Grafted Honey Locust

All grafted honey locust trees ship in 14” x 4” tree pots.

• Monroe – introduced by Alex Tanke and myself 2022. Tested at 37% sugar by weight, comparable to the best TVA selections. Seed source from Monroe County Arkansas and the ortet tree is entirely thornless. Performs well is zone 5b/6a! Good for more northern plantings.

• Big Fatty – selection from the remains of John Hershey's farm. Believed to be a seedling from his breeding but it is possible that it's actually Calhoun. Pods test at 38-41% sugar by weight. Tree is annually bearing, although production each year is lower to compensate. Zone 6 and above.

• Calhoun – introduced through John Hershey's work at the TVA. Pods 38% sugar by weight. Tree bears most years. Zone 6 and above.

• Chiaha – my newest 2023 selection from Tennessee. Named for the Native village of the Koasati and later Cherokee which was found in the area of the tree. Testing results for sugar weight were inconclusive and need to be redone, but the pods were among the fleshiest I've seen. Ortet tree is moderately thorny but grafts will be thornless.

• Cooper – fleshy podded selection from Taylor Malone in Tennessee. Ortet tree is thorny – and sadly, now dead – but grafts are all thornless.

• Millwood – a TVA selection which has been extensively field tested in Virginia for silvopasture as a cattle feed. 31% sugar by weight and 13% protein.

• Ashworth – a TVA selection with very sweet pods said to taste like melon.

• Colley – selection by myself and Lucky Pittman from Hopkinsville KY. Ortet tree is entirely thornless and remains of pods on ground looked promising. Remains to be tested.

• Trotter Experimental Series – untested selections from Tennessee which I made in the field based upon pod fleshiness (2023). Ortet trees labeled as thornless or thorny for breeding purposes, but all grafts will grow thornless. Selections include: Thorny #2, Thorny #3, Thorny #4, Thornless #2