks for taking time to read my problem and give me an answer.
Should I leave any pruning until the beginning of Spring and see what at looks like at that point?
Hi. Three years ago I planted a wisteria on a south facing wall and got good leaf and flowers.
Last year it got even better so I did not prune at all.
This year it improved again and after all the flowers had finished a fortnight later a second
flush appeared. I would therefor agree with Dubloon and leave it and see what happens.
Wisterias can surprise you when your not expecting it.
Good advice Dubloon. Don't worry Avie Baby, soon you will be posting a thread on how to keep it under control. We are very late into the season, give it time and I bet next spring you will see new growth.
Last edited: 21 August 2017 18:35:44
Many thanks to you all, in all honestly I wasn't sure about forums, but you have been great. I am now extremely hopeful I will end up with a beautiful wisteria.
Thank you
I wish
thanks everyone for your responses but any further advise will be made more than welcome I can only learn?
Need a little more advice please. The lateral, the only one has been broken at the end so it is not doing anything. The lateral on the left is actually a new shoot as that lateral had also been damaged, so I am trying to encourage new growth down that wire.
The little branch st the bottom left of the main stem, I was wondering if I should cut it off, because that was also damaged and is now doing nothing.
Look forward to any replies, thanks
Are you saying I should nip out the new growth, which is actually quite long and if you look, you can see it being wound up that pipe support, and it has been growing very quickly and has now passed the damaged tip.
thanks for your help