While I don't have a video update on these specific cuttings there are some others I did in this video here:: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/bteRZal7zrudf6s.html along with some other plant propagation updates.

Hard wood cuttings are very easy to propagate , just take any new growth from previous year,(in jan, fed, or march) cut in lengths of 8 to 10 in, stick in Builders sand or good potting soil, keep moist (not soggy wet) no need for misting as there are no leaves, I do hundreds each year easiest method I've found.

Great video! I live in Central Florida Zone 9b and these are very adaptable to my environment. It's hard to grow much here, especially in the summertime, but these tend to thrive and keep on growing. Very low maintenance and easy to care for. I love these strategically placed around the property. I actually want to propagate these and I haven't had any success lately. It's great to hear what tips your using for this. I appreciate the help and information very much! Have a beautiful day 💛

Thanks for the video. I have always wanted to propagate some crape myrtles for some friends and here you are. I'm in Southern New England, zone 6a, crape myrtles grow well in my front yard. Slow growing, but they don't die back, despite the brutal winter we have had. It has been 6 years now since I have them in the ground, they've been blooming in the early Summer until the early Fall.

I just purchased two different kinds of crepe myrtle (the purple and enduring summer white). I'm excited to see what the outcome will be. Thanks for your propagating video. I do want to try to propagate both of them.

Great tips. Thank you. I am in 9b ~ Florida. I have a whole bunch of shoots coming out of 2 trees I just relocated. Wanting to propagate all the shoots. There must be 15 to 20 on each tree! So many crape myrtles! Good thing I've got the room to plant them all. Also.... what a great idea for the hostas I have. They will look so pretty underneath these trees.

Thanks so much for sharing the knowledge you have on propagation

I love the fragranced crape myrtles. I do this with my yellow forsythia bushes to create more.

Thanks! Wish me luck with a Tonto Red dwarf! I've been trying to root this for a year. Tried just water, tried soil mixed with sand, but haven't tried just sand yet. Appreciate it!

Thank you! One that I had growing just got snapped accidentally by my dog and now I’ll help it grow into many instead of it ending up in the compost pile. Appreciate the great information :)

We have them in Western Maryland mountains and it can be below freezing for January and Feb. The crepe mrytle does well here.

I trimmed a nice strong two year old Natchez Crape Myrtle in November, when it was unusually warm, and put a 12" long stick in the ground. It was about 1/8" in diameter. I had two others at the time. Winter froze all three all the way down to the ground. I waited but all of that growth was dead. The cutting is now my largest Crape Myrtle by far! It's about 10' tall and growing fast! The others are doing well now, about 1 1/2 years after freezing back because they have a good, strong root system but still much smaller than the cutting.

I need another Crepe myrtle for my landscape so Im going to try this! Otherwise I usually feed the suckers to my rabbits branch and all. I have my crepe myrtles trained as trees to shade my front porch, I love them!!

I just saw this video, I'm in India and there's plenty of it on the roadside so I picked few stems like you did to propagate! Thank you, I hope they root soon ❤ Also, ive used a mix of sand and cocopeat and its kept moist

Really hoping to learn how to do this properly. Haven't had any luck so far. They do well for about a week and then die. Not sure what I'm doing wrong. But I have one crape myrtle that's spouting all over the place from disturbed soil (we cleaned out an old garden bed) so maybe I can transplant those to a new location this winter. I want to use them to shade the back of my mobile home. It's so freaking hot here in Texas. Thanks for the video!

9 years in i have groups that grew into each other and made beautiful tree shapes that flower pink and white

Monthly care videos would be very helpful to those who are newbie gardeners. I know getting the watering and feeding down doesn't come easy to all.

Great video!

Great video! Thanks

In Fiji it's called Christmas Trees. It flowers in December. One of my Favourites.

Great video. Doing this today

I have found that if I followed the advice of a gardening book I have and I cut off about half of each leaf, it seems to stimulate the cutting to grow roots and new leaves. I have never successfully rooted a leafed out cutting when I left the leaves intact. Also the newer varieties like Natchez, Muskogee, and Tonto seem to be far easier to root than the older varieties such as William Toovey and Carolina Beauty.

