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I'll now what color it is in a couple days.

Crepe Myrtles have the tendency to become multi- trunk trees. If you desire it to be a single trunk tree you need to prune the new growth off as it appears.

Good Luck

If you can catch the suckers while they are still fairly small, it is better to grasp them as low as you can, and twist/pull them off. If the sucker is already too large for that, use pruners, but be sure to remove as much of the sucker as you can--even if you need to go below the soil line a few inches. These methods help to keep the number of suckers that form in check. With crepe myrtles, every little bit helps with some of these guys, because they can be determined little suckers.

This post was edited by Gyr_Falcon on Wed, Jul 2, 14 at 0:28