Arbor Day Crape Myrtle

[SFDrake]

Me and my wife donated to Arbor Day at the beginning of the year and I completely forgot. I don't check the mail very often so.....my guys might have been hangin out at the community mailbox for a minute.

Two packages;
10 bald cypress......one lived
10 crape myrtle.....eight lived

So i got them out of the nasa gel lubricant whatever and chucked them in the only thing I had, a mix of miracle grow organic crap, soil builder, and perlite, equal amounts. Watered regularly, and watched the cypress bud out and die.....sigh. The myrtles on the other hand, we'll dam!

Now my question is, is it to late to try to pull these guys back out and separate them, and get them in non organic....and maybe a little prune? When i received them I didn't touch the roots (which were plentiful) so I might need to start getting tap roots cut back....I'm lost here....

 

[Desert O'Piñon]

Just saw this. I don't have any advice to offer, especially since our climates are so very different. But those crepes look great! Too bad about the BC. Update us as you progress them!

 

[Wulfskaar]

I think I would just wait on the repotting. They are actively growing, so I wouldn't disrupt that.

 

[SFDrake]

Just saw this. I don't have any advice to offer, especially since our climates are so very different. But those crepes look great! Too bad about the BC. Update us as you progress them!

Hey that one little leftover bc is doing great, and i see something special in it in maybe......15 years..... They grow wild all around me and I've been on the lookout for yamadori. Seeing @Cajunrider post all of his trees has motivated me (made me pretty jealous as well), just don't know where to go without catching a bullet these days. Planning on joining a club sometime soon so maybe that will steer me in the right direction

 

[Desert O'Piñon]

Hey that one little leftover bc is doing great, and i see something special in it in maybe......15 years..... They grow wild all around me and I've been on the lookout for yamadori. Seeing @Cajunrider post all of his trees has motivated me (made me pretty jealous as well), just don't know where to go without catching a bullet these days. Planning on joining a club sometime soon so maybe that will steer me in the right direction

Yeah, Florida is its own country within the United States!
You also have to watch out for
Gators
Pythons
Monkeys
Panthers
Armed humans (as you pointed out)

Once you join a club, you will get the inside scoop on the best collection locales. You might even meet locals with decent BC on their property.