Very interesting plant. 👍 🙂

Wow 😮 that’s Excellent to know Thank you so much!

Great video. Thank you for sharing your knowledge with us. Also is it possible to turn just a single cutting into a multi trunk crepe myrtle?

I had 2 that grew from seeds!! I never planted them, I noticed one day under my crapes that there was a small one about 3 inches high. I dug it out and replanted it, it's getting big. Now I have another growing in almost the same area, I'll replant it soon.

This is a great video!! Once they have developed roots; how do you actually transplant them. Move to a larger container with potting soil??

I'm experimenting with some cuttings myself but just learning how. My parents found out by accident that they will root easily when they put some cuttings in the ground as a border for something else. By the way, that large Crape Myrtle looks great but that vine that is growing in in will kill that tree eventually. I just spent a huge amount of time removing one from a Crape Myrtle and there was much less green left at the top afterward because what had been there was in large part the vine.

How would you go about getting a cutting from a new offshoot around the base of the tree and what should I look for? I am very new to propagating, so I also need to know what comes after the wet sand, how much light/darkness is needed, what temperatures (I live in central Texas so it's hot), and how long until it should be planted in the ground and the baby steps in between! If you know another video or blog post that goes over these, it would help me not fail! The way you showed how to trim the cuttings was very helpful!

Thanks Dave!

Thanks for sharing i want to do that also.. but my husband doesn't believed that i can plan even without seeds...i wanna try this too😊

Thank you so much will do

Dam I been using the hard wood. Thk u

Thanks for this helpful video! We did this and about half of the cuttings are flourishing after a month. When should we move them from wet sand to potting soil?

Thankyou for sharing

What a timely video to appear in my “recommended” inbox. I was just going to dig out some suckers from around my Dynamite Red crepe Myrtles. Do you have any videos on pruning mature crepe myrtles?

omg i love you man great video

If you want to put them outside on a old table with the legs in plastic cups or used large bottle drink container cut in half filled with water and rock salt because slugs can't tolerate salt. I did this around my and my Husbands house because I had put pineneddles around the house and slugs like pineneddles. My Daddy told me this it's true. So I got a bag's of rock salt, putting it tight, about 3 to 4 inches, (removed pine needles first) Well, hopefully you can try it. Old school, I love it 😊

not sure the differences. i got again from a seed a crepe myrtle. I grabbed a stem, guess my mistake was not trimming at the node, or using sand. Lucky me I did manage to do a Golden dew drop from a stem. but not a zone 10 plant for me Lol will bring inside that I am so impressed and shocked, going to grab another branch, and try to take your suggestion to it . thanks not many videos of it or people at my channel interested.

Where do you get the red sand you put the cuttings into..?.we have been called Zone 7 , but now they say we are Zone 8. We have a red/ruby colored crepe myrtle and have had it about 5 years. . Itwas supposed to grow to 6' to 10'. so I put in in a pot then under our eaves. It should've grown that tall but wants to grow to approximately 12'....so it loves it's position, but I have to keep cutting it back. It was glorious this last year of 2022.... thinking it has probably rooted thru the bottom of the large plastic pot that it is in so may cut the pot off and maybe report or plant someplace else ..My husband will be 82 this year and myself 80 so we're not into major "anything" even though the Good Lord has been helping us maintain our home and yard of just under an acre for 47 years now. SOOOOO glad you showed this easy process to start more crepe myrtles....our property could easily use two more...so I'll start several and possibly have some to give away😊

Is there any videos showing when/how you transfer from the containers to the ground?

Great video and thanks for the information. One question though? Should the cuttings be placed in full sun or in the shade, while waiting for them to take root? Thanks, in advance.

Should I use a growing bag for this and will I need to add water to the sand during the four to six weeks?

Would you provide more info on: where do you keep those new propagation while waiting for the root growth? when do you place them on the ground once the roots grow?

