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Can I start wysteria from a cutting?

22 years ago

There are some huge old wysteria growing behind where I work. They are blooming now and are beautiful. I was wondering if I cut off a few tips and put in water if they would root so I could plant later in my backyard?? Thanks for all your help!

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  • 22 years ago

    I don't know about tips, but if you can find a runner that has "gone to ground" and rooted just cut it off. I put mine in water until it leafed, then planted.

  • 22 years ago

    I've never rooted a wisteria cutting from immersion in water. But I think you might succeed at rooting a cutting if you bury most of a length of a tip in shallow, loose, fertile soil, leaving some foliage at the very end exposed to light. Keep the buried part buried, covered with organic material, and undisturbed, and keep the ground moist but not soggy. As long as the weather doesn't go through what is an "extreme" of heat or cold for a wisteria, my recent experience suggests that technique will work (good luck!):

    Several weeks ago, after blooms faded, I pruned some ends of our wisteria that were vining in an intolerable, "gone wild" direction. (Our plant is a fast-growing monster that requires constant attention!) Most of the prunings were (just guessing) between 1 and 2 feet long. I piled them on a bare patch of disturbed (spaded) ground, and piled on top of them other weedings from nearby patches. The whole pile was maybe a foot tall; if I had picked up the whole pile and put it on a scale, I imagine it would've weighed 10 to 15 pounds.

    As is typical for me, I just forgot about the pile where I left it, never adding to the compost pile like I always mean to do. So I was cleaning up after a recent heavy rain (oh - and pruning the wisteria again). I went to move the pile (finally!) to the compost, and - sure enough - one of the prunings on the bottom of the pile had rooted.

    At first I almost panicked, because I did not think I had inadvertently rooted a cutting. I was worried that I had "lifted" a section of root from the original plant when I spaded the ground. I thought I might have created for myself many new monsters from the old, and would have to dig and hack roots from now until Kingdom Come, just to stop little wisterias from popping up all over the place.

    But fortunately, as I yanked on the obvious wisteria foliage jutting out one side at the bottom of the pile, out of the dirt peeled...about a 1-foot length of pruning, with little roots all over it.

  • 18 years ago

    I just dug some wysteria up and put it in the soil in my back yard. I also took some clipping and put them in water. Don't know how they will do, but it is my first try. Any other suggestions would greatly be appreciated. I understand they do not do well transplanting.

  • 18 years ago

    i like to root plants in a plastic bag, i fill it 1/3 with the stay green moisture control mostly cuz its really soft, and then get it wet but not too wet. then use rooting horomone, then i put that plant in the bag in the dirt. then i blow the bag up with my breath, and zip it shut, making sure its puffed all the way out. like a balloon!! for some reason in a couple of weeks they'll be all rooted. :')) works for me :')) water rots everything for me. i suck at that!!!! errrr!!! LOL