How we prune a Wisteria into a free standing tree
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- Опубликовано: 21 сен 2024
- Beautiful Wisterias are usually grown as a climbing plant against a wall or over a pergola - but with some special care, pruning and support they can be trained into a graceful flowering tree - in this video Roger shows us a Wisteria tree which he has been training for several years.
We join him in mid-winter as he prunes the new growth from last year to encourage short flowering shoots.
Hi Roger I’ve got mine in a pot and I’m planning on making it into a tree. Great vid 👌
Hi Harold - hope you are well - another year another adventure in the garden hey?!
Could I prune it early April if I missed the boat for February? I see buds but no leaves or flowers yet...I have amethyst falls cultivar in a pot
Hi, thanks for your comment and excellent question ... not easy to answer exactly because every plant is different (age of plant / position / local climate etc) ... I can say that I have pruned / trimmed later than February (well into March) but would be careful not to cut away any flower buds. In the end a light prune in April (as you would in Feb) should not do much harm to the plant . If it needs more of a cut back maybe wait until the late summer prune - does that make sense?
Hello Roger👋
This is Nancy from Hudson, NY, USA.
I need help pruning my Wisteria trees.
Should a prune off ALL the lower branches? Best to do in late winter or early spring?
Any suggestions would be helpful!!
Thanks
Hi Nancy from Hudson!
Thanks for getting in touch, it would really help to be able to see your trees, are you able email us a couple of photos? to rogercrookes@lcsuk.net
Generally speaking if you are doing any major pruning then it may be best done in winter, but let’s have a look at your plants first if you can get a couple of photos?
Just emailed photos.
Thanks!!!!
@@NancyCostello-fj3lq great!
Thanks, unfortunately I am not able to access that email for a couple of days but I will get back to you in a couple of days time if that’s okay 👍
That’s fine. Thanks again!!
I have 3 blue Wisteria vines that I need to train into trees. I had no idea they had to be trained. Help please!
Hi - thanks for your comment, and apologies for the delay in replying (for some reason I did not get a notification from RUclips to let me know you had left a comment so I have only just read it)
Here is a link to the 2nd video about training your wisteria into a tree form ruclips.net/video/EkoKJ6lAm8M/видео.html
I assume you have viewed the video on which youi left the comment - the idea is that by watching the first video and the step 2 video that should help you with the basics ... did they help?
Is there anything else we can do to help?
Where do you live ... UK?
Hope to hear back from you, and helping where we can, thanks!
I bought a 6 foot wisteria tree form that’s pretty much straight. The top hasn’t been cut off. I want it to be a big nice wisteria tree. Do you have any suggestions what I should do? I know I need a lot of support for it
Hi Jacob, thanks for your comment - sounds like a good plan.
Yes get a good thick stake in before your plant your wisteria if you can.
Once you have planted it alongside the stake use 2 or 3 thick tree ties along the stem to hold it as straight as possible alongside the stake… then let it start growing in spring and summer, water the soil if we get some warm dry weather.
I would think about cutting off any shoots which appear lower down the main stems, as you will probably want a clear stem with any side branches appearing higher up the stem to give you the traditional tree shape?
here is another of our wisteria pruning videos - this time showing the difference between winter and summer pruning - hope it helps? ruclips.net/video/ZAJBB-B5I14/видео.html
@@rogthegardener1 thank you so much for the tip! Yes I want a more traditional tree shape! Can’t wait to let it grow and let it become a beautiful tree. One last question, will I need any support for branches? I know this plant is more of a vine plant or will I not have to worry about that as it gets older and prune the branches it should thicken over time and not need support for branches right?
@@rogthegardener1 oh yeah I have another question🤪 I’ve been doing a lot of research of all the varieties of wisterias, I absolutely love all of them I now have a couple macrostachya and few sinensis and a frutescens. I also want to own some Japanese ones (Floribunda). I live in the US and can’t find any online and I don’t think any of my local nurseries have any of them. Do you know where I could possibly buy some Japanese wisterias?
@@Jacob-kv5be good question - our tree featured in the video has not needed an extra support for the side branches ... so far, but it is a good point and worth checking over he years to see if they need any extra support ... I can only think of one Wisteria, that I have seen, which needed extra supports for the side branches - it was a very very old plant maybe around 100 years old in New Zealand .. so may you can let me know in 100 years time how you have got on?!
Hi Roger! I planted my wisteria (Wisteria Floribunda) two years ago. Last year, there were so many new shoots coming from the ground... I didn't know what to do so I twisted them around the main trunk. I wonder if I could cut them far back, because all of its leaves are covering the main trunk and it seems so wrong. What should I do? Also, how can I encourage my tree to grow taller and have more clearance underneath it? Thank you so, so much. I am really hoping you can give me some advice!
Hi Cristiane - thanks for your comment.
So, if I understand correctly you want to shape your wisteria to have less shoots / branches at the base and more growth at the top.
I have just been pruning an older Wisteria this week which had many shoots / branches growing from the base - and I cut them all out right back to t he base of he plant so that all the energy is going to the top of the plant. so those shots from last year which are twisted around the main stem you could consider either cutting them out completely down to their base or maybe trying to 'untwist' a few of them and allow a few of them to thicken and become main upright branches (there is possibly a slight risk if you only have 1 main upright trunk because if that 1 dies you have nothing else left - if that makes sense?) maybe 2 or 3 main trunks will be better ... having said that I have seen some very happy wisterias with just 1 main trunk ... you never know what might happen in the future.
How ever many main trunks you have I would cut out any other new shoots that may appear in years to come from the lower plant of the plant this will encourage new shoots from the top which I think is what you want?
does this help?
@@rogthegardener1 It makes totally sense! Thank you so much for your reply!
If I did not prune in winter, should I wait until summer or can I still do it in mid April, zone 7
Hi, thanks for your comment - sorry I am not familiar with the weather in your zone compared to the UK ... but I am guessing it is similar to here ..and that the Wisterias will be in flower soon (ours have big flower buds) so in this area I would probably wait now and do the summer prune next - do you have any flower buds?
How old is this wisteria? Its got a nice thickness on it
Hi thanks for your comment, I think that must have been about 8 years and was about 2 years old when it when in ... so about 10 years old in total....