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Wisteria brown leaf tips terminal end of vine?
Becd
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Hi, my wisteria is mostly healthy and producing new shoots, however the leaves on the terminal leading shoot that I'm hoping will produce shoots are pale in colour with brown tips. Rest of plant is lush and green. Any ideas??
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Any chance you could post a photo of this? Doesn't sound like any issue other than a push for growth in warmer temperatures and sometimes leaves are not green until they mature more. Brown tips can sometimes indicate cold drying winds affecting young shoots, but again, all part of growing conditions.
Last edited: 13 January 2018 12:01:10
Many thanks for your reply. Ive attached these two pics - we are about 6 weeks into summer and the leaves are from the first flush after flowering - so are mature. We haven't had any cold winds....and the rest of the plant is really green and happy. Its only this part of the vine that is pale - it also seems to be the least active growing part of the plant (of course its the bit where I need more shoots lol!)......??
ANd here is a (terrible) picture of the whole vine - circle on left contains pale terminal end, circle on right contains healthy part.
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Whereabouts are you? Could your wisteria be suffering from drought?
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
South-west Western Australia. Yes - it could be that it needs watering....I was just a little nervous as I had read similar symptoms to be the result of too much water or too much fertiliser (salt)....
Its certainly dried off a bit here - and perhaps the fact that the worst parts are at the extremities of the plant (and the main part is actively putting out new shoots) might mean the water isn't getting as far??
Ill try bumping up its watering regime!
thanks
bec
I have a near identical dilemma, new to Wisteria, broadly healthy with lots of shoots however on terminal end seeing brown tips and unsure what might be causing. Located in regional Victoria and so it has been warm and being watered however unsure if its lack of water reaching extremities or too much water/salt related.
I can't help you with the problem, but my post will bump the thread up and someone else might be able to help.
@Obelixx grows wisteria successfully, so she might see this and respond.
I live in west central Scotland - not where that photo is...
I have a new one in full sun and deep soil and it's grown leaps and bounds since I freed it from it's pot and planted it 18 months ago.
I suggest you try watering it as extreme heat and drought will stress wisteria. One very old, mature one here in France which was the longest in Europe, has died this year after the extremes of our last summer's heatwaves and drought. The other thing I would look for is damage to the stem below the point of the dried leaves as that can impede the flow of sap.
it could also be caused by a chain that’s wrapped around the roots. I’ll include some photos incase it’s helpful.
The brown tips won't recover but if you can fix what's causing them new leaves should be fine.
There are rules for pruning a well trained wisteria like yours. In the northern hemisphere, we take new long whippy stems back to è leaf noded in July and then, in winter wen the stems are bare and before growth starts again, we take those stes back to 2 leaf nodes in February.
You'll need to do the same sort of thing in the equivalent months in Oz and keep an eye on stray stems heading around and under gutters and soffit boards or under roofing.
My two inherited wisteria are too big to count each individual stem in summer so I just cut them back to the main framework and I do this as I see them from July through to September. Much easier to a formative prune in winter when stems are bare and I can see what's going on.