I am hoping someone can give advice on my wysteria which refuses to bloom.
I started it from a 1 1/2 foot and it has now grown atop a trellis and has
been doing this for 3 years. It has yet to show a hint of flowering. Am I
being too impatient or is there something i can do to aid in blooming?
Thanks for any help in advance

Karen Corbin wrote:

I am hoping someone can give advice on my wysteria which refuses to bloom.
I started it from a 1 1/2 foot and it has now grown atop a trellis and has
been doing this for 3 years. It has yet to show a hint of flowering. Am I
being too impatient or is there something i can do to aid in blooming?
Thanks for any help in advance

That was a pretty small start - you may be waiting awhile. And if it wasn't a
grafted start, you may be waiting a very LONG while. :-(

Here's a couple of things to consider:
1. Vines take about 3 years to establish before they really start to produce a
lot of growth and flowers.
2. Wisteria may take even longer to establish, specially from a small start. If
your start was a seedling and not a graft, it can take upto 15 years or more
before it will bloom.
3. Heavy blooming on wisteria is generated by heavy pruning and no fertilizing
- treat 'em bad and they will bloom!
4, In gardening, patience is more than a virtue - it is a necessity.

On Sat, 22 Feb 2003 20:22:37 -0500, Karen Corbin wrote:

I am hoping someone can give advice on my wysteria which refuses to
bloom. I started it from a 1 1/2 foot and it has now grown atop a trellis
and has been doing this for 3 years. It has yet to show a hint of
flowering. Am I being too impatient or is there something i can do to
aid in blooming? Thanks for any help in advance

I have one that didn't bloom for the first 6 years. Here's what I was told
to do and it seems to have worked.

In late winter prune each branch back but leave 5-6 leaf nodes on each
branch. I also fertilized with super phosphate several times during the
growing season. I think pruning had more to do with it blooming though.
Hang in there, it'll bloom. The first year just a few but each year after
it has more and more blooms.

Last year mine was almost ready to bloom and we got frost, killed every
single bloom. I was quite PO'd to say the least. It would have been LOADED
with blooms.

If when you bought it it had blooms on then it will bloom every season for
you If not then you will wait a long while for it to bloom &it may never
bloom really well. Always look for blooms when selecting & only purchase in
spring when the blooms are on the plant

Maryanne

"Karen Corbin" wrote in message
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I am hoping someone can give advice on my wysteria which refuses to bloom.
I started it from a 1 1/2 foot and it has now grown atop a trellis and has
been doing this for 3 years. It has yet to show a hint of flowering. Am
I
being too impatient or is there something i can do to aid in blooming?
Thanks for any help in advance