Excellent guide to wisteria training. Lots of similar 'guides' just talk of pruning growing points to 3 or 5 buds... But this still results in explosion unwanted growth. This video tells you exactly how to do it right!

Best video I have seen on this subject by far. The other videos only explain how to prune an established plant - not how to manage a new plant in its first few years. This is what most people need to know. Thank you from the UK.

Very clear and helpful. I now might have the the courage to tackle my 50 year old neglected wisteria

Wish I had watched this 40 years ago.

Probably the best video I’ve seen on wisteria so far! Mine is going to get a haircut next month

My daughter and her husband just bought a house and there’s a trellis with two completely feral wisteria plants growing on it. This has given me a clear idea of how to help her rein them in. Thanks!

Excellent explanation and demonstration. This is the video I have been looking for.

The color coded illustrations are super helpful. Best video/instruction on wisteria pruning I've found yet. Thanks!!!

Definitely the best video I’ve seen on Wisteria pruning! The diagrams were super useful to understand. Wish I had seen it a few years ago. Some serious winter pruning coming up for my Wisteria in a week or two...

Really helpful information for someone who likes to give wisteria vine a shape to a tree from. I really appreciate him for this posting! I will try to find his additional videoes...

Best video i seen on Wisteria so far. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us 😊

Fantastic video . I was terrified of wisteria before this

Great explanatory video! Loved the illustrations, made it very easy to understand how to prune. I’m sure I will watch many times as I train my wisteria. Thank you.

this is super helpful! I just purchased a wisteria and would love more informational videos like these! : )

Nice diagram! Very helpful.

Thank you.Excellent video.

Very comprehensive tutorial. I just love pruning wisteria!

I’m thinking of adding one to my garden/yard and this is so helpful! I love plugging along outside trimming stuff so this is my ideal specimen lol

Best video I’ve seen, the little pics are so helpful!

Excellent video!! Thanks so much for the detailed explanation. Now I understand.

So very helpful - thank you!

Very helpfully explained thanks.

This is a fantastic video. Thanks so much for the clear explanation. We've recently bought a house with a large-ish wisteria that has been let go for several years with just minimal pruning. I've got LOADS of growth above the arbor that is out of control and didn't produce much in the way of flowers. I'm going to try to introduce some structure this winter. I'd love to see another video on getting a mature plant under control.

Thank you so very much for this detailed explanation and sketches even.... Now I have a clearer idea

Thankyou, mine is 25 yrs old. Will give it major prune in spring. Got the twiny whiny's all over the place!

Beautiful plant....50 years old wow!!

Great video! Thanks

Wonderful explanation! Thank you

Super description and practical demon stration.

Excellent guide. Very helpful. Thank you

Excellent step by step instructions!! Thanks!! 🌸

Thank you sir for this crisp explanation

Thank you, this is what I needed to see. We have an arch with two wisterias growing over it, one suddenly almost died two years ago, now revived, and the other one growing mad all over. I pruned both last year but the strong one keeps growing so needed to see how to properly tame it . I sometimes look at the houses with beautiful old wisterias - probably 30 years of age, and think they probably never get pruned!! Having watched a few videos I found similarities with how I prune my climbing roses. I think it is the same principle but I still need to work on my understanding of a wisteria. Thanks again!

Superb. Beautifully explanation.

Great video ! am now confident to hard prune my customers wisteria jungle.

May 18 2022 mine has finally climbed I’ve had it two years it is everywhere. And it’s balling up at the top of my pillar. This helped so much

Wonderful video thank you so much.

That was very informative. I just received a small twig of wisteria

Lovely, I do love wisteria 😊

Great video - thanks.

VERY helpful!!!

I trained mine on a wooden stake and it has a lovely canopy on the top with a weeping top, its easier for me to control it.

Fabulous 😊 thank you

Great video. I wonder if air layering works with this. They take so long it'd be cool to get mature plants from it. I'm seeing a few of these now.

thank you very much very helpfull, i have 2 young wisterias 😅 need to prune tomorrow

Great! Thank yew!

Thank you for all your advices! I did plant one Wisteria this spring and it s started to grow and spread with nice leaves. I has two strings/branches only. Please, let me know how should I prepare it for winter time?

Thank you so much, i just bought one yesterday, unfortunately it has no flowers on it so I'll have to wait and be surprised when it blooms in a couple of years😂 your tips were very helpful i will definitely try and follow them, i was wondering how close to the house can we plant them, how aggressive is the root system of wisterias, i just hope it wont go under the house and destroy the house

Hi. I’ve inherited beautiful wisteria with a house I’ve purchased 5 years ago. It is very reminiscent of the “night” of your drawing examples. The main plant has grown into a wall-like mass of 3”-5” intertwining trunks. I’ve only just noticed it’s trellised on an old freestanding wood gate about 4’x5’. Over the 5 years I have been pruning and trimming to relieve some beautiful huge blueberry bushes the wisteria had been choking out. It also has vines that have traveled and rooted as far as 20-30 feet from the main. It’s twined through fencing, other trees, the ground. I’ve basically been pruning to keep it from taking over but I’d like to start training it to be the best and most beautiful it can be. Do you have any advice or videos on training massive overgrowth both twining and encompassing neighboring trees and bushes as well as taking over garden bed ground cover root system? Thank you so much for your help.

This was fantastic. Any chance of doing a wisteria troubleshooting video? I have sudden dieback on a 40-year-old wisteria, and there aren’t really any videos out there, or much in the way of advice.

Over the years I'm guessing that the main trunk behind the gutter will push against the back of the gutter and cause issues. What would you do then? I have an older wisteria with the thicker main branches pushed through and started breaking the trellis structure.

