Another crape myrtle

Katie0317

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Mine is wide awake and almost completely flushed out. Repotted it yesterday. I was at a workshop and all the myrtles there for sale are still dormant. Odd, because that's where I bought my tree. I'm 90 minutes south.
 

19Mateo83

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@Hbhaska yours is off to a good start, I like the curves of that trunk. It’s budding out nicely too. I picked up one of these black diamond brand ones this past fall on the markdown rack to play with. I haven’t seen anyone bonsai one of these yet, it should make for an interesting tree.
 

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Joe_B

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Nice. One of mine didn't show any signs of life until sometime in June. My big one in the landscape is always the last thing in the yard/garden to wake up.
So bizarre, June really?
 

Hbhaska

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Update June 20, 2022: I let the tree grow freely and now pruned except a couple of leaders. I want the top cut to heal hence the leaders. Here’s before and after the cut back. The last one is close up after cut back.

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BrightsideB

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Looks good! How much longer are you going to keep it in that container?
 

BrightsideB

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Not yet. Just letting grow for now. I should probably cut this off as it’s starting to show some reverse taper.

May be not.

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This reminds me of an elm I bought. Almost exactly. I don’t have a pic but I though that the nebari was right under the soil line because I saw that flare. Once I went to reveal it I had made a big mistake. It was actually just a kink in the trunk with reverse taper and the actual nebari was 4 more inches under the soil line. Now I have to do an air layer on the trunk to salvage all my two years of development or start over. I’ll never assume I know about the nebari again. You should reveal it just so you know exactly what your working with. Specially if you plan to put in a bonsai pot the following year. Imagine going to put it in a pot and realizing the nebari is further down or it doesn’t look good with what you’ve been developing. But as far as the development on your tree. There are several ways to take care of the reverse taper. But personally on your tree it doesn’t really bother me. It looks good!
 
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Last weekend , I just dug a 8 foot tall Crape Myrtle out of my sons yard. Yours looks great. I will get a picture posted of mine. Thanks for sharing.
 

Hbhaska

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June 3rd, 2023 update.

The tree grew like crazy. I waited till the stems are lignified, then cut back to two or three leaves. After I was able to see the structure a bit more, got rid of unwanted primary and secondaries. Will let it grow and prune again perhaps once more during the growing season.

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