HELP!! wisteria climbing up near gas flue!!??

we have wisteria plant 3/4 years old!! it just about reaches up to boys bedroom now and last night i noticed that it was laying by side of gas flue!!


I went upstairs in bedroom and grabbed it and cut it back!!


It is fine now but I know they grow like crazy (summer)


Will it be fine leaving it here and just keep cutting it back or do you think it is risky??





thanks


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HELP!! wisteria climbing up near gas flue!!??
Since your Wisteria is growing towards the gas flue it is essential you trim it back... it is also the very practice that will make it the most beautiful it can be.





WISTERIA SHOULD BE CUT BACK!!! Many folks don't understand this- but agressive prunning of Wisteria is the only way to get it to bloom. (This is why you hardly ever see it blooming)...





Some points of information regard Wisteria as a weekly pruner... to be heavilly trimmed bi-weekly in the summer. (Some even suggest slicing into the soil 8 to 12 inches in a complete circle around the plant as to prune the roots. Otherwise the plant "feels no need to bloom". You won't hurt the plant--- I guarantee it!
Reply:Yes leave it, just cut it back when you see it starting to grow over the vet.
Reply:It will be fine - the new tendrills need cutting back each year at the end of summer to about 3-4 inches... this should then generate a profusion of flowers for the following year.





just keep cutting back any growth that gets invasive.
Reply:You are fine, as long as you keep trimming it.. A gas flue is actually two pipes, one inside the other. The inside pipe is the hot one coming from your gas appliance. The outer (cool) pipe is the one attached to your roof (or wall, wherever it is). There is an air gap between the two for heat insulation and safety. So, as long as you don't block the end of the pipe where hot air comes out, you are fine. That being said, you don't really want to keep leaning out the window and trimming so I suggest you train the wisteria to grow on a trellis that is routed somewhere else, like an arch over a window...but, not towards the flue. Then, you don't have to remember trimming it.
Reply:It is always risky to have anything potentionally blocking a gas flue. As long as you make absolutely sure that it is always clear there wouldn't be a problem, however, it is only human nature to forget.


My advice would be to cut the wisteria back hard away from the flue and like someone else said "train it away from the flue". But always keep a regular check on it.
Reply:what lisa means is use small rope and a stick...wrap the long limbs on the stick and tie them down. Dont tie them hard tho. angle the plant how you would like it and continue on....rinse and repeat.
Reply:not sure, however, you can train it/bend it/tie it to grow in another direction.
Reply:no harm will come to the wisteria but for safety you make sure that nothing blocks the flue this is vital for you and any body living with you co2 kills