Cuttings from Wisteria?
I thought wisteria were usually grafted...? I'd buy one, personally, and save home-propagation for stuff thats a) a bit quicker and b) you want loads of, rather than just the one. But I'm both greedy and really impatient, so perhaps not the best source of advice here. So I'll just shut up.
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Think I'd take the cuttings, and then buy a wisteria as well - that way the cuttings are guaranteed to strike and you'll be in a forest of wisteria - if you didn't buy one the cuttings would rot - Gardener's Law
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
Perhaps I was just lucky,but I just collected a seed pod from the wisteria and potted it up last year.have small plant abot 8 inches tall.
If you're growing a wisteria from seed I hope you're relatively young and have plenty of patience - wisterias grown from seed can take up to 20 years to bloom, whereas grafted plants should flower within 2 or 3 years.
But what a sense of pride you will have when it does flower
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
I too find growing anything from seed satisfying - I have half a dozen from last year (seed planted on edge in a pot on my windowsill in spring) but found that two of the young plants perished in the winter so may bring them into the cold greenhouse this year. I'm not optimistic about seeing them flower (5 yers min I believe) but "better to tarvel hopefully...." as they say.
The seed was taken from pods on my wisteria after they had completely dried on the plant - they are quite big, two or three to each pod.
have fun!
But maybe sow the seed too - for posterity and a jolly good conversation piece
Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.
aldi have some nice wisteria pants in today £9.99 today about 20 inch tall
Aldi have some nice wisteria plants in today £9.99 about 20 inch tall.
I.ll stick with my little plant and see what happens,nothing to loose as already have massive wisteria and 20 years does,nt sound that bad
Were the plants in Aldi the dark mauve or the pale flowered ones? I'd have to make a special journey there and it's the dark flowered wisteria I really want. Also, does anyone know how safe it is to plant wisteria against a house wall, as some of the older plants I've seen have a very thick trunk and branches, so I wondered if the roots could damage a house's foundations?
Air layering is the best method, it'll take about a year, but you can use any stem you like and use quite a long stem. Or layer a stem that's running along the ground (the ones you're supposed to remove). I've got a new 6ft standard growing from a layered stem.