New Wisteria - growth or lack of?

Hi,



I ordered two Wisteria plants last year and planted them in July.

The main stem on one has grown significantly but then died down. The other palan has remained the same size.

They both had foliage and 'greened out' before dying down in the autumn/winter but at the moment there doesn't seem to be much life or growth in them?

I was wondering when is the time that they return to life and will start flowering? They are very young I know and will take years to establish.

I'd like to train them up the wall of the house but as they're still only circa 6" in height not sure if they're OK?

Thanks.

 

Wisteria is late into leaf (depends on the variety you have, but the usual culprits will flower before the leaf comes - although if yours is young it won't flower yet - particularly if it has been grown from seed, rather than grafted)

 

If they are only 6ins high I'm a bit suspicious that they may be as Kristen says, seed grown plants.

Grafted ones tend to be larger when sold.

I think grafted plants should flower with 3 to 4 yrs, seedlings, who knows?

 

I agree, it sounds as if they are seed sown. That being the case you are looking at about 10 years before flowering. Go to your local garden centre and buy a couple of grafted plants, they should flower this year.

 

Missed that bit. Does sound like seedlings :(

I bought some weedy looking plants "cheap" from van Meuwen, but turns out they are grafted and flowered in their second year I think (they spent the first year in pots, so but for that may well have flowered first-year.)

 

I think they tend to flower in the pots, but once planted out they start to get their roots moving and make a lot of leafy growth for a couple of years at least, before getting down to flowering seriously.

After that pruning is needed to keep them under control.