I saw this video some months ago, I finally bought the seeds some days ago and I'm glad to comment that this method is amazing, all of my seeds germinated and I'm now waiting for them to fully sprout in the little containers I put them into, so thanks for inspiring me to give this plants an opportunity to grow and spreading this great method around
Glad to hear you got such a good germination rate. It means you got some pretty fresh wisteria seeds. Thank you very much for the feedback and good luck with your wisteria seedlings!
Hi! I received some wisteria seeds and I put them in a glass jar for 3 days then I removed the access of water and now waiting for them to sprout is that the way you did it? Also I did another method that I found on RU-vid I took 10 seeds put them in a jars for 3 days then I removed the outer brown shell and I see it sprouting and place them in a plastic container with paper towel on the bottom and placed the bottom and on top of the seeds and poured water so the paper towel is soaked. When you put your seeds in water did you put the seeds in direct sunlight? I’m new to this and I would appreciate your feedback? Thank you
I just got my seeds and excitedly planted them. I'm glad that I saw this video right after. Thank you so much blessings to you and everyone in the chat
Glad to hear that! Did you already start their germination process? I would have loved to be able to give the seedlings away to anyone wanting one but shipping them internationally wasn't a viable option so I was limited to offer them locally. Luckily the seeds are really easy to germinate so I'm sure you will soon have enough wisteria plants for your garden and some to spare.👍
It's true that if you just plant the seed and sit back expecting it to flower without providing it with the proper care it could take this long. If it is planted in the ground in good soil, in a favorable location and you prune it correctly every year to promote blooming it will bloom much faster. Hope this helps! There are a lot of articles on the internet which just tell you that Wisteria grown from seed will take up to 15-30 years to bloom but don't tell you more than that. And this is because many of them are written by authors without first hand experience with growing Wisteria so they just put together bits of information from multiple sources.
Thank you very much for your video. My husband originally brought me a bonsai kit and we followed the instructions that came with the kit initially, but none of the seeds grew. We found your video and we bought fresh wisteria seeds and we followed exactly what you did and all the seeds are growing really well now. 😊🙏
Thank you so much for your presentation. I bought the seeds online and tried for a couple of years but couldn't succeed. On the other hand, seeds seeds collected from my existing garden, sprouts with out any effort, just placed in a designated location, and within a month, almost all the seeds germinated. I have more than 30 new plants in different ages and am planning to make bonsai. It is a great pleasure and satisfaction to see the results from seeds to a complete flowering bonsai!
The problem with seeds purchased online is that in most cases they are too old and have lost their germination capability. The seeds I'm using are fresh seeds collected by me. Sound like you have quite a collection of wisteria plants. I'm sure they will make nice bonsai.
I was given 2 pods and forgot them in the car! Of course they popped out in all directions! While vacuuming I found the seeds, pooped them into a jar of water and hoping they will sprout. Your video gave me hope that they might sprout after being in the car for a month or two! Thanks!
Helpful video with clear instructions. I checked your channel for a follow up video (since this one is 2 years old) but I may have missed it. Is there a follow up video for these wisteria plants?
Great help watching your video. I followed your method of soaking for about 36 hours and keept inside the air tight jar, and letting air inside every 12 hours. And I'm amazed it sprouted very quickly. thanks for the video
It also amazed me to see the high germination rate on Wisteria. I'm glad to hear you had good results and I hope your little wisteria seedlings get to grow big and healthy. Just don't make the mistake I made by putting the seedlings outside into direct sun.
Good luck with the germination process! The plants that I kept have spent their first winter outside and are now growing again. They didn't grow that much last year so not much to report yet. But I will surely make a new video once it's time to prune them.
Have you made a video of how you made the wisteria bonsai plant? I have seeds I am just growing now for my own first bonsai project. Very excited I found your channel!
