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Wisteria & Flowering

VoyagerxpVoyagerxp Posts: 651
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I've had this wisteria for about 4 years but its never flowered. It was only small when i brought it and it only started to put growth on the last 2 years. I had to cut it back a bit this year due to having a new shed on the pic below. Is there anything i need to do to get it to flower?



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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    Untangle it and spread it horizontally across the lowest wire, then up and long the next until you've run out of plant. Next year, it'll send shoot up from those horizontal shoots and when you start to prune those next Summer/ Autumn, those will form the spurs which will flower. 
    All the time it's growing vertically, you'll be lucky to have any flowers at all.
    Devon.
  • VoyagerxpVoyagerxp Posts: 651
    Thanks for the advice, your advice will be taken and i'll reroute the plant.
  • VoyagerxpVoyagerxp Posts: 651
    My plant has a lot of vine/ branches coming of the main plant. Do i bush them all together and sent the horizontally across the lowest wire or put one branch across the first wire and the next branch up and across the 2nd wire and so on?.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Yes.  As Hosta says, horizontal is best for encouraging flowers.  You also need to do a summer and winter prune to encourage the formation of flowering spurs - https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=242 for explanation
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  • Hostafan1Hostafan1 Posts: 34,889
    edited August 2018
    I'd put additional rows of wire between those you have there already, then you have twice as many rows to play with. 
    Once you've untangled it. start with the longest shoot and "train" that one and see how you get on, then "fill in" with the others to cover up the rows. You can double up, it'll do no harm.
    Devon.
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