How to dig up and plant wisteria? A full breakdown of the detailed method

The beauty of wisteria fits the Chinese aesthetic sensibility. Planting a wisteria in the courtyard, the spring scene of purple mist filling the gate is truly intoxicating, so wisteria has long been a very common courtyard flower variety. Most wisteria is transplanted from the mountains. How do you dig up wisteria?

Wisteria has strong vitality, and it can be transplanted during many times of the year. Good-Photography Farmer once used a wisteria trunk as a fence post for a vegetable plot, and unexpectedly that trunk section later sprouted and survived, which shows how easy wisteria is to plant and keep alive. Of course, the best transplanting season is from after Frost's Descent each year to before Qingming. During this period, the sap in the wisteria trunk stops flowing, and transplanting is less likely to cause stunted growth.

The wisteria in the picture was transplanted by me from the mountain during the 2016 Spring Festival (the eighth day of the first lunar month). Its diameter was about 15 cm. Wild wisteria can grow very long. When I cut it, I cut it to 3 she tall, because there is a 3 m tall frame in the courtyard at home, so after planting it this way the old vine could grow out onto the frame. Wild wisteria stumps do not have strong taproots, but have many lateral roots. Also, wisteria roots are relatively tough, so when digging them up you must bring a saw, otherwise it is very difficult to cut through the lateral roots with just a hoe. After the old stump is cut, cover the saw cut with a plastic bag after transplanting to prevent it from rotting due to absorbing too much water.

In the spring of that same year, 2016, it did not bloom; it only sprouted many new buds, and then the new vines spread out winding around the frame.

When it dropped its leaves after autumn that year, I applied some NPK compound fertilizer to help it overwinter. In the spring of 2017, the wisteria bloomed a lot. When wisteria blooms, the leaves have not yet emerged, so what you see is a mass of purple, very beautiful.

It is not difficult for wisteria to survive transplanting. Grasping the right season can make it rebloom faster.