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23-Jul-2002
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bonsaiTALK Craftsman
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newly aquired wisteria
Here is a pic of a small (about 12-15 inches) wisteria i have just aquired. It looks quite good already but i am open to any suggestions as i have never used wisteria before. Any ideas.
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23-Jul-2002
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Wisteria Help
Hey there, I can help you out a bit, as I have several wisteria that I have been training for a little while. I have also dug up/and purchased some older ones as well. Its obviously first depends on what style you are trying to achieve. During the first five or so years of life for the tree, it will not flower and it's terribly stressful for it too do so. After a week or so of letting the leaves get to 6 to 8 leaves per sublet, you need to trim it back to 2 to 3 leaves. Unless of course that's the direction you'd like your branch to go. Keeping the leaves cut back will increase the vigor elsewhere. The strength will go back to the trunk and other branches. So if you have say five branches, and would like your lower three branches to fatten up, you need to trim those ends back. Keep allowing them to backbud and trimming them back. The great thing about wisteria is that it's a very quick grower !! Let me know if there's anything else you'd like to know about it. . .
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23-Jul-2002
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bonsaiTALK Craftsman
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Thanks for the info, i wanted the lower branch to thicken and now i no how. Cheers.
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23-Jul-2002
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Wisteria, being vines, love to climb. If you'd like a thick and twisted trunk, there's no better way than to put it in the ground and give it something to climb on. It will thicken by an inch or two a year. I would plant the trunk at an angle and cut it back to the first leaf set and let it start over just twining around a post.
Cut it back again each year a little less, and in 5 years you would have something really respectable. If you don't want to do that you can develop it on and make a nice bonsai, but even with a think trunk you will want movement to make the trunk more graceful, so I would again cut it back to that first leaf set and get some movement in the trunk. Hope that helps. We have a real lack of wisteria in the gallery, but here is one. IMHO, there is not enough movement in the trunk to make a nice tree without flowers. If you didn't cut yours back, but say grew it on, it might look something like this in time. In bloom, no one is looking at the flowers, anyway. 
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