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Wisteria not growing

Freya3Freya3 Posts: 5
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I planted a new wisteria 2 years ago, and it got off to a good start shooting up to the top of my trellis and starting to go along the top... Until the end of the growth tendril broke and stopped. After that no more new tendrils were produced and now in its 3rd year it has still not produced a new tendril... How can I encourage it to restart growth? 
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  • aureliecelerieraureliecelerier Posts: 157
    Sorry @Freya3, do you mean the tendrils suddenly wilted and died in the second year and that in its 3 year it has not produced any new shoots? Is your wisteria in the ground or a container? Do you have new shoots appearing from below ground level while to top part has died back (I mean at the base of the plants if it makes any sense)? 
  • Freya3Freya3 Posts: 5
    No it was in the first year the main growth tendril reached the top of our garage and then turned brown at the top. Since then we have small green leaves all the way up the main stem but they are not as big and dark as my other wisterias. There have been no new tendrils for the two years since. It is planted in the ground. The base of the plant has no shoots or leaves for about the first meter of woody stem...
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    I have just planted wisteria alba this spring. Only had one six foot stem. The stockman said to cut it back by at least a third to a half when planting to encourage growth. Three months later lots of growth. He did say this needs to be done every year with all new growth to encourage flowering. Did you cut back at all the first year? If not that is probably the trouble. Hope this helps.
  • mandiraeclarkjtW9zp4omandiraeclarkjtW9zp4o Posts: 1
    Freya3 exact same thing happened to me.. did you ever get it growing again?

  • Freya3Freya3 Posts: 5
    mandiraeclarkjtW9zp4o said:
    Freya3 exact same thing happened to me.. did you ever get it growing again?

    Yes. It seemed counter productive to cut it back, but it picked up nicely.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    @purplerallim - don't cut your new growth back hard again.  If your initial pruning has produced more stems you need to start training them where you want them to go and doing the 7/2 cut.     

    This simply means cutting back all the new long whippy stems to 7 buds in July, the 7th month, and then reducing those to two buds along a stem in February, the 2nd month.  Keep it fed while it's establishing itself and water well especially in dry periods till it can get its roots down deep.   

    As it matures it will carry on putting out new stems you can train in or cut out according to where they are and which way they're headed.   We now have thick trunks on ours and keep them clean and bare to shoulder and head height so plants can grow under the one and we can pass under the other which is over our main doggy and gardening feet access to the house.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    This is an old thread @Obelixx
    Over the last two years it has been doing well. This year it didn't have many flowers,  but is putting on some growth. It tends to get whippy long growth, but very little side growth  so cutting in summer, but little to cut in spring.🤔
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Well who woke it up??

    It's the long whippy ones you've cut in summer to 7 nodes that you cut to two nodes in spring.  That said, far too many stems here to do all that counting so whippies get cut back to the main shape as they appear and in Feb we just cut the ones heading off into trouble behind the gutters and trying to get under the roof or cover the windows.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
  • purplerallimpurplerallim Posts: 5,287
    Mine is still filling the space, and is about half way @Obelixx so am cutting back those coming forward, or going skyward, and the ends of the whips to make it bushier.😁
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Sounds like a good plan.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
    "The price good men (and women) pay for indifference to public affairs is to be ruled by evil men (and women)."
    Plato
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