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Sick wisteria ☹️ Help please !

kaia_liiskaia_liis Posts: 2
in Problem solving
This are 2 wisterias I have both of them look sick . First one is planted about month ago and leafs are turning brown and falling off . 

Second one planted begging of summer leafs are turning brown and something is obviously eating it . 

I have checked every leaf of my plants 🤦‍♀️ And I can’t see any bugs or insect on it , except there is some ants running on back wall . 

Soil is mix with compost and it’s moist but not to wet . This are in very big planter 6m long and planted 2m between wisterias. 

I’m glues is it mosaic vines virus or something else and I can’t indefinitely what could eat it leafs like that as I stared my plant 15 minutes 🙈 checked everything leaf and can’t see anything . 

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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    How deep is the planter?   

    The brown leaves indicate thirst.   My pair have had to contend with serious droughts for the last 4 years and yet never have brown leaves like that.    Have you checked for scale insects?  https://www.rhs.org.uk/advice/profile?pid=508 

    They like a good deep root run and also plenty of space.  I think 2 in a 6m distance is ambitious because they do get huge.    I have two, inherited with this garden, that I keep to about 8 and 10 metres long by pruning in July.   Neighbours have one over an arch and gateway into their garden but one end has "escaped" and is headed off along their hedge and about 30 m long.
    Vendée - 20kms from Atlantic coast.
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  • kaia_liiskaia_liis Posts: 2
    planter is about 45cm deep, I was checking scales before couldn’t see anything like that . 

    I planted them 2m between as I wanted to direct them grow different directions I got about 12m wall to cover and fence after that . 
  • Lizzie27Lizzie27 Posts: 12,494
    I'm sorry @kaia_liis, I don't think 45 cms is deep enough for wisteria at all. It does need to be planted in the ground to grow well.  
    North East Somerset - Clay soil over limestone
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited July 2020
    I agree with @Lizzie27 ... wisteria roots need to go down several feet ... wisteria wants to grow into a huge plant. It’s not a plant for a container. 


    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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