[Ag-eq] Honey locusts

[Tracy Carcione]

Jewel, are you sure the difficulty in obtaining one isn't because they are
invasive, so they're tightly controlled?  
Though that doesn't always happen.  I was looking at currants to replace a
shrub that died, and I was all excited about it, but my research turned up
that they can carry a disease that affects other species, especially in New
Jersey, so they're not recommended.  Oh well.

If I had lots of space, I'd get a nut tree, like shagbark hickory, which
sounds real interesting.  Or maybe a couple pawpaw, which is a native fruit
tree.  Other people dream of big cars and yachts; I dream of nut trees.
Tracy


-----Original Message-----
From: Ag-eq [mailto:ag-eq-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Jewel via Ag-eq
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2018 2:03 AM
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Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Honey locusts

Tracy!  I had been thinking  along those lines too, but, though that measure
of separation might be 
ideal for the trees:  if I stick around long enough to see them in their
full maturity, they will 
just have to accept that their branches are going to get entangled.

The two replies that I have had from goatsplus, both were very negative;
one correspondent said 
that, in Texas, the thorned variety: I am getting  the thornless:  are
regarded as trash trees as 
the dropped thorns can cripple a car, so if they can do that, what damage
would they inflict on an 
unprotected human?  considerable would be my guess, so they are grubbed out
wherever they are found, 
and the other said that they grow like weeds and are very invasive.
I hope that she is correct on them growing "like weeds" because weeds grow
very well on 
TheBlanchRanch, and as to their tendency to invade:  well, in New Zealand
they don't, for if they 
did, they would be easy to obtain, which they are not!

         Jewel

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Subject: Re: [Ag-eq] Honey locusts

Hi Jewel.
I think what you need to know is the spread.  Then you'd know how far apart
to put them.  So, if the spread is 22 meters, which it might or not be, and
you put them 22 meters apart, I'd think, when they're full-grown, they'd
just be touching each other at the ends of their branches.  In theory.
You're so lucky.  I'd love to have some big trees, but I don't have enough
space.
Tracy


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Sent: Saturday, August 25, 2018 3:06 AM
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Cc: Jewel
Subject: [Ag-eq] Honey locusts

This is a variety of tree that I have been anxious to grow for many years,
but until a week ago, I
hadn't been able to find a nursery that had them. but now I have and am
getting 4 seedlings.
However, unless I am fortunate enough to set up a new record for longevity,
it is unlikely, though
not impossible, that I will see them through to their maturity.
I have very bad luck at persuading vegetables to frow for me, but, to date,
the majority of trees
that I have planted have done very well.
I see, from the web, that honey locusts grow to a height of 20m: 66 feet or
thereabouts.  I don't
want to plant them, unnecessarily, far apart nor do I wish to overcrowd
them, so if any of you have
had H L, what did you find was the optimum separation?

           Jewel






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