Thanks. Now I know.

Wish I knew this before buying one small tree of Amazon for 65 bucks....my neighbor has one already could have just used that...thanks though my fav tree

I’m in zone 8B and it is beginning of March. Can I take new spring cutting and put in sand on north side of building to propagate?

Thanks for this video! I planted mine in sand inside plastic pots with drainage holes, will that work?

Thanks for a great video. I've had good luck getting crepe myrtle to root using potting mix in Dixie cups kept in a large clear plastic tub. I just have not had too much luck afterwards once they root and new growth comes on. How moist should the potting mix stay? When is it time to re-pot them to a larger container?

I was successful to root a cutting from crepe myrtle tree. However I do not need another tree. Can I restrict the growth to just shrub in a 3 gallon pot?

I have seen beautiful crepe myrtle, that are half on color, and half another color, I am trying too root a pink, with a maroon, what do you think?

Do you have a follow-up video to this video? I'm just curious if your cuttings did get roots and how long does it take for crepe myrtles to grow roots? Thank you.

Thanks👍

Hi there! Is there a follow up video to this? Would love to see

Really wish I could have seen the leaf stripping part, did you strip the branch as well, or just removed extra leaves only?

My motherhas a big one in her front yard in Nashville.

Can you propogate this in water or use rooting hormone and stick in in the soil?

Regular sand is what I have to get with water to propagate ignition?

Hi Dave, great video. How often do you water the cutting and how much light do you provide in your garage? Best

Hi .. Thanks for sharing a great video.. I miss the part about the type of medium used for cuttings? Also, any advice on how to grow from a seed?

Hi. Thanks for video. I have question about soil. It's just yellow sand? nothing more?

Where do you recommend I keep the cuttings if I don't have access to indoor uv lights? How much sun should they be getting?

Any update on these rootings?

Hello! What is the process for suckers off myrtles? Is it any different than what you just described? Thanks

When it comes to planting the propagated cuttings what is the best method? I have a few in a pot currently and I’m afraid to pull them out and damage the roots. Can I plant the multiple cuttings together in one spot or will that not work because they will eventually each be their own trees?

Are you watering this sand every day.Do I just keep it wet.They won't rot? Good video and you have a lovely crepe myrtle garden.

Great

I have a question please, I found a crape myrtle behind my shed. It only has one 6 foot stem. Two branches off off it. How do i replant and branch it out. Any help will be greatly appreciated

Dave, I watched your video on crepe Myrtle cuttings. You planted them in sand and yogurt cups. My question is do you have to keep the sand a wet as in your video at all times? Cathi

Thanks for the good video. I had two questions. First, can it be cut at the end of winter? Secondly, I want to propagate evergreen trees in cold winters and hot summers climate at the end of winter, but I do not know how to propagate them. you can help me?

Lovely I just ordered some seeds online how would o propagate them I'm in the Caribbean.

I'm about to propagate from a pride of india plant at work. I'm just curious how yours ended up. Did you ever post a video of them?

i cut mine to that size but at some point id find that they were gone after awhile.not sure what was pulling them up ,im guessing a bird.now i go with taller thicker cuts and see what happenes.

Did you have holes at the bottom of those plant?

Hi Dave I have a few questions that I dont think were covered in the video and sorry if these are dumb questions: How much direct sunlight a day should the cuttings get? Should i be misting them to keep the leaves refreshed? Should I keep the sand moist or let it dry out after the first soaking? Thanks in advance!

Mine died during this years Texas freeze. So now it has shoots that have grown from the bottom of the tree. Had to cut the dead tree . Now they blooming profusely! Can I completely cut the old trees since the saplings have taken over?

My friend has an old 20 footer in his back yard. He has what looks like seeds and would like to give me some. I do not have room for a 20 footer, but could i use these seeds and control them to about 6 feet in a container?

