What do yall use on crepemyrles for blooms?
crepemyrtle
Nada...God does it all...I just add water. I trim it agressively in the fall because it only blooms from new growth. So don't trim unless necessary when it is green.
And please, please do not top your tree. Old habits die hard and this is now termed "Crepe Murder". I trim only the tips of the seeds at the end of the season. Even that is not necessary.
Christi
I don't fertilize mine either.
Christi...Can't stand to leave them. My neighbor has CMs on our fence line that he has only trimmed once. They are about 20 foot tall and only bloom high up, he never enjoys the blooms. They fall over on my side INTO my pond!
My CMs at the front get about 10 or 12 foot tall, and then I trim them back each year. They are thick and full of blooms. Even cardinals nested in the older one last year.
Guess it is just person preference.
Sure didn't intend to point a finger, Sheila. I often see crews cut them down to about 4-5 feet and leave horrible little nubs all over them. I purposely bought varieties that make trees. Can't remember the Indian name, but, they have white blooms and tend to appear to be weeping shape.
Christi
I have two that are about 30 foot tall and around 17" at the trunk I have never trimmed them and they bloom every year and are a great source of shade I say different strokes. Or it all depends on what you want from your tree. But they do like water.
This is one of mine from yesterday
Oh, my eye hurts Christi!! LOL!! No harm, honest.
I hate the Mulberry trees that they do that to, those are just plain ugly! Guess that is what you mean by nubs.
yep. Back in the day there was a lot of that going around. What they would do to Mimosa's was awful. Seems as though spring was spent deforming as many trees as possible. No wonder the average life of a tree in an urban setting was about 15 years. We had fruitless mulberrys that lasted more than 40 years because every 4-5 years we would have them thinned, not cut. One of them is still going....now 43 years old and we were told they only lived to 20. Not if you take care of them. Great shade tree.
Christi
Another crepe myrtle
I don't have much yard that gets lots of sun. I planted a crepe myrtle a couple of years ago and it hasn't bloomed. It only gets filtered sun at the most. Do you think it will ever bloom or should I just go ahead and move it?
Not and expert, but I think they do best in full sun.