[IBC] Diff. in Wisteria buds
Hello, all.
Can someone please post on the site, or inform me of the difference between the flower and leaf buds on a Wisteria chinensis. I believe my Wist. is old enough to produce, yet it just leafs out and dissapoints every year. Could it be that I currently live in U.S. zone 10? Diolch/thanks! Scott R __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Small Business - Try our new Resources site http://smallbusiness.yahoo.com/resources/ ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by Kevin Bailey++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
Hi Scott,
Wistaria buds are all pretty similar initially but the flower buds soon start to look less pointed and become rounded and swollen fairly early in spring. There are many, many tricks for getting them to flower, once they are mature enough, but none of them seem to reproduce the effect for everyone. These have been discussed regularly on the IBC mailing list. Hope this helps Kev Bailey __________________________________________________ _______________ Be the first to hear what's new at MSN - sign up to our free newsletters! http://www.msn.co.uk/newsletters ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by Kevin Bailey++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
Scott Roberts wrote:
Hello, all. Can someone please post on the site, or inform me of the difference between the flower and leaf buds on a Wisteria chinensis. I believe my Wist. is old enough to produce, yet it just leafs out and dissapoints every year. Could it be that I currently live in U.S. zone 10? I assume you mean W. sinensis, Chinese wisteria, since there is no W. chinensis. Anyway, zone 10 is pretty warm for it. Dirr says zone 8 is as warm as it likes, although Botanica, whose zone limits are MUCH more liberal than Dirr, allows that it will grow in Z 10. In many cases, Botanica's zones are too liberal, IMHO, and I think zone 10 is certainly at its southernmost limit, if not beyond it. But, there are many versions of zone 10, and if your humidity is high it may do OK. Anyway, wisteria do not like to flower in pots, and as Kevin says there are a number of "tricks" alleged to make them bloom. In MY experience, your tree needs to have been grown from a layering of an adult plant or a cutting and in a pot at least 8 years before you can even start thinking about the possibility of a bloom. If grown from seed, 10 years is the absolute soonest for blooms and 15 are more likely. Also in my experience, the best hope for blooming is low N fertilizer most of the year (it is OK AFTER a bloom for a while) and keeping the pot about 1/3 to 1/2 submerged in water during the hot part of the year. Quite soon after they appear, flower buds swell to a round shape and color begins to show through them -- first a rusty red, then the color of the flowers to be. Good luck. Jim Lewis - - Tallahassee, FL - Nature encourages no looseness, pardons no errors. Ralph Waldo Emerson ************************************************** ****************************** ++++Sponsored, in part, by Kevin Bailey++++ ************************************************** ****************************** -- The IBC HOME PAGE & FAQ: http://www.internetbonsaiclub.org/ -- +++++ Questions? Help? e-mail +++++ |
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