Wisteria Sinensis Seedlings, Part 2!

Hi everybody! I'm back! with 2 good looking wisteria babies!

So halloween is around the corner, that means my Wisteria is almost a month old. I've never been so excited over growing things besides the time when LO was in my womb...i miss those days..

Anyway, the two seedlings are doing really great for the past few weeks and they have not shown any signs of being limp. They unfortunately have outgrown their wine glass habitat and have no choice but to tolerate the conditions in my apartment for the moment untill i find a suitable new glass house for them.

Weather wised, it has been unpredicatable in colorado. Its very cloudy one day with a chance of frost and extremely sunny and warm the next. But this week, we are very lucky to have the sun shinning and little to no windchill.

As you can see, the third one have yet to sprout. Im beginning to worry that it is one of those duds...but i shall wait 1 more week. I somehow refuse to pry and poke my fingers into the soil to see if it's germinated.

My #1 is doing great so far without the wine glass over it. It has a new node that is going to sprout soon. The leaves are bigger, wider and are facing the direction of sun.

#2 is doing great also, it is slightly younger than #1 that explains its small size for the moment. But no worries, it will catch up soon!

Since the windowsill gets pretty chilly at night time and the apartment cooler, i would place them on my counter, because the vents are directly opposite my window. Many times the heat from the vents manage to kill my plants during winter and i do hope it won't kill my wisterias.

Since winter is approaching, i though of getting a small fish tank and growlight to continue its growth throughout winter, and most likely i would have to place it next to my dining table.

But for now, let them grow...

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Growing Wisteria from a Seed ( Wisteria Seedling)

Recently my husband purchased me a few packets of Chinese Wisteria Sinensis from ebay after much persuading.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Blue-Chinese-Wisteria-Vine-Wisteria-sinensis-Seeds-Fast-Showy-/271366088625?pt=LH_DefaultDomain_0&var=&hash=item3f2eade7b1

I fell in love looking at this beautiful tree online and research it before growing. I understand that this tree requires patience to grow; and patience is definitely i'm short of. Especially if it takes more than a decade to bloom, and growing from a seed won't gurantee lushes flowering either. Another challenge i have is the fact that i live in a basement apartment, and have no patio whatsoever to place and grow this outdoor tree.

But, i do have an east facing window in my kitchen. It gets really bright from dawn till 11am, and for the rest of the day, my windowsill gets light but more to the shady side.

So why not try growing a wisteria (bonsai) indoors? I have nothing to lose but a few bucks from purchasing the seeds, pots and soil.

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So i received my packet of seeds, and planted 3 of them about almost a month ago. It is fall by the way, which is the best time to grow. Followed the instructions, soak them in warm water for 24hrs and plant them an inch deep and waited.

If you noticed, i placed a bulbous liquor glass (wine? i think i don't drink) over the soil to act as a miniature greenhouse, trapping the geat and moisture supposedly to help it germinate better. It gets pretty chilly at night and the wine glasses act as a barrier against the chill and the hot drafts from the vents nearby.

So i planted them at the last week of September, and the first one peek through within 3 weeks! And the second one followed about a week later (4 weeks).

Throughout its very young stage, i kept the wine glasses over it all the time and only remove it during watering. I only water about a 3 oz worth of lukewarm water and whatever excess flows out at the bottom.


So for now, i just let it grow and i give you more updates in the next post! :D