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Chumono
Thanks for the pictures Paul. They give a sense of scale, not only as to the size of your wisteria, but also the amount of flowers! Beautiful tree
Just out of curiosity, did you collect a stump and grow out all the current branches from scratch? My thought on my wisteria was to eventually cut it back to about a foot from where the trunk splits into subtrunks, and grow out new branches from there (probably cut it back to around the top of my second picture). Just wondering how long that would take. Not that I'm in a hurry or anything. I left plenty of length on the subtrunks to account for likely dieback. One this initial set of chops, I don't think there would be that much dieback as last fall it already started pushing new growth from within a half foot of the ends of the chops. I imagine that it will take me a few years to slowly chop back to where I want to start the branches.
All my wisteria bonsai were collected stumps.
And yes, all the current branches were grown from scratch. In my experience, wisteria will bud back profusely on old wood.
The only time I experienced any die back was when I did not properly seal the cuts. If you do not seal the cuts there is a very good chance that rot will set in and ruin your efforts.
Cheers,
Paul