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["Kieran and/or Donna" <holycow@frontiernet.net>]

We have had a couple of thornless honeylocusts come up in our garden, 
presumably from locust pods from Hector's place (or seeds in dirt from 
there), as there are no wild honey locusts in our immediate area (thank 
goodness!).  We left them alone for some years but I finally insisted that 
the larger one be cut down.  It was about 3-4" diameter, and has now made 
suckers as far as 8 ft away.  I dug and moved a couple of them.  I have been 
relieved to find that though both trees were female, the pods have been 
seedless, probably due to lack of pollination.  The trees are quite nice, 
and having seen thornless honey locusts growing in a local nursery makes me 
think it's possible to have them without them taking over.  But if you 
wanted the pods for food, I think they would have to have been pollinated, 
and that means inevitably, seedlings.  Donna