I have had a wisteria for about 6 years and it has never bloomed. The foliage is thick, lucious green and doing well. It's suppose to have the long purple flowers, but no luck. Does anyone know about this?
2007-01-09 05:52:48 · 7 answers · asked by smcdevitt2001 5 in Home & Garden ➔ Garden & Landscape
It takes a long time for them to bloom! Try root pruning. That is going around the trunk of the plant about 18 inches from the trunk with a sharp spade and cutting through the roots. This promotes blooming and won't hurt your plant. Do this before the plant starts to grow ,like now, or a little earlier in the fall.
2007-01-09 08:35:41 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
Do you fertilize your wisteria, buy some fertilizer such as 30-45-30, if it is in the groundmake some holes around the plant and pour the water in them, try to get to the root, do this about 6 weeks before bloom time. Try to saturate the soil as much as possible even if it takes a couple of days. The wisteria growing in the woods get nutrients from all the rotted leaves and such. Hope you see purple this spring!!!!!!!!!!!!
2007-01-09 06:22:04 · answer #2 · answered by watergoddess53 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
My initial feelings on this are that your Wisteria is receiving too much nutrition - primarily Nitrogen. So, if you are feeding it with a fertilizer you may wish to find something with a lower first number in it (such as 10-50-30 fertilizer, etc - such as Schultz Super Bloom, etc); other factors in not getting a wisteria to not bloom are: 1) plant is too young; 2) getting too much water (which is related somewhat to my feeling it is getting too much nutrition; 3) not getting enough light.
I would cut back on any fertilizing and excessive watering. The fact that you have "thick, lucious green" is indicative that you are spoiling it somewhat. Cut back on fertilizers and water for a month or two and see what happens.
2007-01-09 08:35:03 · answer #3 · answered by Chris C 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
looks like your wisteria desires a dose of phosphorus to bounce start up the blooms. Wisteria can take 8-10 years to bloom, yet by potential of 7 years the wisteria could desire to be blooming if the soil situations replaced into furnish the plant with each and every thing it desires. this text will inform you a thank you to be conscious a intense phosphorus fertilize to rigidity your wisteria to bloom, and likewise has another great care counsel for wisteria.
2016-12-16 05:26:52 · answer #4 · answered by wilma 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I think it does need many years to set for bloom...My mother has some that's hundreds of years old, big around as a pine tree....It has thousands of blooms...I on the other had, have a plant that I have trained to be a small tree....It's at least 20 years old and blooms fairly well.....I think if you give it a couple more years, it will begin to bloom as the vines get larger near the base of the plant...Also, trimming it will lessen stress on vine growth and may produce blooms quicker.
Good luck
2007-01-09 06:03:29 · answer #5 · answered by stretch 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I have never grown wisteria for the simple fact that I've read in several places that, depending on climate, they can take several years to bloom. I've read as many as eight years. I guess patience is the secret with those.
2007-01-09 05:59:12 · answer #6 · answered by Spud55 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
I had one thet covered my patio porch. It was here when we bought the house and the 'trunk' is abour 4" thick....it never bloomed until someone told me to mix bone meal into the top 3" around the root.....it worked...great blooms.
2007-01-09 12:38:04 · answer #7 · answered by USAjane 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