I have been thinking of planting a few black locusts around my property. Would anyone be willing to send me a few seeds? I am happy to send you a few bucks via pay-pal or venmo or whatever for shipping.
I don’t have any or I would. Are you sure you want to plant them? Most people struggle to get rid of them. Invasive thorny little buggers. Not too bad when they’re full grown and the thorns are high up.
Don't know if I can help. I thought I had Black Locus, but may well be Honey Locus. Using this link as a reference I don't know. Maybe someone else on here can tell us what we have. Around the 7 minute mark. The seeds on the left were from green pods. The dark one on the right are from black pods. Going up the middle are Great Norther Beans for reference. Some of the pods. There isn't many black pods yet. Maybe someone can tell what species I have. If they are Black Locus you are more than welcome to all you want.
I was going to try to plant some my self. There’s a good sized black locust grove across the road from me. They are all big mature trees so seed pods are high in the tree. So I was waiting on them to start falling, well so was the turkeys. They tore the ground up looking for them seeds. I didn’t find any. I ended up transplanting a couple this past spring. I’ll say this, they are easy to grow. I planted on a clay knob and they have doubled in size.
Good point... how bad are these thorns? I had a hawthorn thorn stuck in the arch of my foot for a year... It was terrible. It took an MRI, several doctors and a surgery to finally get it out. Friends don't let friends plant hawthorne trees.
On this note, if anyone is looking for those thuja giant trees, mine are starting to seed and I am going to have buckets full of them. They are used as wind-breaks and privacy fences and such.
Sweet. That’ll make you walk a little funny. I’m far from an authority on BL. All my scrounges have been wood that’s been left by tree services so far. One did have a small 5-6 foot sapling there I wasn’t paying much attention to but every time I walked by I said ow! Finally looked at this thing and it was a thorny little bugger. Not terrible for one but they spread if left unchecked. Sort of like having a patch of pricker bushes in your yard. People don’t like them for that reason I guess. As young trees whatever space they occupy becomes unusable. I can imagine even full grown if the younger branches fall they can be an annoyance on bare feet. Just guessing here tho. I’d also guess the thorns are 3/8” to 1/2” long much like your picture. I thought of planting some myself. Had some small trees growing right out of the bark of a log. Very hardy growers I figured a little surgery with a chainsaw and I could cut them out. Then I remembered how much fun we had getting rid of the bamboo patch and the tree of Heaven that’s still spreading. No more invasives, especially thorny ones.
Isn't Black Locust an invasive species in some states? Therefore would it be illegal to plant in those states?
Maybe. I know they strongly discourage anyone planting bamboo in Ct. It may be considered illegal, not sure. I know they were considering making it illegal to plant. That was the straw that nudged us to get rid of it. Not that I care much what the law says but it was a nuisance anyway I recall a poster on this forum that wanted his property considered forest land for tax purposes. The forester mandated that he eradicate all the black locust on the property. Cut down and poison the stumps.
