wisteria bonsai in flower

smashyd

Hi
Here is a pic of my wisteria that has flowered for the only second time in 18 years of training. also a before pic. What do you think? apologies for double thread. i screwed it up somehow.

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BonsaiManNJ

beautiful.

What can be done to coax them to flower? I just aqquired one this year.

smashyd

Hi
Having spent over 20 years trying to figure that out you might not value my opinion!! but here goes: This is what I have understood from what i have read. Everyone has a different opinion. Age should be at least 5 years sometimes a lot longer. Large root ball, roots must fill the pot. Pruning: the flowers are born from mature buds so allow the tree to grow and cut back to two or three of these mature buds. How you go about that is a subject of great debate as you also need to create your branch structure and that, it seems to me can be counter productive if you want flowers. Fall repotting seems to be best here in the uk. i could go into greater detail but i am a very slow typist i'm afraid and last time someone asked me that question i had my virtual head chewed off by rockm.

Hawthorn

Amazing what 18 years can do to a stick in a pot.. Absolutely BEAUTIFUL!! Thanks for sharing, I may have to find myself one now, I wouldn't even care if it took 18 years for me to get it to flower once like that.. It would be worth it.

ekillians

I like your tree very much, but like most trees with a lot of growth its hard to rate your tree when in bloom or with too many leaves. If you have a picture from in the winter so we could evaluate the branch structure this would be better.

I do like your opposing roots on the left that balance the branch extending out on right. Roots also nicely placed above the line of the pot in a mound.



Right now i just think: oooo.... look at the pretty flowers.


My cherry blossom just bloomed, so nice. Unfortunately we only get two weeks of blooming. Now THATS a problem I think someone should solve: continuous blooming.


I'm adding to my to do list: "Finally get your own wisteria."

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smashyd

Thanks Hawthorn. every year i looked at it and every year almost i have had to say to myself "oh well no flowers again, i'll just continue to create structure" i think that it would have looked very different had i got flowers early on. i bought it from a nursery and planted it in the ground next to the house but 5 years later it still hadn't flowered so i dug it up to move it to a better position. thats when i changed my mind and stuck it in a pot. the next 15 years it suffered greatly from my ignorance and neglect.
Its quite amazing that it is actually still alive!

Hawthorn

It's diversities similar to this that create great wild dwarfed trees.. Strength and character are not things we can give our trees if they do not have any of their own.

smashyd

thanks ekillians. here is a pic without flowers. One proviso though and please dont think i'm making excuses, the tree suffered about a third die back a couple of years ago and i amd still rearranging the position of the branches. Also i cut some branches back this year very severely as it got hit by frost and a load of buds died. The tree is to be twice the height it is now with 2 or more flower clouds than it has so far.

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anttal63

smashyd that is fantastic, beautiful shape and balance and such elegance. well i think you are right in what you say, personally i think if you are going to grow one of these its about the flower not the branch structure. you can get into as much detail as you like your proof is in the pudding.

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