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Standard Wisteria
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Can anyone tell me how to make a wisteria into a standard tree,do I leave the lower shoots on it until it has reached the required height or do I cut them back as it's growing? Any help would be much appreciated TIA Chris |
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Christine Rowe wrote:
Hi Can anyone tell me how to make a wisteria into a standard tree,do I leave the lower shoots on it until it has reached the required height or do I cut them back as it's growing? Any help would be much appreciated TIA Chris I don't think a wistaria will stand up on its own: standards I've seen aren't really standards in that way. They need a big, and very durable, metal umbrella thing to support them. I suppose it would need to be made of real wrought iron so it wouldn't rust away in the first twenty years, and that's expensive, if you can even get it. I'd take out side shoots till the plant reaches the level you want. -- Mike. |
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"Mike Lyle" wrote after... Christine Rowe wrote: Can anyone tell me how to make a wisteria into a standard tree,do I leave the lower shoots on it until it has reached the required height or do I cut them back as it's growing? Any help would be much appreciated TIA Chris I don't think a wistaria will stand up on its own: standards I've seen aren't really standards in that way. They need a big, and very durable, metal umbrella thing to support them. I suppose it would need to be made of real wrought iron so it wouldn't rust away in the first twenty years, and that's expensive, if you can even get it. I'd take out side shoots till the plant reaches the level you want. That is true at first, but once the stem has thickened and become tree like, which does take quite a few years, then it will stand up on it's own, seen it. Personally I would treat like any standard and leave some leaf up the stem until it is tall enough to be stopped, the extra leaf = extra growth. Just keep the side shoots within bounds with pruning. -- Regards Bob In Runnymede, 17 miles West of London |
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Many thanx to all for your help and advice much appreciated
Chris "Christine Rowe" wrote in message ... Hi Can anyone tell me how to make a wisteria into a standard tree,do I leave the lower shoots on it until it has reached the required height or do I cut them back as it's growing? Any help would be much appreciated TIA Chris |
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Bob Hobden wrote:
"Mike Lyle" wrote after... Christine Rowe wrote: Can anyone tell me how to make a wisteria into a standard tree,do I leave the lower shoots on it until it has reached the required height or do I cut them back as it's growing? Any help would be much appreciated TIA Chris I don't think a wistaria will stand up on its own: standards I've seen aren't really standards in that way. They need a big, and very durable, metal umbrella thing to support them. I suppose it would need to be made of real wrought iron so it wouldn't rust away in the first twenty years, and that's expensive, if you can even get it. I'd take out side shoots till the plant reaches the level you want. That is true at first, but once the stem has thickened and become tree like, which does take quite a few years, then it will stand up on it's own, seen it. Personally I would treat like any standard and leave some leaf up the stem until it is tall enough to be stopped, the extra leaf = extra growth. Just keep the side shoots within bounds with pruning. Interesting: must be a wonderful sight. How old does it have to be to support itself? Do the branches on a mature specimen hold themselves up too? I wonder if a compromise solution might be to grow it through a suitable small tree, which I suppose it might eventually kill, leaving the wistaria on its own, like the tropical strangling fig. -- Mike. |
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In article , Sacha
writes On 16/5/05 11:33, in article , "Mike Lyle" wrote: Bob Hobden wrote: snip Interesting: must be a wonderful sight. How old does it have to be to support itself? Do the branches on a mature specimen hold themselves up too? I wonder if a compromise solution might be to grow it through a suitable small tree, which I suppose it might eventually kill, leaving the wistaria on its own, like the tropical strangling fig. We have one going up a conifer (the name of which I forget) and it's flowering beautifully, defying the laws of pruning! I don't know if all Wisterias would behave so well, perhaps it needs to be an especially vigorous one. But this one is never pruned because it's impossible to get at - that might be the only reason for NOT growing one up a tree, though a deciduous one would make it a lot easier! As I understand it, wisteria heads upwards to the top of the canopy, at which point the stems can no longer climb but bend and sag downwards, which encourages them to flower. The pruning is designed to kid them into thinking they've reached the top when they haven't. And so a wisteria which manages to scramble into the top of a tree should have no problem in producing masses of flowers despite not being pruned. It may be that pruning the bits you can reach encourages flowers lower down. -- Kay "Do not insult the crocodile until you have crossed the river" |
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In message , Christine Rowe
writes Can anyone tell me how to make a wisteria into a standard tree,do I leave the lower shoots on it until it has reached the required height or do I cut them back as it's growing? We have one that turned itself into a standard all on its own without climbing up on anything. Not sure how it did it: I took my eyes off the runners for a minute - well, more like a couple of months - and lo and behold, a standard. Must have been stems twining around each other and staying vertical somehow.... This was last summer, and it's flowering its socks off this year. Mind you, its parent is a pretty old, with what must be big roots. But I never would have thought it would flower so soon. -- Klara, Gatwick basin |
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