Germinating the wisteria seeds was only the first step. Transforming the seedlings into bonsai will be a long process which I will document in future videos. For now the seedlings are fine but growing slowly so I will probably not make an update video too soon. 😋
I was just gifted some wisteria pods from someone that I just met from their plant and I rushed home excitedly and they are now in water I'm very excited I love wisteria I can't wait to see what they do❤
Glad to help! I hope your next try will be a success. The quality of seeds is also important. The older they are the less likely to germinate. So make sure you get fresh Wisteria seeds.
Thank you so much! Just got some wisteria seeds today and had no clue how to grow them. Cannot wait till spring when I can buy the right soils and pots to grow them in.
@@OddBonsai Well I finally got the supplies needed. And started the germination process two days ago like in the video with a jar of water. They...a;ready are growing roots.
I took my seeds from some pods that had dropped off my wisteria which last year had hundreds of pods. The pods are still there from last year and haven’t exploded or twisted. However the seeds I germinated took about a week or so and hey presto little inch high sprouts have appeared!
Thank you! That helps tremendously. Both my Wisteria didn't make it through our several below 0 temps this year. Fifteen years ago a friend gave me seeds which I grew in a southwest window and then planted on a trellis. I was a complete novice and really cannot remember anything else I did. She was the expert and her seeds never produced. Weird! Anyway, thankful that I had taken a number of pictures of them while in beautiful bloom so if I never can get these seeds to spout and grow, I do have something to remember them by. My friend has passed so cannot get her input and since it takes 8 yr for them to bloom, I may just replace with clematis on the trellis. I've never seen a Bonsai Wisteria so will look for it. I may even try to make one so will be following you. I appreciate your mention to wait until they have woody growth before planting. I may put it out in the butterfly garden that I'm planning so that I won't have the problem of it growing on and tearing up the Cedarwood of the house. :^) Many blooms and blessings, p
Sorry to hear about your wisteria plants. I couldn't believe it when 'we heard that it can take up to 10 years for a seed grown wisteria to flower, but it must be true if yours only flowered after 8 years. You should look up wisteria bonsai pictures online. They are awesome. I can only hope to come at least remotely close to something that beautiful. Good luck with your butterfly garden and with growing wisteria again! Maybe you can find some wisteria plants at a local nursery for an affordable price so you don't have to way for another 8 years to see and smell those beautiful flowers in your garden again.
@@OddBonsai WONDERFUL NEWS....they aren't dead. They still look dead and I guess all the upper growth is but I took a knife and scraped several big limbs toward the bottom and they are green! Now I've got to gently prune off the dead and see what happens. Also a few tiny limbs growing from the bottom. I'm still going to try to to sprout the seeds but I think I will see if I can find one at a nursery for the Butterfly Garden. Thank you so much. Blessings, p
Glad to hear they are still alive! I was wondering how cold it must have been to kill your wisterias since they are pretty hardy. You should be able to enjoy the wonderful flowers again in a couple of years.
Glad you found the video useful! Yeah, it was a nice searching the house during the night for the source of strange noises. 🤣 And I woke up 2 or 3 times that night , since not all the seed pods popped at once. It was only the next day that I found seeds all over the place and then I read about the popping. Lesson learned! 😋
My sister's mother has a wisteria plant and she brought me home a seed so I did this method and it worked exactly like he said it would same amount of days and everything mines root popped out on day 5
Thank you for the feedback. I use a balanced NPK fertiliser for my wisteria. Something like 5-5-5 or 10-10-10. You can also use some general fertilizer for flowering plants in autumn when it reaches maturity and starts to flower.
Thank you! It's an easy plant to germinate but it will be some years until you will be able to enjoy the lovely flowers. In any case the wait is worth it!
@@OddBonsai I had been brought a westariya sidling from Tarki, it is huge , flowers are not much, can you say how it will bloom moor ! I am from Bangladesh.
I have a 5 or 6 years old wisteria planted in my garden. I usually prune it at the end of summer and I found this helps getting more flowers next spring. If I don't prune it it will concentrate more on growing new branches.