Its Summer or nearing end of it here in NYC. I bought a Purple Magic Dwarf over a month ago and now its blooming nicely, but i do not see any opportunity to take cuttings as each branch has beautiful blooms still. I also have a 30 year old one that is over 20 feet tall and spreading out over 18 feet, and in full bloom as it always does here in late July. A friend gave me a hardwood cutting late this past Winter and for months it only shows 2 roots, about 1 1/2 inches long. I don't know what to do with it as Fall approaching and i am in zone 7b, like you, I think.

Help! I moved into a house in the country and live among the land of very old, gigantic crepe myrtles! I will deal with them eventually but there are roots where baby crepes are coming up. Can I cut the a section of root and plant it?

I found a variegated new growth at the bottom of one mine, dug it up cut it off the root and put it in water Do you think it would grow roots? I really want it to live

Can I use all purpose coarse sand I bought from Home Depot for this?

It looks like the containers don't have drainage holes, so the sand shouldn't dry out too quickly. What's your guidance for watering over the 4-8 week rooting period?

I'm in Zone 7 ( NYC ) when is the best time to do this type of cutting....August, Sept? Would this also work with a dwarf crepe myrtle? Also, do u know if a dwarf variety gives suckers?

Do you have a video or info on planting them in soil after they root?

Thank you so much for the great video! I've been trying to do this for a few yrs, (usually starting in August ) but the crepe myrtles don't survive. I made a mix of peat moss with the white stuff (perlite), as recommended elsewhere, in separate pots with bags over them to help retain moisture. A few of them have made it past this stage (I usually leave them on the porch and take them in the garage in early Oct. The one that made it as I transplanted it into the ground did well for a few months and then dropped its leaves in June. I love how you just use sand - much simpler. Do you think the peat moss may be the problem? I tend to only water when the peat is getting a little bit dry. Also, regarding misting, how often do you do that?

Is there a best time of year to take the cuttings? I am in Southern California and we have a lot of Crepe Myrtle in public spaces that I can pick up, with permission of course. Right now they are in beautiful bloom, so I would have the advantage of knowing which color I was getting. Thanks.

How often do you water the sand

I got gardenia last fall in a pot from Lowe's. I planted it in a bed right away. Its deep green glossy leaved survived through winter in 7b extremely well without falling or fading. But in spring it started producing lots of buds some became flowers but then the whole plant started turning yellow leaves and leaves fell and buds didnt open leaving few twigs. I put fertilizer, still not getting any better . what's wrong and how to fix? Thanks

Hi Dave, I have a question. I have a Tuscarora crape myrtle. Right now it looks like it has one trunk with many long shoots coming off the very bottom of the trunk. I want a multi trunk crape myrtle. Do I just raise the level of the dirt to where those shoots look like other trunks? If not how do I get multi trunks out of my crape myrtle?

I have mine outside near bright light but shaded, do I need to keep plastic bags over them for humidity (live in NC) and does the color of the bag matter?

How long do you keep the cuttings in the wet sand before transplanting to dirt/woodchips?

You seem to be well versed on crape myrtles. Can you give me an idea why the crape myrtles on my area (Northeast Texas - zone 8a) have not bloomed as well this year as in previous years? Every crape myrtle tree in our area did bloom, but only about a third as much as last year and the previous years. And the blooms seem to drop quicker this year also. Any thoughts would be great. Thanks in advance.

FYI beer in a saucer will kill your slugs. It's like a slug magnet. The salt in the beer dissolves them.

Can these grow in zone 5a

Can I grow a crêpe myrtle from a large trunk piece that I will be pruning off soon?

Can you propagate them in water?

I live in Alabama when would be a good time to do hardwood cutting

Hello Dave I have a question I live in St Louis Missouri. we actually have crepe myrtles here already that have survived through multiple Winters. I wanted to propagate my crepe myrtles. Should I wait till spring to do or do them now and keep them in side under a grow light all winter , I have a grow room. Then plant in spring? Please and Thank you!

Hi How long is their life span. We've had one on our property which may be over 40 years. It was there when we bought the property.

What time of year do you recommend to propagate? Thanks!