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Wisteria no flowering

creation1creation1 Posts: 2
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I have a wisteria which has been planted for 5 years, it has never flowered although every year it looks very strong what can I do. I have a south facing garden. I water it periodically  but I don't overwater. Please advise thanks

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  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @creation1 Was it in flower when you bought it? It is a plant that is best purchased in flower. The sad fact is sometimes they never flower. Welcome.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • creation1creation1 Posts: 2
    why is that
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    edited June 2022
    If it is seed sown it may take years to mature enough to flower.   If it was bought as a grafted plant it should flower more readily but that will depend on how you are growing it - pot or in the ground, it's feeding and watering and also its pruning.

    In July you should be pruning all new whippy shoots back to 7 nodes/buds/leaf joints from the main stem except for any shoots you want to grow on to become part of the permanent structure.   In February, you prune those sale shoots back to 2 buds/nodes.   That should encourage flower buds to form.
    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
  • PosyPosy Posts: 3,601
    Does it develop any flower buds but lose them? When our wisteria was a baby the buds all dropped for the first two years. I worked out that it was being caught in bitter easterly winds, just as the buds were forming and next year chucked a bit of fleece over it for a couple of weeks. Bingo! Once it was a little older and more established it stopped needing protection and flowers like mad. I don't prune it properly or regularly but it doesn't mind at all.
  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @creation1 A friend has one, no flowers until year four, pruned as @Obelixx has kindly explained.This year pruned in late March not a single flower.
     I asked if it had any flowers when purchased as the problem could be related to pruning.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    I would have thought pruning in late March would be too late.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • GardenerSuzeGardenerSuze Posts: 5,692
    @Lyn Yes I agree my friend only mentioned it a few weeks ago when she felt sure there would be no flowers. I am sure she will be interested to read this thread.
    I have worked as a Gardener for 24 years. My latest garden is a new build garden on heavy clay.
  • ObelixxObelixx Posts: 30,090
    Have to admit the 7 and 2 node pruning régime doesn't happen here because I have 2 mature wisterias which are just too big to count.  I now just prune the whippy bits back to the main shape as they appear all summer and the winter prune involves cutting out any stems diving under gutters or roof.

    I did buy a small one with long, almost white racemes a year after we moved here and it did get the 7 and 2 node pruning as it was grown on in a pot for 3 years.   Now it's planted out and being encouraged along a  fence so some stems are tied in to get as long as they can whilst ones pointing the wrong way get cut back.   That's working well and it flowers as it it should.
    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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