I live in z5, and have a beautiful mimosa chocolate silk tree in a pot on my deck. I bought bare root this past spring, and it's now around 4ft tall, and doing great. No flowers yet but who cares. Anyway, I want to know if I can bring it indoors to overwinter it, or should I try to make it go dormant in my cool basement? Anyone out there know anything about this?
Thank you. Have you done this with one? I see you live in a much much warmer zone than I do. I'm zone 5, and it's definatly not tropical here. I could bring it in and put it under one of my T5 light fixtures, or, I could try it in front of my living room window. It's a picture window that faces east. Not a lot of light, but it has sufficed for a large jade and a chinese evergreen....Which do you suggest I do?
What zone for Chocolate Mimosa (silk) tree? I live in zone 5, and have a 3ft. Chocolate silk tree doing great potted on my deck. I thought I'd read somewhere that it can't take the cold. In Vermont the winters are fairly harsh and I thought I'd have to find a way to overwinter it inside. But, on older posts here, (that I can't reply to) I'm reading people from Canada have them growing in the ground. ?? Isn't it just about as cold in Canada as here? Can I leave this little tree outside??
Re: What zone for Chocolate Mimosa (silk) tree? It's probably too cold where you are unless like the Canadian Carolinian zone you have a large warm body of water to temper Winter lows. http://www.carolinian.org/FactSheets_CCUniqueness.htm If you have an unheated basement or garage you might over winter it there.
I'm from Zone 2b/3a originally; it's what I used to do with my mimosa tree. I'd go with the T5 - the chill from the window will make it grumpy, and the last thing you want is a grumpy mimosa.