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In article , Mike Day
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When we bought our present house it had a 9 foot tall Wisteria Pink Ice
growing up a west facing wall which didn't appear to have been pruned for
many years (although the house was only built in 1993 so it couldn't have
been prior to then). It produced lots of foliage with only a very few
flowers.
Two years ago, in desperation, we pruned it right back to the main stems.
Since then it has produced only shoots which have a few leaves close to the
main stems but then get very long and spindly. No flowers have been produces
since we originally pruned it.
Again this year, when other Wisterias are flowering, ours is only producing
the spindly shoots and a few leaves.
Cam anyone let me know what we have done wrong and how tro correct it ?

The aim is to produce a main stem with lots of short flowering spurs. So
prune your long spindly bits back by about half during the summer, then
in the winter prune them back to 3 buds. Do this for a couple of years
and you should get lots of flowers.

Point of interest: we have a wisteria that could hardly bloom more
profusely, but it has never ever been pruned, or perhaps, more strictly
speaking, it prunes itself. It grows in a full size barrel (36 gallons
I think), where it has sat undisturbed for at least the last 20 years
(it has bloomed for most of them), with an occasional dose of
Phostrogen. It is supported against the house wall by wire up to a
height of around 15 ft. thereafter its on its own and tends to spread
slowly outwards, and sideways within the limits of the wire. New
shoots, finding no where to go, tend to die back. I'm not sure what is
the lesson - perhaps it is to be cruel!
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John Lloyd, West Midlands, UK