Getting Chinese Wisteria to Bloom

My Wisteria climbs 40 feet tall and blooms 2 foot long flower clusters around easter every year, its base trunk is a foot in diameter and has recently (last 2 years) been producing lots of seeds but I dont know what variety it is. anybody know?

How can I get my wisteria to bloom. I’v had it 2 seasons already and no blooms.I don’t know what kind of wisteria I have. Right now it looks like a tree. Thanks

If you encounter the problem of inducing Chinese wisteria plants to flower (a common problem), try applying a fertilizer high in phosphorus (the middle number in the NPK sequence on fertilizer bags) in early spring. Also try pruning a couple of times each year (in early summer after blooming, and when dormant in winter) to stimulate budding for next year. Root pruning in late fall is sometimes suggested, too, as a stimulant for stubborn vines that just seem to refuse to blossom!

I bought a chinese wisteria when it was 6 inches. It grew! the third year it still did not bloom. So I cut it back hard that year. I got seven beautiful blooms this year. But i have a question now, I found a really long green velvet like thing about 2 to 3 inches on one of the branches. Is this a SEED POD?

Sounds like it.

I have a Chinese Wisteria,didn’t bloom
for two years.Someone told me it takes a couple years for it to bloom,but if it dosen’t after a couple years,take a
spade shovel and make a 3ft circle about
12 in.deep,so it will shock the roots.

Chinese Wisteria twine clockwise, Japanese Wisteria twine counter-clockwise.

Hmmm I have a Small chinese Wisteria, Im turning it into a bonsai.
I never worked with one before, BUT with previous experience with other plants all I had to do is change the photo period of the plant to match the photo period of the season in which it naturaly blooms. Also as stated before High Phosphorous should help boost the flowering cicle.
I do understand that some ppl wont be able to change the photo period because the poor thing is planted out door in ground.
thats why im growing it indoors, so that I can control it.
I dont believe in stressing the plant to make it bloom. it’s just going to stun the plant and then it really wont do anything.

ill be applying that techniqu once im done shaping and prunning the plant. Maybe then ill post my results.

Hope Im able to help.

In my Better Homes and Garden Gardening book, it states that Chinese Wisteria twines counterclockwise and Japanese wisteria twines clockwise. You state the opposite. Now I am confused as to what I have. Mine twines counterclockwise…
Pam

Pam,

Good catch, but when you say, “You state the opposite,” let’s be clear: “You” in this case is someone named “Joe” who left a comment here (as opposed to the blogger — that would be yours truly).

What you say is correct: Chinese wisteria twines counterclockwise and Japanese wisteria twines clockwise. Thank you!

Well, I’m glad I’m not the only one with a Wisteria problem…but I think I have all of you beat. My Chinese Wisteria has NEVER bloomed in 8 years!

I bought it as a nursery closing sale…in great condition. They were just all 1/2 off for quick sale. I had my husband plant it in a perfect sunny location next to our gazebo pole…and man, has it grown! Without a cluster in eight years!

It’s beautiful, green and climbs like crazy every year…but I bought it for the purple clusters that I saw hanging on the I.D. tag at the nursery. I have plenty of green things growing, so that was going to be the color thrill in my back yard.

Needless to say, I’ve purchased other shrubs of color since then, and was about to chop the Wisteria down until the lady at Home Depot said that sounds about right for its kind. Then I honestly just thought about going online to find out once and for all.

I don’t feel so bad now. Thanks for your blogs. I’ll try some of the solutions. Will it really get 40 feet high?

St. Louis

J.,

Thanks for all the input. Don’t bet against the 40 feet number: I’ve seen wisteria climb to the tops of tall trees!