Honey Locust

[b116757]

Guys

Does anyone have any experience with the thornless verities of honey locust. I have the thorny ones i wage war on chemically but if I could top work some over to a heavy bean producing thornless I might consider this as an option in some places around the farm.

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[Bill]

When I bought my farm the previous owners had planted some. Not knowing what they were I mowed those things down Every year. Most died but I have few left that turned into shrub like bushes. Lots of stems, not tall. But no thorns.

So far no pods. But I wasn’t kind to them.

 

[Smith34]

Thorns are a gender thing with them….go figure, the females have the thorns AND the pods! ….sometimes…things don’t change between species we deal with!

 

[Kdog]

Actually, I have some thornless that produce pods every year. I have grown a lot from seed, but everyone of them have thorns and I killed them all. The only way I know how to get thornless that produce pods is to graft or top dress them from a known thronless variety.

 

[SwampCat]

I have plenty of regular thorny variety. Never seen a deer eat the pods. They just lay on the ground and eventually rot away. I do think the cotton rats and birds eat some seed

 

[b116757]

I’ve waged absolute war killing Locust trees on my place. I do wish I’d of ordered some scion of heavy pod production trees and top worked a couple natives over to them just to try.

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[Mozark]

I’ve waged absolute war killing Locust trees on my place. I do wish I’d of ordered some scion of heavy pod production trees and top worked a couple natives over to them just to try.

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Something I've been wanting to play around with also. The pods are well used here. I believe this is a picture of a tree in the Hershey collection in Philly.