#75924
July 16th, 2006 at 01:17 AM
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I have heard the best is to layer them in the ground The problem is that mine is so tall it does not reach the ground :p Does anyone know?? Has anyone had any success? I do have seeds but I know it takes a long time to get them going (up to 15 years for the first flower) I have tried cuttings as well and they did not work out at all!! I do have a lot of people that wanted some!
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#75925
July 16th, 2006 at 01:41 AM
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rita, take some pots with soil in them, set them where the vines will reach, and layer them that way. the wisteria doesn't know what is ground and what is soil in a pot. it's all ground to it!
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#75926
July 16th, 2006 at 01:44 AM
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Thanks Jiffy I will try ... I am not sure it will reach though. Maybe if I get some kind of shelf out there!!
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#75927
August 27th, 2006 at 08:31 AM
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Jiffy... I wonder if a Wisteria cutting would root in soil? The lady at the nursery says no it won't. I bought a tree with a Wisteria twined around it and don't know if it should be tossed out or propagated somehow.
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#75928
August 27th, 2006 at 08:38 AM
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Rita, What about some hanging planters? You have it up on a trellis, don't you?
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#75929
August 27th, 2006 at 09:40 AM
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It will grow from a cutting it is just hard to do and sucess rate is less... I am doing that right now...I was trying to think of some way of doing that Triss... Maybe if I could get a board across... the thing about the trellis is it is leaning like// <---- this!! The vine is getting way to heavy... I am trying this and other than that the vine is almost to the ground so I can easily put pots around and layer it that way!!
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#75930
August 27th, 2006 at 09:50 AM
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the trellis is it is leaning like// <---- this!! Well now THAT is not good. More weight is proabably not a good thing then!
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#75931
August 27th, 2006 at 11:40 AM
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This // is my biggest problem! I am going to have to cut it out of the trellis probably by next year for sure..then find a much better support for it!
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#75932
August 27th, 2006 at 12:35 PM
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#75933
August 27th, 2006 at 01:30 PM
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well the rebar is not holding it down... Have to find something that looks nice too though... Something permanent.. steel concreted down.. :rolleyes:
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#75934
August 27th, 2006 at 01:41 PM
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Well I hope you fin something. There was a link somewhere that showed a HUGE wisteria and it was supported by a very cool trellis. Lemme see if I can find it.
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#75935
August 27th, 2006 at 01:47 PM
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This is not the one I was looking for but it is supposed to be the largest wisteria in the world. wisteria
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#75936
August 27th, 2006 at 02:25 PM
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I have seen that one... I am hoping to grow it into tree form.. the support will have to be strong though.. and my yard is not that big!! this thing is taking over!
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#75937
August 27th, 2006 at 02:42 PM
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I could handle that problem!
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#75938
August 27th, 2006 at 10:16 PM
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Triss, thanks for posting that link...that is stunning, to say the least. Maybe mine will look like that in a hundred years. lol! I wish now I had planted it in the middle of the yard instead of near the fence. It's a constant battle keeping it out of the neighbors yard but they love it when it blooms.
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#75939
August 28th, 2006 at 03:28 AM
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Holy smokes! You really gotta love your Wisteria to let it take over your house!! That is AMAZING!
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#75940
August 28th, 2006 at 04:09 AM
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It sure is. One of these days I want a wisteria over a gazebo but never over the entire house! A well reinforced gazebo!
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#75941
August 28th, 2006 at 02:31 PM
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Rosie, which one do you have? I have the Texas purple one, and it grows in a big clay pot. It bloomed well this year. I keep it as a giant bonsai.
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#75942
August 28th, 2006 at 09:38 PM
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Deborah, I don't know...it's just the old fashioned rambling lavender Wisteria. At one point, I was ready to chop it down because it had never bloomed. Found out after twelve years or longer that it was probably my fault for planting it under a giant Sycamore. Plus I pruned it way too often and was probably cutting off the buds for the next years blooms. I didn't prune it for a year after I lost the Sycamore and VOILA...I had lots of bloom this year! Next year should be even better! The size of the plant is deceiving in this picture. It is about 4'ft tall, 8' spread. For comparison, the remainder of that Sycamore you can see to the right...that's 4' across. It looks a little "nekkid" at the time of bloom...foliage starts afterwards. flowers%20and%20Plants/babcf488.jpg" alt="[Linked Image]" class="post-image" style="height:auto!important;max-width:100%!important;"/>
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#75943
September 14th, 2006 at 08:51 PM
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Wow...now THATS a wisteria! I planted mine in the fall of 2004 and it is growing well in its location, which gets morning to mid afternoon sun. However it has yet to bloom (which I was told was normal for wisteria), except I had one very small cluster of flower buds about 3 weeks ago... Does that make any sense to anyone? I thought it was supposed to flower in spring. Also when is the best time to prune it and how much pruning is best to get flowers?
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#75944
September 14th, 2006 at 10:52 PM
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I have an old mesh sattelite upside down ontop of the dog kennel. I stsrted a cutting of wisteria there. It has taken 3 yrs. to start growing, but finally getting there. Maybe I'll have some blooms this yr. Some of the cuttings had hair roots. It was hard to get them out of the ground. My sister-in-law was trimming hers. I'll try to get a pic. Be right back. Diane
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#75945
September 14th, 2006 at 11:50 PM
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OK it's hard to make out right now. The morning glories are crowding it. Here's a pic of inside the kennel. There's a tarp on top to keep rain out. (Though it leaks now) The satelite gives lots of shade. I tried to resize it. But it went really small. Photobucket is being weird.
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#75946
November 21st, 2006 at 01:00 PM
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I know this is far behind the last post, but I live in the south and me and hubby find cutting back the Wisteria each year is very helpful, I wish my camera was not broken, we make a bush out of the old Wisteria in our yard. Between cutting it back and training the runners back into the plant it makes a wonderful bush for us.Hopefully before it blooms again I will have a new camera.
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#75947
November 27th, 2006 at 05:14 AM
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Hi there, Can you grow a Wisteria from seed? And if so, when and how do you do this? Paulien
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#75948
November 27th, 2006 at 07:31 AM
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Susan, I've never heard of anyone making a Wisteria into a bush, but what a neat idea! I started one from seed last year, but I gave it away because I've seen some massive Wisteria around here & just have no place for anything that gets so big! Triss, did I give that to you? Maybe I want it back!
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