Dividing and Overwintering Poet's Jasmine

I want to bring my Poet's Jasmine inside but the root ball is so big I'd need a 20 gallon container for it and I don't want a container that big in the house- no room for it. Can I divide my Poet's Jasmine? I'd like to bring half indoors and leave the other half in the garden

Also, any advice about overwintering Jasmine in the yard would be great.

Thanks so much

NYRunningback

first i wondered what poet's jasmine was, but then i found it in plant files, and it's the same kind that i have- they can get big! you can cut it way way back, and then saw the root ball in half, and then in quarters, however you need to divide it. it will take a bit to spring back, but not too long. the problem i have with this plant is finding a spot in the house that is cool enough so it will bloom....

Hi Sjms,
Thank you for the info. I didn't know poet's jasmine needed cool temps to bloom. No wonder mine didn't bloom during that hot humid summer we had! Do you know what temps are optimal for it?

Thanks so much,
NYRB

I have a potted jasmine vine that looks like Jasmine officinale in PF. I don't recall it blooming during the hottest part of the summer (upper 90's here), but it did have several nice bloom cycles while outside. I overwinter it in a corner of my morning room, where the temperature probably ranges from 60-65 at night and 70-80'F during the day (it's a sunny room). It's there now, and it is putting on a ton of new buds.... can't wait for that display of deliciously scented blooms! I just gave it some ironite (leaves had started yellowing and ironite seems to green them up), and it's rewarding me, I think.

I hadn't considered trying to overwinter mine outside, as I think Jasmine is pretty tender. Then again, I learned only recently (from Tropicman & others) that equally tender bananas can be dug up and overwintered at just-above-freezing temps, so.... Maybe somebody will know how to do it with jasmine!

i think when you buy this plant, it has been prechilled, and has lots of buds, that then bloom inside- the one i keep in my little greenhouse that gets down to 40-45 at night sets all kinds of buds, and blooms in february ?maybe... sometime in the winter- but the one that lives inside will eek out 2 or 3 flowers....hardly anything- and that room probably stays 65 during the night- i dont suppose it has to be as cool at night as in the 40s- but at least in the 50s i'm guessing.- for this climate in new hampshire, it would definitely not last the winter outsided!!- there is a little yellow flowered jasmine that blooms in the spring at my parents in philadelphia- zone 7- i think there are several types of jasmine, or plants with the name jasmine in them....that come from very different climates!

thank you for the info sjms and critterologist. I am going to divide the jasmine in half and bring half inside.
I also rooted a few cuttings, hopefully they will grow.