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Posted 8 years 11 months ago #15759
Hi,

Could one use a wisteria for bonsai? I just love the flowers and happen to be able to get some cuttings from one or two.

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Posted 8 years 11 months ago #15760
Yes you can. I have not done it but I have seen photos of Bonsai Wisteria.
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Posted 8 years 11 months ago #15761
O great. Can you show your wisteria bonsai?
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Posted 8 years 11 months ago #15762

leatherback wrote: O great. Can you show your wisteria bonsai?

grannyliz wrote: I have not done it but I have seen photos of Bonsai Wisteria.


:whistle: www.google.nl/search?q=wisteria+bonsai&tbm=isch :whistle:
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Posted 8 years 11 months ago #15764
Thank you Auk. You mean it can not be bonsai?
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Posted 8 years 11 months ago #15765
Not sure where the mis-communication started :)

Seems you asked grannyliz to show her wisteria bonsai, but she wrote she doesn't have one, she has seen photos.
So, I posted a link to photos of wisteria bonsai.

Yes, sure they can be used. I've seen one in real life at a club meeting that was quite nice.
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Posted 8 years 11 months ago #15769
They are usually grown for the display of Flowers they can put out each Year. With Wisteria for Bonsai you must be wary of any Rotting of the Trunk, it is a soft wood and very suseptible to rot.
I only have a chinese wisteria ,but it is not bonsai yet (or maybe never).I have also seen a few and if they are grown well and a nice trunkline develpoed then they can be amazing Bonsai.
Do you have 1 lined up ?
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Posted 8 years 11 months ago #15771
From a Blog I follow

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Posted 8 years 11 months ago #15773
I have a Wisteria growing in the back garden growing up against the garden shed. I plan on taking the pods that grow and grow one from seed.
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Posted 8 years 11 months ago #15774
It is better to get a grafted tree as they may or may not flower. Apparently they can take up to 20 years to flower or not at all from seed. Mine is in flower right now. Later I will stand the pot in water for about 6 weeks, Don't quite know why but did it last year and it grew and flowered better that before.
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