How to Manage a Wisteria Bonsai 

I just got a job at a landscaping company and I can get all the throw-away plants/trees that I want from the "dump" pile! Plus I can take any cuttings from pruning everything. Needless to say, I'm bringing home lots of plant possibilities for bonsai projects, and learning about different ones that I didn't even have access to look at before I got my job. In addition to purple wisteria with a fragrance, and Star Jasmine, I get to experiment with Indian Hawthorn, all kinds of yews, Elaeagnus (Silverberry), all kinds of hollies (Needlepoint and Nellie), standard maples, jap maples, crape myrtles, oaks . . . Wish that I had a way to send you all my hundreds of cuttings! :)

I've been waiting a long time to find pruning wisteria, much appreciated!

Fantastic video sir . All my respect and appreciation.

This video is very timely. I dug up my first wisteria this spring. It had so few roots I was certain it wouldn’t survive. Well not only did it survive it is thriving. Thanks, keep growing

Some colours of wisteria I never knew existed. An amazing array you’ve collected over the years!

My favourite type of tree to grow and I love producing Wisteria Bonsai.

I can't help feeling sorry for Mr Chan, I used to have a youtube channel some years back and the obligation to followers can be a little heavy on the shoulders at times. It becomes another job in itself and with everything else he has to do, can just add to the work load, no matter how much the person enjoys it, it can feel a burden at times when we aren't in the mood for it. Having said that, I have just purchased my white wisteria to keep in a pot, I have read that the Japanese wisteria grows clockwise because of how it grew many centuries ago, because Japan used to be in the Southern hemisphere but moved to the Northern, but the wisteria from Japan refused to adapt. Interestingly enough, in Southern hemisphere places, tendrils grew this way whereas in the Northern hemisphere tendrils grew anti-clockwise, as does the water flow in the plug hole of a bath? I am in my 50's and have only just learned this interesting fact about why things grow either clockwise or anti-clockwise. Thank you for this informative video, I look forward to growing my first wisteria bonsai, I am sure one of many to come thanks to your wisdom :)

This photo of the Wisteria show Chelsea flowers is impeccable so beautiful

This man has sowed a seed for me to begin my bonsai journey!!!! Thank you sir.

Beautiful flowers at this time of the year is what I needed. Thanks Peter ♡

Wisteria Bonsai is beautiful. Wonderful flower.

🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹 thanks Peter

Thank you Dr. Chan.... dealt with Wisteria for 65 yrs, still learning new things,,, from you....

Again nothing left to ask ! everything explained.Thank you Peter

Thank you for a lovely showing of your wisterias and the pruning tips. Very much appreciated.

I was just thinking about starting a few wisteria. Always awesome to see your videos Peter.

Awesome! Wisteria trees are one of my favorites.

So many Wisterias 😍, thx for sharing Peter... 👍

Thank you for posting this. I have been wanting more information on Wisterias for a long time. I just love them. I am surprised that the wisteria you showed at the Chelsea Flower Show is a picture I have admired for years, glad to know it's one of yours. I have been missing flowers a lot this year. Thanks to a long visit to family far away this year, my garden went unattended and I really don't have any flowers to enjoy. Mainly thanks to a patch on miniature pumpkins growing all over them. My bonsais were safely taken care of at my parent's house.

Thank you for this extremely useful information. Your knowledge and time are very much appreciated!💞

I remember maybe 6 months ago you worked on a customer's wisteria, it had bloomed a bit early because it was kept in a greenhouse. The trunk was straight at first then leaned to the side, with a branch coming from the outside of the "elbow". That tree motivated me to buy a wisteria THAT DAY, lol. In the past 6 months it has taken over my fence 😂 Can't wait til spring so I can get it on it's way. Thanks for the info Peter!

Thank you so much sir for sharing this information about wisteria

Very informative. Thank you

Wow... thank you ... always inspiring... Looking at my tiny plot and l attempt to do my best.... thank you.

