Protecting Wisteria buds question
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Comments (6)Wisteria is not well suited to container growth - it is just too big and too vigorous a vine to be content for long in a container that would suit most balconies. Blueberries are often grown in a container and can make a nice addition to a balcony. Be aware that growing anything in a container is much different from growing the same plant in the ground. The medium - potting soil - is critical as is routine fertilizing. Potting soil has little to no nutrient value so all nutrients must be provided by the grower. And it's important what kind of fertilizer you use. Organic fertilizers tend not be very effective in a container situation as they need to be processed by soil organisms to become available to the plant roots and there's just not many soil critters lurking about in potting soil. I would assume you didn't get much flowering on your blueberry because of the blood meal - it is pretty heavy in nitrogen (12-0-0)and so encourages foliar growth at the expense of flowers and fruit. Same with the fish (5-1-1). Try a fertilizer with less N and more P&K to encourage flowering and fruiting. Blueberries also like rather acidic conditions so make sure you address that as well. Miracle Gro for Acid Lovers is a good choice. It is also important to realize that plants grown in containers are far more vulnerable to winter cold than are those grown in the ground. Plant roots are very cold sensitive compared to top growth and without the insulating factor of all that soil mass around them, are easily damaged by cold weather. And as much of the eastern half of the country experienced a colder than normal winter cold damage with container plantings is not unexpected. Add to that the exposure of a balcony setting and it sounds like you are lucky to have then survive at all....See Morewisteria floribunda questions
Comments (14)I'm not at all sure there is a definitive resource on wisteria.....a good many horticulturists specializing in this plant are of the opinion that many common cultivars are in fact hybrids of sinensis and floribunda and are designated as x formosa. Apparently these two species will hybridize quite readily and the distinctions of the hybrids compared to the species are very slight, at least to the non-specialized or untrained eye. One can find various cultivars listed as either sinensis, floribunda or x formosa, depending on who is doing the classifying. Regardless, root pruning can't hurt and is often recommended to encourage a recalcitrant vine into blooming. I've encountered a lot of mature wisteria vines over the years and only one produced any significant shooting, so while possible, I'd have to say it is not very probable. IME, the thuggishness associated with wisteria in our area is due to its extremely rapid growth in season and the fact that it produces such a heavy structure and top growth that easily swamps or uproots too small support systems....See Morewisteria question
Comments (34)I currently have three babies. They are under a foot tall, and two years old. What I planted in the ground was not a seed, like most of you, but what looked like short little sticks. Nothing happened at the end of the first summer and I was starting to dig to plant something else when I noticed my "stick" had started to grow roots, so I covered it over and waited. Well into the second year now and though they are very small, have lots of little branches and leaves. Maybe they will do something more this year. Everyone is always saying how they take over, but I am waiting, and waiting still. At least I can tell they have grown (not much, but some) and are healthy. Susan...See MoreWisteria question
Comments (2)This is one of the native wisterias and is a newer cold-hardy cultivar. It should supposedly bloom on new growth so pruning (and when to do so), shouldn't be as big an issue as the asian types. For plants that bloom on new growth, it is usually recommended to prune in late winter/early spring. How you train it is entirely up to you and how you want it to grow. I have seen them (and mine, a W. frutescens, was like this when I bought it) trained to a central trunk but with multiple vines wrapped around each other to form that trunk, and then the laterals come off the top along the multiple vines (with those top vines wrapped around each other to form the lateral supports). After a number of years, the multiple intertwined vines will fuse to form a large trunk and single lateral arms. There were a couple links that I had found and posted in another thread on training. Here was one: RHS - Training Wisteria...See Morebart bart
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