@@habibajaved9794 Now I see you live in Bangladesh. Do you get cold winters where you live or is is more like a warm tropical climate? Lack of a wintering period couls also influence fliwering on wisterias from what I read.
@@OddBonsai thank you so much ! For the first time I became amazed to see a westariya bonsai with full bloom, and wish to have a bonsai like that, last around 22 years I am constructing my won bonsai and I have more then 100 bonsai of my won. If you make a video of making a plant of westariya from branch it will be appreciated!
I still have several left and I would be glad to offer you one but I don't think they would survive international shipping especially since they have grown a bit since I filmed the video.
Were there follow up videos? I typed in Wisteria in your main channel and only saw this video with "Wisteria". I bought a kit with multiple seed types for my wife for Mother's Day and it contained Wisteria, Japanese Maple, Judas Tree, and several others. I was hunting around for more information on Wisteria.
I just bought/got into bonsai and my first 3 types I’m trying is the wisteria, Japanese fire tree, and Sakura cherry blossoms bonsai ,,, I know you haven’t posted anything in over a year or at least I can’t find any videos but is there any future videos coming out that you can give any more tips?
Wish you had mentioned where to place them as they grew. ie Sunny location, how often to water and when they'll be able to be planted on an outside trellis. Any input from other gardners also welcome. Thanks so much! p
That's a good point but at the point I made the video I did not have much experience with growing wisteria from seeds myself. In the meanwhile I found that the young plants prefer lots of light but are sensitive to hot summer sun so better place them in indirect light. I have am mature plant in my garden and it has no problem growing in full sun. You can safely plant it in the ground once it gets a woody trunk 50-100cm tall. Hope this helps.
Well done brother I also tried wisteria seed germination a few months back but was not successful. A friend of mine gifted me 5 seeds, but they are a little smaller than your sprouts.
Thank you my friend! I remember the video and I was curious what kind of seeds you had. I asked Meet Gangwani and he said your seeds were Bolusanthus speciosus (tree wisteria). The ones I use here are from Wisteria chinensis which grows like a vine. Sorry to hear your seeds did not germinate, it would have been nice to see you make a bonsai from them.
What an effective way of germinating a wisteria plants. Good thing with that method is assure of a 100% survival rate. Good tips also my dear friend. Fully watched my friend.
Seeing how easy it was to germinate these seeds I'm pretty sure they will germinate just fine if they are put directly into soil. It's no wonder wisteria's are considered invasive in some regions. Thanks and take care!
The video was really interesting, thanks for sharing! Best of luck with your Wisteria Bonsai. I’ve never seen these seed pods on my wisteria and so I am curious if you’ve ever propagated wisteria from cutting? 👏🏻
I'm sorry, but unfortunately there aren't any left (besides the ones I repotted to grow as bonsai). If you can get your hands on some seeds they are really easy to grow.
I'm always happy to hear that the information that I try to pass on through my videos was helpful. Thank you and I hope your Wisteria seedlings grow nice and healthy!
Ha ha ha! It would be quite a huge forest planting since the leaves are so large. I would be really happy if I manage to get something nice out of the two that I decided to keep. It's a pity we don't have anything similar to your bonsai club (KW Soc.). I could have given the seedlings away to club colleagues.
@@OddBonsai Where do you live again? you probably mentioned it before but I don’t remember. Maybe you can just pot them up or leave them in the ground for natural growth, maybe they will turn out to be really good and you can use them later. You could also join the KW bonsai society for now at least, all the meetings are virtual right now.
I live in Romania. Yes, putting some of them in the ground could be an option (thanks for the idea) but not all of them. I think I got 20 or so seedlings, enough to start a life size forest :) When I mentioned the club I was thinking more about the live interactions in which you swap or give away trees/seedling/cuttings in addition to the knowledge sharing part. I know you're mostly meeting online know but still you manage to squeeze in something like a trunk swap and I would be glad to participate in something like this. I tend to plant all the seeds and cuttings that I get so it would be nice have where to give some away from time to time. I tried various plant groups but didn't have much success yet! :)
They're not very fast growers so they only got an extra set of leaves since I posted the video. I intend to document their development so I will make an update video with the 2 that I kept to grow as bonsai either this autumn or next spring when some trimming could be required.
