wisteria cuttings??

[agnes_day]

there is an old house down the road from me with tons of wisteria vines..is it possible to take a cutting and somehow make it grow? i would love to do that and have it cover this ugly bush in the front of my house. how do you take a cutting anyways? they smell so good and are so very pretty.

 

[FLOWERPOT]

I think you need to plant a root. The roots spread though, so it should be easy to dig a root.
However, I feel like I should warn you how invasive wisteria is here. I cant kill the sucker! It tore down a part of the deck that it was planted next to. And you really need to study how and when to prune it or it looks like .....

 

[agnes_day]

how would i dig a root? this thing is growing on a fence.
i have heard they can be pretty invasive, but i dont mind. it cant be any worse than this huge ugly thorn filled bush creature we have growing..i have tried reining this monster in but it keeps growing so i am thinking we could just cover it up with wisteria, hopefully.

 

[FLOWERPOT]

Mine threw off shoots that grew in the yard, where the root shot over and a plant grew up from it.
Some of them were some distance from the mother plant too.

 

[cityslickers]

They grow under groung and can be 12 feet away...maybe you can find some shoots

 

[thebritt]

BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU WISH FOR...you just might get it! This plant will take over your world! I planted one near a cedar tree, and it has now become one with the tree. (took 3 years). My bad. Lots of work ahead to save the tree. Much worse if planted near a building. The tendrils reach between the eaves of a roof and can separate the roof from the house!

. May be ok if planted in a 1/2 barrel away from a building, but needs something to climb on. I love the fragrance as well, and had a vision of jasmine and wisteria whafting thru my bird garden. w
Wisteria did fine, jasmine not so much

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[sgtmom52]

Quote:
Check out this thread ~ https://www.backyardchickens.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=331496

 

[agnes_day]

i saw that..wow!
still though, it would be better than what we have now!

 

[flgardengirl]

You can root cuttings by taking a 6-8 inch cutting of the vine where it is a little bit woody on the stem. Leave one or two leaves near the top of your cuttings and trim off the rest. Use sharp clippers when doing all this and make your bottom cut near a leaf node (bump where a leaf once was) Dip the bottom of the cutting into water and then into a powdered rooting hormone (Rootone is one found at ace hardware or kmart but there are different brands of hormone). Then put the cutting in a pot with potting soil and some perlite mixed in about 50/50. Take a few sticks taller than your cuttings and place at the edges of the pot and put some clear plastic over it to provide some humidity. Make sure you put the pot in a shady place and mist the cuttings and soil around them every day or so. They should root for you in a few weeks sometimes they take longer. You can put several cuttings into the same pot.

 

[SallyF]

There are two plants that I can't believe someone would actually WANT in their yards. One is Pampas grass and the other is wisteria. I spent twenty years in Charleston SC cutting those ropy runners of wisteria out of my yard, and it was a brand new battle every year. The Pampas grass I finally took a mattock to and just beat it out of the ground. Every time I saw anything that looked like it trying to sprout again I dug it up and burned it. Finally got rid of the grass but never won the battle with the wisteria. I suppose for the sake of diversity I should be glad that somebody loves those two weeds!