Hello, everyone.
A year or so ago now, I moved to Mississippi.
I lived in Pennsylvania prior to this.
Anyways.
There's two Wisteria shrubs growing out here.
There were others.
They were pulled out.
I can post some images.
I can't recall if I've posted about this here before.
I will try and see if I can't get images again. I'm not 100% if this is the best to post this.
Anyways, the Wisteria were overgrown.
My mother cut some shrubs and things with loppers and a saw.
Since then, the shrubs leaves have become yellow and have been turning brown and drying up.
I've figured that some sort of disease has been transmitted from tools or something.
The issue wasn't here prior to us moving.
The shrubs are pretty old.
I was researching some plant genetics and GMOs earlier.
Eventually I was looking at Arabidopsis thaliana and Agrobacterium tumefaciens.
It's pretty impossible to obtain the one. And probably illegal to make anything with.
Either way.
I came across the fact that it causes galls on plants.
And I then remembered that the Forsythia at home, was covered in galls.
Some golden rod plants nearby had some galls, as did some Rubus occidentalis.
And I came across a link almost immediately after thinking about that, of Wisteria with near identical symptomatic leaves.
I haven't seen any galls yet. But, there's not a ton of new growth doing much of anything yet.
And I'd imagine that the stuff would transfer from upper growth to the
roots and things, so maybe immediate new growth wouldn't be as apparent at first.
Plus we had high heat and things for awhile.
We also had Rhododendron, Azalea and other things.
So it could be other issues.
Others said to give it a season and the Wisteria would come back.
My parents don't clean their
gardening tools.
Which. Appearently is bad.
Wisteriopsis reticulata is also growing here as well.
But it wasn't cut up.
As much.
Should I just go ahead and kill the shrubs?
Wisteriopsis reticulata, has some bean pods on it at the moment. I've also found some stray seedlings near the vines.
They're on an uplifted area by a
fence unlike the Wisteria.
I'm probably going to try and collect seed from these and plant them elsewhere.
Or something.
I was hoping to collect seeds and eventually graft Wisteriopsis and Wisteria, to try and see if their growth habit or flowering times change.
I wanted to see if I could try and cross these things.
One flowers in the spring apparently, and the other is a mid to late summer sort of bloomer.
They probably won't overlap in flowering time.
Grafting may be out of the question now.
Does anyone have some advice on what to do here? I've heard that woody plants don't recover from crown gall.