Make sure you let the seed pods mature properly. You can collect them in winter and up to early spring, before temperatures get high enough to make the seed pods pop open. Until then you will surely enjoy the beautiful flowers and the great aroma.
I failed growing plants last year, but what gets me is my seeds are not shaped like a coin, they are like a small bean. This germination process seems much easier than what I followed, they wanted me to score the seed to promote grow.
They did not grow that much since the video. A few more leaves but nothing spectacular yet. Unless they gain considerable new growth I will probably only make un update eith a first trim in the spring. I'll let you know. Thanks for asking!
It's normal for the seed to soak in water when it rehydrates. The swelling of the seed is a good sign that it is still viable. It will swell up a bit even if it's a non-viable seed but not so much and it will soon start to rot if it's a bad seed.
Dear sir, could you please tell us which season to plant them in the garden? Is it okay to plant them in August and let the plant dry out in late automn? I live in Montreal, Canada. Does the young plant withstand the Canadian winter? Thank you for answering my questions.
Hello, I planted from seeds for 15?years it never flowers. It died in the winter, back to life in spring! Do you have any suggestion? Thanks! If any of you got flowers, please share your experiences how yours are flowers.
What do you mean when you say it dies in winter? Loosing its leaves during winter is normal for wisteria. If you have more serious dieback you may be living in a place where winters are more harsh? Dieback could a cause for your wisteria not flowering. If it has a vigorous growing season it should flower the next especially after 15 year.
Thanks for the informative video. What suggestions do you have on keeping the seeds moist without the mold? I have not had much luck of germinating the wisteria seeds. I look forward to your advice.
Too much moisture and too little fresh air usually encourages mold. In my case, letting the jar "breathe" every day or so helped in keeping mold away. If germinating in a jar like I did in the video did not work for you, you could try using the wet tissue approach. If that doesn't work either then I suspect the wisteria seeds could be too old and have lost their ability to germinate .
Amazing! I just starting growing them now, when i put them in a moist jar after hydrating them, one of them starting growing white mold on the top of it????
Get seeds, soak in water (rain water if you can) put the container in a cupboard for 2 days. Remove container and add seeds to a paper towel, add water to towel, put it in a cup and back to the cupboard. Check daily for root tails and plant when you have a few. Some seeds are slow starters.
It's been a while since I posted the video and since then I ran out of seedlings to give away. Sorry about that. I was surprised at how many wonderful persons offered to adopt the extra wisteria seedlings. Even though I could not accommodate all requests due to long shipping times that would have killed the plants they found new homes pretty fast. 😊
Send them to me! I have been wanting westeria for a year now! It grows wild along some of the roads around me! Was thinking of trying to find one that I could dig up with roots! But haven't!!
It's been a while since I made the video so I only have the 2 plants that I decided to keep for myself. Once established it's an invasive plant as you also noticed. So you can definitely collect a specimen off the side of the road. I'm sure some people would be more than happy to let you take one off of their property where they find it hard keeping it under control.
Since I just germinated my wisteria seedlings this year I can not estimate how long it would take for them to mature and bloom. The closest thing to what you are asking about is the experience that I had with my garden wisteria which was propagated from a rooted cutting about 1m high. It took maybe 2 years for the first flower to appear, and maybe after 2 or 3 more years it was already producing a lot of flowers in spring.
What an excellent video. I'm going to try it but I'm worried that it's too soon to attempt germination even inside....It's almost New Year and I think there isn't enough sunlight. Should I wait until March?
If you have a south facing window where you could place the seedlings after they germinate you could try it. The winter solstice has passed so days are only getting longer now. Then in spring you can move the seedlings outside.
