How we prune a Wisteria into a free standing tree - part 2, summer prune to encourage flowers

"Why is my Wisteria not flowering" is one of he most common questions we get asked in the gardening trade.
In this video Roger explains 3 of the keys to getting Wisterias flowering sooner
1 - choose a grafted Wisteria plant
3 - Plant in a sunny position
2 - Pruning!
Wisterias will put on loads of untidy leafy growth which can take many years to produce flowers. With careful pruning in mid summer and again in mid winter you can 'shock' the plant into producing the must sought after short flowering stems instead of the long leafy shoots.
In this video Roger re-visits a Wisteria that he is training into a free standing tree, here is a previous video showing how Roger winter pruned this 'Tree Wisteria'    • How we prune a Wisteria into a free s...   This time we are pruning in mid / late Summer (during August here in Wales, UK) which involves attacking all those long shoots of new growth.
The long shoots are cut back to about 5 leaves / buds ... Roger shows this process in detail, and explains how this then sets us up to do a second cut back of the same shoots next winter ...and hopefully more flowers next spring!