I had some cuttings from my outdoor hardy crape myrtle. During this past
spring, I had planted some of them in small 12" pots to see if they would
survive. They did and in fact 2 of them even bloomed slightly. Being in NYC,
with oncoming Fall and winter, I dragged them indoors after they had shown
their Fall leafs color and dropped all leaves. A couple of them went into a
cool unheated basement with so far temperatures have not gone below 59 degrees.
The other 2 are in another unheated room, but the temp there has not gone below
68 degrees. This was all done in mid October or early november..don't recall
exactly. I was told while they are in a dormant stage to water sparingly, like
once a month or a couple of weeks. I never watered them enough to cover the
depth of the pots. Now, to my suprise today, I happened to notice that the
branches of the 68 degrees are starting to sport leaves, not so with the
basement one. I don't know what to do now. Should I start watering it as I did
when they were outside or just stop watering them and hope it drops its new
leaves and go dormant again? If I do start watering them again should I also
fertilize them because they are in pots? Hopefully someone here who has
knowledge of these shrubs would assist me? BTW, the sticker just says "Hardy
crape myrtle"...no other title. I do have the parent shrub now almost 15 years.