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I also like mine to flower but cut them off at 60% when they start to lose the perfume and vibrancy. I have cut flowers though when i have collected or am developing a tree and trying to bring it up to optimum health. I think the flowering takes some effort for the tree and cutting them off puts that vigor back into the tree. But, hey, we are talking about a weed.

Hack, to each their own, another downside of letting floribunda flower fully is its propensity to set seed, unlike sinensis, its all energy that could be better used for growth, which this baby still needs lots of.

Bodhi, I do the same with my big sinensis, as soon as the first flowers are getting to there end the whole lot comes off. The tree definitely thanks me for it

looking great Matt, as ive stated i have 3 of the transplanted wisteria i took form work shooting out of 6 if they flower ill take pics for all i was hopping to get all 6 to live so i can pass some on but if its not meant ot be its not meant to be

cheers J

looking great Matt, as ive stated i have 3 of the transplanted wisteria i took form work shooting out of 6 if they flower ill take pics for all i was hopping to get all 6 to live so i can pass some on but if its not meant ot be its not meant to be

cheers J

A few days on & the racemes are in all their glory... One benefit of having flowered is I now know how much room to give them in the styling, a surprise is the length of between 50 & 60cm compared to that listed by Peter Valda in his book on Wisteria (33.5-36.5cm). As I have always envisaged an upright tree, for myself, it reaffirms the need for a larger size bonsai to show off the flowers at their best, without having them drag in the dirt

After a bit more bending.

I found a website that would interest you located in America's tropical Florida . You can find it either in Facebook or Google it is Erik Wigert's Bonsai Nursery. It has some great photos of Bouganvillias and also some practical demos on Utube. Amazing work by a young enthusiast.

Hey Ric, I am familiar with Erik's work, particularly for his love of BIG trees. Its one of the many benefits of this computing age, that we are able to see & discuss what others are doing all over the world, it has been a definite boon for my own bonsai.

The large first branch has been layered off so it was time to tighten the bends a bit more. Nest spring it will be dug & replanted on the edge of a raised bed to allow the lower bends to be tightened taking the first branching below the eventual pot line.