Secrets of trimming wisteria: why and how often you need, possible problems and step-by-step instructions

Wisteria or Wisteria has always attracted gardeners with its beauty. The plant looks good in landscape design. To make Wisteria pleasing to the eye, it must be properly trimmed.

This article describes why pruning is needed for this beautiful plant, how often such a procedure needs to be performed, and how it is performed.

You will also learn how to care for wisteria and what actions to apply if the tree began to hurt.

Why is it needed?

Timely pruning of the liana will give it a presentable appearance. If this is not done, then the plant will lose its shape. It will grow, the flowers will not be so beautiful. It is recommended to shorten the shoots twice a year - in the summer and after the leaves fall. The presence of lateral uncircumcised shoots will become an obstacle to the growth of new flowers.

If you need to adjust the liana in a new way or give it a different shape, then this is not scary, it will not give flowers for only one season, but then flowering will be restored.

How often is required and at what time of the year?

The beginning of regular pruning of the plant should begin after 2-3 years of its growth. The first pruning is done at the end of summer., in August. Young growths are cut to 3-4 kidneys. This is the main pruning, which stimulates abundant flowering in springtime (in more detail about how wisteria blooms, and what to do when this does not happen, you can find out here).

The second circumcision is carried out in the spring, this time frozen, dried up or too thin shoots are removed. If necessary, the cropped summer shoots are also shortened by another 2 buds. This pruning is repeated annually.

In winter, this procedure is not required., but many gardeners advise it. The main shoot is shortened, the shoots cut off in the summer, which managed to still grow, and the side shoots.

We advise you to watch a detailed video about summer trimming of wisteria:

Step-by-step instructions for pruning in spring

In the spring, wisteria is cut as follows:

1. This is done in late spring, the old shoots are shortened by 30 cm.
2. Branches need to be cut only on last year's wood or on short shoots of the current year.
3. After the release of wisteria from the winter shelter, growths of old branches by 2-3 buds are shortened.

We suggest you watch a video about how to prune wisteria in spring:

For flowering

Next, we will tell you how to prune a plant properly so that it blooms. Trimming is carried out as follows:

1. To form a standard tree, one strong shoot is selected, and the rest are removed.
2. If you originally intended to grow a vine as a climbing species, then you need to remove the abundantly growing side shoots. So wisteria will not spend its energy on overgrowing greens, but will direct all attention to the formation of buds.
3. If the flowering of the plant is sparse, then you can try to prune some of the roots. This is done with a shovel at a depth of 30-40 cm and at a distance of 1.5-2 meters from the main trunk. Vine growth will decrease, and flowering will increase.

How to care for a plant?

The plant does not require special care after cutting. It is only necessary to strengthen the usual actions that gardeners perform in relation to wisteria.

• Rough cut branches are necessarily treated with garden varieties or other means that accelerate wound healing. If this is not done, then the places of the cuts contribute to the penetration of pests and the spread of diseases.
• Do not forget about watering. It should be moderate, but the soil should be constantly moist. Such watering will be relevant from the beginning of spring to the end of summer. The plant does not tolerate drought.
• If the spring is dry, there should be more water for irrigation, otherwise the buds of the creeper will begin to fall.
• When the period of budding and flowering begins, fertilizers must be added to the soil. This is done once a week.
• It is important for the plant to have sunlight, it should be an average of 6-12 hours a day.

What if the liana disappears?

Both transplant and circumcision of wisteria can provoke stress in the plant. Therefore, you can often hear the phrase that the liana began to disappear after these actions.

Wisteria can be helped as follows:

1. You can use the antidepressant Epin (1 ampoule per 5 liters of water). Wisteria shoots are sprayed.
2. It is time to shade the plant, preventing direct sunlight from falling on it. In this case, regularly spray branches from the spray gun in the morning.

Wisteria disappears extremely rarely after pruningeven if most of the branches were cut. This is a powerful plant that has good endurance to various kinds of shocks, so you should only intensify caring for it, and the wisteria will recover (more about caring for room and garden wisteria can be found here).

By cutting, unnecessary branches are thinned out that interfere with the good flowering of wisteria. The tip of an adult plant is also trimmed so that its growth does not go up. Every year, the growth of wisteria requires different types of pruning, everything will depend on how quickly the growth of additional shoots occurs.

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