Pruning A Bonsai Wisteria

Last summer i took a conservative approach to pruning a chinese wisteria.

Pruning a bonsai wisteria. Young trees should be repotted every year and older. I am new to bonsai have recently purchased a starter wisteria that has just finished flowering. You will want to wait until the tendrils have grown a bit before cutting them back. It requires pruning twice a year.

Wisteria is a popular climbing vine that produces beautiful purple flowers. In the meantime i plan to let the tree grow freely until fall at which point i plan to prune and possibly wire some errant branches. I must prune back the new whipping growth look to where flowers may form. The first pruning clears the vine of any unruly shoots that might block sunlight from reaching the blooms.

You can prune the woody structures like branches and twigs after the leaves have fallen. Early spring or autumn is the time for repotting wisteria in a deep container. A dwarf wisteria bonsai. To have a head of flowers like those shown is something to look forward to.

Pruning the roots and plucking the buds keep the tree bonsai size. Pruning a wisteria bonsai it s best to prune a wisteria bonsai in the early spring or after flowering. Things needed pruning shears bonsai soil large growing container bonsai wire large bonsai pot. Once in the winter and once in the summer.

I shortened long runners down to five or six inches and leaf pruned to four to six leaflets see cutback on chinese wisteria for details. The second pruning tidies the vine up and helps encourage more blooms.