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Pruning Chinese Wisteria (post #16401)

DCPinner on Sat, 02/27/2010 - 18:45 (updated 02/27/10 - 02:52) 
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Hey Folks.  I have two Chinese Wisteria plants in my yard.  They are absolutely beautiful in the spring.  I had to cut one b/c it was chocking out my pine tree.  It's been growing back but instead of having one main stem, I have multiple stems and each stem also branches instead of being solitary.  I tried pruning some of the stems to make a main stem but beneath the cut I get multiple sprouts under the cut resulting in more stems. 

So my question is, is there a proper time to trim a Wisteria so that you have only one main stem growing and when you want to prune extra stems off of the main stem when do you do it so that it won't produce more stems below that cut.  The only guess I can make would be during dormancy???

Thanks bunches

~Davis

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This link may be of some (post #16401, reply #1 of 3)

by KimmI in reply to DCPinner [original] on Mon, 03/01/2010 - 05:05

This link may be of some help, http://ohioline.osu.edu/hyg-fact/1000/1246.html

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Possibly tree paint for the (post #16401, reply #2 of 3)

by AstridElsaJo in reply to DCPinner [original] on Sun, 03/07/2010 - 10:51

Possibly tree paint for the cuts to at least curb some of the sprouts. I recall a huge wisteria which climbed up two stories high in my  chlldhood.

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I think growing Chinese (post #16401, reply #3 of 3)

by Karen in reply to DCPinner [original] on Mon, 03/08/2010 - 16:22

I think growing Chinese wisteria as a single trunk specimen takes yearly maintenance, in other words, there's probably no place or time to prune them that will keep them from sprouting more side branches.

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