Friday, January 6, 2012

Is it possible to grow new crape myrtle plants from cuttings? If so, how?

In the late fall, when you prune your crapes, take the stems below the old blooms, and cut them in 6 inch pieces. Score the stem bases, (nodes pionting upward). Take four or five of these and wrap a rubber band around them. Then place them in a sawdust bed. Be sure to keep them moist. By spring, they should begin to sprout leaves. Or, you can take a small branch and put it in soil. They are fairly easy to propagate.

Is it possible to grow new crape myrtle plants from cuttings? If so, how?
I think you root them in sand with root hormones, I cut two down last year and all kinds of little ones came up and I dug them up and transplanted them...Good luck


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