Look great. They are pretty drought tolerant w/a wide-spreading root system. Mine's 60 ft + in just 20 yrs, tower-like at first, now spreading branches impolitely into nearby trees.

That’s great. Yours is gigantic. They are turning out to be great trees and semi unusual for here

also, I poisoned them fairly badly with trimec last year. They are SUPER sensitive. Happy to see them showing no ill effects this year

Skyline is easily the best honeylocust cultivar I've had in my fields. The only real trouble I've had with them is mostly in the transplanting. Skinny trunks with very large root systems underneath. They can be quite slow to reestablish after planting, too. Only prune them when you have dry stretches of weather as they can be prone to getting cankers in the wounds.

That's a nice-looking tree you posted.

Nice trees LC!

I have a honey locust I started from seed collected in northern Illinois.

I wish the branches on mine would grow more upright instead of horizontal.

I laid off watering because they grew so fast but now, we're getting rain so they're growing ridiculously fast again anyways.

Gleditsia triacanthos was chosen as one of the trees they planted back in the dust bowl days, as part of a gigantic windbreak, stretching from N. Dakota to Texas.

They're drought and somewhat salt tolerant. Who'd have thought? ;-)

Bill -

If you started your honeylocust from seed, does that mean you could have thorns on it? Or was the parent tree in Illinois thornless? I've seen some pretty crazy thorns on the occasional Skyline from time to time. If they are going to show up, it's usually at the root collar, but sometimes a random branch will have some wicked, large ones.

' If you started your honeylocust from seed, does that mean you could have thorns on it? '

I don't know, do thorns become more likely as the tree ages?

At this time there aren't any thorns, just a few wannabes bump randomly on a few branches.

I brought the seeds home in 2018; they were from a cemetery we visited. Large trees, I assumed were bought and planted by someone, maybe the city, years ago. I didn't know enough at the time to look for thorns, I just saw the twisted long beans under the trees and took some.

The trunk is >3" caliper today, and I suppose about 16 ft. tall. Been trimmed down some to control the lean and the floppy top. Cabled for the second season, trying to keep it upright.

Trunk base:

Bill, if you don't see any major thorns yet, prb'ly none will show up. A seed-grown one I gave to my brother that's about yours' size now does have several viscous blood-red thorns on its branches (they eventually turn gray).

Thanks, beng.

Good to know.

Mine has turned a nice 'butter yellow' a couple of times.

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