JudyB
Queen of the Nuts
Here is a 1 gallon nursery stock Crape Myrtle that I have had for 3 years. I had it in a smaller ceramic pot for a year, then decided to grow it in a box to get some girth. The box has proved to grow the tree dramatically as far as branching and foliage, but the trunk remains the same basic size as when I put it in this box. I chopped all the branches back to the main trunk last spring, and have not cut it since then. This spring it took off, and the branches are getting almost as large as the trunk. This is in a 70/30 turface/pine mix for soil, with some rough lava chunks. I have a healthy dose of osmocote plus in it, and use a balanced liquid fert every week on this tree. What if anything can I do to direct the growth to the trunk? Thanks.