HELP! Crepe Myrtle Crisis!!!

[hqueen13]

We had some rather stiff breezes this afternoon prior to a storm rolling through tonight, and I looked out back and half of my Crepe Myrtle that was growing so well split and broke!!

I am so sad!

This is what the break looks like:

It is still somewhat connected, I can't easily pull it away, I'm going to need to cut it off.

Does anyone know if I can take this and plant it in a bucket with some serious fertailizer booster of some sort and get it to root??? It seems really healthy otherwise, I think the heavy blooms at the top are what caused it to split.

Any suggestions??? I certainly wouldn't complain if I ended up with another piece. I'll have to trim what is left to allow for another piece to grow in its place. I am bummed because out of the two that I planted a few years ago this was the straighter better looking one. The other is oddly squat and more twisty and crooked. I'll be working on it next time I prune in late winter.

 

[Beekissed]

You could try a little experiment....do you have any bees wax or even Bag Balm? We had a young apple tree that suffered a similar split once and we put it back to it's original place, coated the edges of the break with bag balm, applied cotton wrapping to bind it together and left it.

Today that apple tree is the biggest one, it produces more than the rest and you can still run your hand down the trunk after 18 years and feel a little oily residue.

 

[Wannabefree]

I would stake it after either cutting that piece off or doing as Bee suggested, which DOES work IME as well.

 

[hqueen13]

HUH! Interesting, Bee! I have some beeswax, it is refined, so I assume I need to melt it first? I guess I'd have to stake this back up because it won't stand on its own, even if I did wrap it in cotton. Just regular gauze type stuff?? I don't know how easily it will work, but it is worth a shot I guess! I would like to save this piece, it is taller than I am, and I'm 5'7, and it is really lovely! I guess if I do that I can fertilize the crap out of the tree, too.