Thank you so much for your wonderful video of wisterias; it is one of my favorite plants, and I learned so much from you, again thank you very much!!!!!

Love those flowers

Great info Peter. We have a couple of wisteria - a larger garden plant next to my arbour/Japanese style tea house and a much smaller plant bought specifically to bonsai at a future point. The information here will be very useful in managing these trees. 🙏

Very informative video thank you 👍

Awesome Mr Chan 💜

Thank you for this video! Tutorials about wysteria are pretty rare. As i have one in my garden that i would like to turn into bonsai, i would have been interested in some tips to dig it out and put it into a pot... I love your chanel !

I brought my Wisteria into the house because it's getting cold in New England. Today I looked at it to see if it needed water and it was covered in spider mites 😭. Luckily I have some spider mite spray, and I'll continue to watch it. When I bought it, it was just a stick, and now it has leaved out pretty nicely, no blooms yet though. I can't wait to see if/when it blooms.

Very helpful! A video on shaping a weeping willow would be helpful as well. Not many videos on these types of bonsai tree

I have a Chinese wisteria in my back yard. Planted 2 and a half years ago. This year it bloomed multiple times, almost all summer long. 🙂

just bought my first bonsai kit! I'm excited to try and grow some wisteria. Wonderful video!

Вы очень хороший мастер!

Very nice I love it

Brilliant video! How do you go about starting a new bonsai from a young plant? Do you have a video on shaping or forming the main structure from start? Thanks

How long will it take for a wisteria to flower? we have one since 4 yrs and we have not seen a flower yet. What is the best care to give this wonderful plant and how do I nurture it properly? Thank you!

Hai salam kenal saya dari Indonesia, ini bonsai yang indah sekali kawan, saya menyukai vidio anda

One of my favorite plants for bonsai :) Thank you Peter! More videos about it please :)

This video inspire me so much.... i have 2 nice pices of chinese wisteria 1st year in my collection - and now am thinking what to do with 2 meters long shots :D

I love that airplane.

Thanks

Great video and I can't wait to start a wisteria bonsai...the flowers are just spectacular. What type of soil mix did you find has the highest success rate? Thanks again for another great video.

there ara some changing colour of the leaf from initial till mature

I have a wisteria from seed since 3 years now and i'm keeping it fairly small but always try/error, atoday i was wondering "when the hell and how am i supposed to cut this plant" well, glad to see peter chan got my back

Superb 👌👌👌

Sir, I watch every video of you. I like it very much. Thank you sir. খুব সুন্দর বনসাই বাগান।

My 3 year-old honeycrisps have under-stalks. I just found out you need a different variety to pollinate. I think I'll leave the under-stalk.

Cool

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Karya seni bonsai Anda sangat indah

So which one has better growth, clockwise or counterclockwise? Have you tried an experiment to see which one is best? Just a thought.

Nice fadora😎

How about putting the cut branches with buds in a vase of water for a nice display?

…and now I’d like to have a wisteria! 😅

Could you please do a video of the serissa that you sell?

Hi Ken, I have a number of Bonsai.. probably only 6 wisteria. One of which has a knotted root, probably my best one but I worry it will choke itself in time. Should I tackle the root nibari now and remove the choker or will it be fine without intervention? If it were any other root system I would have done so but so many Wisteria I deal with on houses seem to manage but they are bigger plants under less stress. Thanks for this video it was very helpful!

I got my 1st wisteria yesterday and its just a single trunk about 16 inches tall with 5 branches all at the top 1/3 of the tree. Looks like its 8-12 months old, I was wondering if I could cut it in half without killing it and if that would produce 2 new shoots below my cut?

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Peter thank you for this amazing video. I was wondering how long does it normally take to get flowers on the Wisteria? My tree is now about 10 years old however I haven't gotten any flowers. Thank you for your outstanding work.

