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SEED Wisteria propagation
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Robert C. Marshall
May 2, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/2/95
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There is an enormous, beautiful wisteria blooming along the edge of the
interstate here, obviously once the garden pride of a someone made to make
room for said interstate. In keeping with the spirit of the age, I should
like to privitize a substantial bit of this currently public plant. What
part, here in the northernmost tip of Zone 8, should I have follow me
home? A slice of root? Air layering? Will there be ... Problems?
Thank you, each, in advance for your kind advice.
interstate here, obviously once the garden pride of a someone made to make
room for said interstate. In keeping with the spirit of the age, I should
like to privitize a substantial bit of this currently public plant. What
part, here in the northernmost tip of Zone 8, should I have follow me
home? A slice of root? Air layering? Will there be ... Problems?
Thank you, each, in advance for your kind advice.
Don Martinson
May 2, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/2/95
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Your best bet for propagation of wisteria would be softwood or hardwood
cuttings. Seeds produce plants of unreliable blooming and root cuttings
may also produce a very different plant it the original was grafted.
Air layering can also be done, but it sounds as if this could be
difficult in your case. In any case, good luck.
cuttings. Seeds produce plants of unreliable blooming and root cuttings
may also produce a very different plant it the original was grafted.
Air layering can also be done, but it sounds as if this could be
difficult in your case. In any case, good luck.
Don Martinson
dma...@cdmas.crc.mcw.edu
Fred Hayward
May 2, 1995, 3:00:00 AM5/2/95
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In article <Pine.ULT.3.91.950502...@henson.cc.wwu.edu>
r...@cc.wwu.edu (Robert C. Marshall) writes:
>
>There is an enormous, beautiful wisteria blooming along the edge of the
>interstate here, obviously once the garden pride of a someone made to
make
>room for said interstate. In keeping with the spirit of the age, I
should
>like to privitize a substantial bit of this currently public plant.
What
>part, here in the northernmost tip of Zone 8, should I have follow me
>home? A slice of root? Air layering? Will there be ... Problems?
I too had a large wisteria - "had", for I just finished giving it a
very drastic pruning, all because in the ten years that it has been growing
along our deck it has never given us even one teensy tiny flower. In my
search for a replacement that was blooming, I learned several things: some
wisterias _never_ bloom, some bloom only when threatened with their very
survival
(hence the drastic pruning job mine received), and some bloom prolifically.
I also discovered that even cuttings taken from a gorgeous bloomer may not
ever flower.
Good luck :)
Claudia
from Maple Ridge in the great Canadian Southwest
Zone 8
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