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I planted new ones in the spring and they are doing well currently in the summer. However when I take the new young vines and move them to train them. The ends die back about 6 inches. Even though I am barely moving them??

Good advice that I could hear but a long parts of video sound was so low I couldn't hear it even though my volume was fully up.

Excellent video Edit: do you recommend planting this against a backyard south facing fence that separates part of my next door neighbors yard from us? We live in north east Oklahoma and in an area far enough away from any kind of exterior walls. The fence is average height about 6’ is my guess

Amazing video Ian! The diagrams were brilliant. I've neglected my plant and it needs some serious branch pruning - would you recommend doing this now or in Winter?

Any advice for taking over a plant that's not been pruned properly in multiple years? Sounds like you'd advise cutting it back quite far so I don't get the mass growth at the tips?

This is great! Thanks so much for such an informative video. If a wisteria has very large old branches that have not been trained correctly would you remove them over a few years? Is it pos to promote new growth from the base to train in as new stems? Im looking at renovating a large wisteria that is growing over a big pergola. Ideally would the stems wind round or just sit on top of the timber 'roof' with flowers dangling through.? Any advice much appreciated!

My wisteria is well planted flowering and beautiful and has been for years. I just bought this home, should I be pruning all new red growth from the root pool?

Omg I wish I would of seen your video before. My wisteria has fallen of the peak porch its so heavy its covering the entrance so I had to cut it I cut it at the bottom so when hoisting back up for now until all the beautiful fragrance flowers are gone iv not done a very good job over the 25 years and as you explained in the first drawing example that's it . Needs a good thinning out but I'm afraid I will ruin it and it won't flower . Any advice I would appreciate. Thank you

Could you explain how to grow a wisteria thats the same as the wisteria at the beginning of the video, one branch thats bald with flowers at the top. Im not sure if they grew one branch, or if they let it be bushy until it reached the disired height and then cut the weaker branches off at ground level.

Thank you for your excelent explanation! I need some advice. My Wisteria is about 7years old and one particular branch is over the neighbours property/evergreen. I choped it about 24'' from base. Unable to stop the bleeding! HELP?

i currently have the alternative ;( after 4 years planted. So I have some work to do this winter. Many of the vines have twisted on each other. Should I leave that alone or select one to remain and, piece by piece, prune out the others that are twisted on the main?

Does wisteria need wires or something to grow up or be guided by, or can you just grow it up a wall and it'll support itself?

This seems really good advice.. the diagrams were great.. but what if the house you’ve moved into already has a hugely overgrown wisteria with multiple branches intertwining and twisted.. I want to cut it all back, but your first diagram suggests this might just cause more problems on account on the root ball. I estimate the wisteria is around 7 years old. Does anyone have any advice please? I’m tempted just to get back and just have one or two main trunks going up

I have an out of control huge mess. Can I prune going into winter in Australia? It’s around 11-17c right now.

Does the wisteria root affect the foundation? Many blogs advise against growing it near the house due to roots getting under foundation, but I see them against buildings all over Europe. I would love to plant mine next to the house.

What if u missed pruning in 1st year(summer) is there a way to catch up in pruning in 2nd summer??? Tk u gr8 video

Mine has gone up my very tall Holly Tree and from the top of the Holly tree has taken over next doors tree I didn’t realise it had grown so tall until about 3 years ago it appeared at the top of the Holly tree and it started to flower for the first time. It must be about 7 years old. How do I tame it. Shall I just cut it back to its base?

Is it safe too plant wisteria right next too your home, I'm concerned about the roots damaging the foundation of my house.

When do seed pods form?

Hi, I planted from seeds, for 15 years never flowers! Any suggestion?

Ian, my wisteria has ended up like your first drawing. A big tangled ball of skinny branches. It stands freely in the garden and has no structure for support to grow up against. Not really sure where to start, other than at the bottom like you say. Wish me luck

What if we want the plant to keep flowering, but we dont want it to keep gradually getting bigger and bigger each year? How could we maintain it at the size of say the pink growth, or pink and blue, but not the green? and if it gets to the size of the green, can we bring it back to a smaller size?

ours lifted a retaining wall a couple of inches, it had to go

my wisteria is one year old and I dont know how to prune im live in ocala florida

Hi Ian, your diagram is fantastic where one can visually see how the framework is maintained. My wisteria was overgrown and needed a good hard prune this summer. I pruned the 3 main stems by 1/3, each now about 5 feet in length with about an inch of green growth at their tips; no side shoots or hand frameworks exist at this time. I saw your video after the fact so next time I won't prune so extreme. At this point, based on your diagram, should I see new growth/shoots from the sides and the tips in the spring? I assume those shoots and their own shoots should be pruned back to 12 inches or maybe shorter provided there is 12 inches of growth. I also suspect I won't have any flowers until the following year. Does this analysis sound about right to you?

Nonway would I plant anywhere near the house

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I'd be happy if it blooms at all.....lol

😅tired

i braid my vines

With my wisteria it is more like “how to time waste and attempt to tame wisteria”

Audio is very weak, please improve on future videos.

Omgoodness this is the into music to Christian prince - who debates Muslims lol He is famous in his Christian apologetics

This was painful to watch. Slow and meandering. I looked for guidance to "tame" a plant that hadn't been touched for 2 years from planting. The video shows what NOT to do ("butcher" the plant) then instead of showing how that unmanaged and excessive growth should be dealt with, the video goes back in time and shows us how to manage the plant from day one. So the solution is a time machine?