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Hi Peter!! I love your videos, and the effort you make to share your knowledge with us. Thank you!! I do have a question for you: Can you air layer Wisteria? Any advice for us on doing that, if it IS possible? Lots of love, Peter!!

Can you air layer wisteria? I've never tried! But seeing all those big vines makes me want to try to air layer some of them.

I've tried growing Wisteria from seed and cuttings, no luck. I tried different methods, soils, etc. They sprout and in a month they're dead.

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I have a young Wysteria growing bit it has 3 roots coming up , how do I get it down to just one do I cut the other ones off

I airlayer a top of an Wisteria .its 4 years now and still no flowers???

Question. So you mentioned at 7:48 about the vine going around clockwise and that it is sinensis. At 17:50 you mention that it’s Japanese going clockwise on the tree. Just curious which is which. Also, how else can you tell the Japanese and Chinese wisteria apart? Looking to buy one

I have been reading that following the very hot, dry period we experienced in the UK caused many trees and shrubs to react as if it were autumn. They simply retracted all the sap from the leaves as a defence and the existing leaves just turned brown. There was no amount watering that could stop this. Strangely, some of my plants did this, and others didn't, even two of the same species reacted differently to each other. They all got watered the same.

I keep wisteria in pod since couple of years. I didn't see even one flower. I don't know why???

Which of the soils that you guys sell should I buy to repot my jade bonsai? I'm having trouble picking one because there are so many out there. He is mostly indoors and I have a grow light and he's in a west facing window.

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Thank you! I was wondering how far back to cut. Here wisteria sinensus (?) is behind one of the row houses. The man never pruned it, maybe cutting every 3 years or so to keep the walk way clear. It stopped flowering. I cut it back a lot and discovered the next year that many long tendrils do not over winter in a colder climate, so I had many dead canes instead of flowers.

I grew a wisteria from seed in 1990... it never bloomed... so I put it in the ground in 2000... still hasn’t bloomed☹️.... Md, USA zone 7

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I have been wanting one for a long time, but they are hard to find here. Many of my "go to" bonsai supply nurseries, just dont have them often.

Muzete, prosim, ukazat roubovani malych semenacu vistarie? Kdy brat rouby, kdy roubovat, jak mezitim uskladnit rouby. Nemam zadnou zkusenost s roubovanim, ale mam semenace☹️🙂

At what age/size would you pot the seedlings? I have ones that are a similar size and age to yours - at the end of the video - and I'm not sure when to pot. Any advice from anyone would be appreciated!

Mr Paul Chan, somehow remind me of The Julia Child of Bonsai.

Apparently, they are super easy to air-layer. This is exciting news to me :) A word of warning on sawing Wisteria - the wood is toxic and carcinogenic, so absolutely wear a lot of protective equipment, and do not try to make sculptures out of the wood. Wisteria wood is often used to imitate persimmon wood, because it is so inexpensive and easy to grow compared to persimmon - but yeah, toxic furniture is not fun to own.

How much for one plan

💕Can wisteria be grown from the cutting’s like the ones you were cutting off ?💕

Can I chop a Wisteria on the trunk and it grow back as I don't want it so big its still in a pot but about 2ft tall

Can you just put the pot sitting in water about 1/3 way up in summer? That way watered always. My willows sit in water all summer & winter. Does great,

I'm not pruning mine anymore because I nearly pruned them in to extinction and they are taking tooooo long to recover I'm heavy handed with the pruners....lol......

Can you leave Wisteria in water? Or will that cause root rot.

Do Wisteria stay outside all year long? Are they winter tolerant?

They grow in a wisterious way ... 😂

Just found springtails on an indoor ficus. Anyone have any tips to get rid of them them? Any insecticide that's safe?

beautiful I'd love to try to work with it I love your channel and you've been a defacto mentor of mine through your channel id love to hear what you think of my work @poor guy bonsai

Very informative, thank you

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