Edible Acres on managing black locust

This is a new/great video on managing Black locust.  

I always enjoy Edible Acres vids.

Hi, Great video, many thanks for sharing.
I'd like to ask at what stage from planting time can you start cutting it back for mulch (chop and drop style)?

Also, it is said that it needs specific rhizobia strains of bacteria in order to fix Nitrogen so, if one is not sure whether these bacteria are available in the soil where the tree is intended to be planted, yo can go to existing robinias stands and collect the soil underneath, because this is supposed to include the right NF bacteria. The question I have here is: how do I know that those already existing trees will have the right bacteria? Because they may have also grown without those bacteria in the first place?
Or does this mean that the tree can only grow if those bacteria ARE in the soil otherwise they just die without ever becoming adult trees?
Cheers

Judging on how fast mine are growing and how prolifically they are blooming, I'd say they brought the right stuff with them!

I wish he had discussed the thorns. My black locusts are very young, but not sure how well i can use them for chop and drop or wood chips with the terrible thorns they have. Any have any experience with this?

The thorns on mine are pretty small, and I haven't had any issues with them being bothersome, unlike wild blackberries that seems to rip me open if I even get close to them.

The thorns on my black locust also don't grab like blackberries do. I was even kind of testing this the other day, and I could run my hand over it gently without being poked. I was also thinking how they could make good chop and drop and maybe laid down around plants to keep critters away.

I made a video of mine the other day, not as good as Sean's, but might show a younger black locust and some additional ideas on using it. I'm still editing it, I'll try to remember to post it here once it's done.

Steve I'm with you. They seem kind of garden variety for thorns. I mean comapered to multiflora, autumn olive, honeylocust, osage orange...practically thornless.

I'm using them in areas I want to establish silvopasture. I am also using thornless honeylocust, coffee tree, and mimosa as legume trees. Some areas one will grow, others all will grow, but probably everywhere will have a legume overstory. They seem pretty easy to control to me compared with the other stuff.

Tj Jefferson wrote:I'm using them in areas I want to establish silvopasture. I am also using thornless honeylocust, coffee tree, and mimosa as legume trees. Some areas one will grow, others all will grow, but probably everywhere will have a legume overstory. They seem pretty easy to control to me compared with the other stuff.

I bet those trees would work really well for that!