m5eaygeoff wrote: 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.

That doesn't phase me. I am happy to grow it from seed. It is going to take me 10 years to get my Juniper to a thickness good enough for a pot I have. So I am perfectly fine with the slow growing rate of trees.

Fine, no reason why you can't grow from seed. From what I was told it is possible that it will not flower at all. This is why they are grafted. That way they will flower in 5 years or even less, I think I would prefer to get the tree to flowering rather than waste so many years waiting.

Craig wrote: 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.

OK, good to keep in mind

Craig wrote: 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 ?

Yeah.. two with very little root (Story of my urban digs lately) and one a true cutting, from one of the main trunks.

Two Trunks


Cutting

I really hope they live for you mate, they are Japanese wisteria right?, with the twist going clockwise.

Yep I agree with Geoff, Wisteria can take 15 to 20 years for the Trunk to "Mature" before it'll even consider flowering. Take cutting of a flowering specimen tree or as Leatherback has done collect them

Love to see Geoff's wisteria

I will take a picture shortly. I was not refering to the trunk, but to the fact that they can be shy in flowering, this was the information given to me recently.