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Multiple wisteria stems - how to manage

gerrard.kategerrard.kate Posts: 22
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I’d be really grateful for some advice on my two year old wisteria! I’m hoping to train it up the side of the house.

It arrived with a single stem twisted around a cane, which continues to be the main stem. However since then it has produced two further stems, which I haven’t pruned and are still whippy green growth with leaves. Should I cut them out (to keep a single stem), or should I be keeping them and twisting them around the main stem? If keeping them, should I rub out where the leaves are growing so the stems remain bare?

Thank you!
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  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Can we have a photo?   

    You need branches coming off the main stem in order to train them across the house but you don't want them starting too low down.  I would get rid of that cane asap as it will end up embedded in the main trunk as it grows.

    We have inherited 2 wisterias in this garden.  One sends out side branches much lower down than the other as it is against a blank garage wall.  The other is by a door and a window so branches higher up.   We rub or cut off any shoots that appear lower down.
    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
  • gerrard.kategerrard.kate Posts: 22
    Oh my goodness Obelixx I’ve just come back to the forum since I posted this and realised I didn’t respond to you, sincere apologies: I did exactly as you suggested (took the cane out and rubbed out the lower branches) and the whole thing is doing much better now - thank you so much. And I’ll include photos in future!
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Good to know @gerrard.kate.  I'll try and remember totake photos of ours whilst still naked so you can see the structure.
    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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Im sure your structure is remarkable @Obelixx, but don’t catch cold ... it’s wintry out there 🥶 

    😉 

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Nope.  Sunny and mild here for now.
    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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited January 2021
    I think you’ll still need a scarf and socks at the very least @Obelixx  😉 ... January anywhere in the northern hemisphere rarely has suitable temperatures for total nudity . I’ll get my knitting needles out 🧶 

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    But cold bathing is supposed to be good for you @Dovefromabove so why not cold sunbathing?
    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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    In one word ... chilblains 😭 

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





  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Haven't had those since I were a nipper!
    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
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    Oh I have! and extensive Equestrian Paniculitis ... if @punkdoc searches through the medical textbooks he may see photos of my thighs and buttocks ... they were just what the researchers needed ... apparently  🙄 

    https://www.dovemed.com/diseases-conditions/equestrian-cold-panniculitis/

    https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamadermatology/article-abstract/541352

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





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