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Andy Wilson has been working with honey locust for decades.

Doug Woodard
St. Catharines, Ontario, Canada


On Thu, 6 Nov 2014 11:43:46 -0500 (EST), "PATTY " 
<jrplelie@centurylink.net> wrote:
> Devin,
>
> Don't know if you have visited the Honey Locust Agroforestry website
> but it does have some good info.  I have spoken to Andy Wilson in the
> past and he sounds pretty knowledgeable but the website and honey
> locusts may be a passing interest for him.  However the info they 
> have
> online is actually pretty good.  This link may help answer your
> question about honey locust pollination.
>
>
> http://faculty.virginia.edu/honeylocust-agroforestry/agroforestry/HoneylocustAgroforestry.htm
>
> Jim Elie
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Devin Smith via nafex" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
> To: nafex@lists.ibiblio.org
> Sent: Thursday, November 6, 2014 5:38:45 AM
> Subject: [nafex] Honey Locust
>
> I just had my first real taste of honey locust pod goop and am
> absolutely hooked. I'd never really thought much of the assertion 
> that
> the pods were "edible", knowing only that it was a lot of work to eat
> them and that the stuff inside was kind of sweet. No one ever told me
> it tasted like tropical taffy! I've since tried lots of different 
> ways
> of getting out the pulp, no of them totally satisfactory. Anyone know
> the best way to get the goop out? Its hard to believe so little
> breeding work has been done to improve these. It would be great if
> there was a seedless pod variety that produced lots of goop. Then it
> would perhaps be possible to run the pods through a set of rollers to
> extract the goop and perhaps obtain it in quantity. I understand they
> are dioecious. Does anyone know if seedless pods with goop are
> possible from pistillate trees, or would some kind of sterile
> polyploid perhaps be required? I see there is an interest group for
> honey locust.
>  Consider me interested.