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Dear all.

I have started growing from seed a Wisteria sp. and I have realise that grows crazingly fast and a vine tree that it is.

My questions are:
- when to repot to a bigger pot and how big should it be? (last time I repotted something it almost died - still barely alive)
- should I do something to bound/contain its growth? and how?
- Is there any specific soil for it?

will attach today pics

thank you for your help

Catarina wrote: Dear all.

I have started growing from seed a Wisteria sp. and I have realise that grows crazingly fast and a vine tree that it is.

My questions are:
- when to repot to a bigger pot and how big should it be? (last time I repotted something it almost died - still barely alive)
- should I do something to bound/contain its growth? and how?
- Is there any specific soil for it?

will attach today pics

thank you for your help

It can easily grow in there for a couple of years, but the growth rate will be limited due to the size of the pot.
I'd be more concerned by the environment: that plant should NOT be inside. Keep it there and it will indeed die.

Give it the biggest pot size you can, keep it outside, and let it grow. In a couple of years you will look at it and see a design that gives you a plan for the tree. When that happens, fit the pot size to the design.

Catarina wrote: Dear all.

- should I do something to bound/contain its growth? and how?

thank you for your help

What you want is maximum possible growth, at least that is what I would want.

There are many years left before it can be called a bonsai, so why prolong that?

Note that wisteria is mainly grown for its flowers. Very few have a trunk that is interesting enough to be looked at (But I have seen amazing trunks).
To get it to flower it needs to have a certain age (9-12 years I think) and it needs to bulk up a little. ALso for bonsai purposes you want a thick trunk. The only realistic way to get a decent trunk is by planting it in the ground. THat would be my recommendation.

I undertand now. the only way to thicken the trunk is to give freedom to the root to grow. once it is thicken then we can bonsai it. sorry very beginner here. had several seeds in a kit. wisteria was the first to germinate.

thank you

Catarina wrote: I undertand now. the only way to thicken the trunk is to give freedom to the root to grow. once it is thicken then we can bonsai it. sorry very beginner here. had several seeds in a kit. wisteria was the first to germinate.

thank you

Exactly.
THe art is then in deciding how to grow the trunk: WHen do you cut the tree back to get some taper in the trunk. Do you wire young trunks or do you use cutting down to create some movement etcetc.

Learning how to do this and create pleasing results is hard and some people never learn. Looking at lots of bonsai in person and finding the scars that led to where they are now is a good way to understand how great bonsai are grown.

do you know where can I learn how to better grow them? here are several general guides but for exemple didnt say much this thicken trunk...
i believe this first 1-2 years arevery importantr, transplanting from nursery pot to... where exactly..
cant find much info about it

thank you

名媛直播 clubs and schools are good places, but a little harder currently to get to.

I have tried to put things together as I was learning, but I am sure it still is not easy to follow:

In the end, you will have to read a bit, experiment (So grow more, much more, than you think you want to keep; I must have given away / sold over 500 trees in the 9 years that I doing bonsai now. Now again I have some 200 seedlings from this winter to play around with). Seed is cheap if you buy it from regular seed dealers, so not bonsai dealers. And if you look in gardens that are being renovated or ebay-like websites you can often find more mature plants to work with. In the end it comes down to working loads of plants, looking at many trees and "getting a feel for it".

amazing advice thank you for that. will get more seeds