One locust tree to propagate.

I have one locust tree that volunteered in my front yard.
I cut it down below ground level and it came back with a vengeance.
It's at least an inch across and 12 feet tall, with many vertical watersprouts.
It's not growing in a good spot for us, so it's gonna get beheaded again.

I expect to get about 8' of trunk and 16 or more finger thick branches.
Would better to put them in a  container full of potting soil and nurse them for a season or should I just pound/stick them in the ground?

William Bronson wrote: I have one locust tree that volunteered in my front yard.
I cut it down below ground level and it came back with a vengeance.
It's at least an inch across and 12 feet tall, with many vertical watersprouts.
It's not growing in a good spot for us, so it's gonna get beheaded again.

I expect to get about 8' of trunk and 16 or more finger thick branches.
Would better to put them in a  container full of potting soil and nurse them for a season or should I just pound/stick them in the ground?

I didn't know locust trees could be propagated this way.  I've only grown mine from seed.  Interested in seeing how this works out.

Well your surprise raised my doubts and now I'm pretty certain they are not usually propagated from cuttings!
From root fragments and from seed  yes, but I've found few references to them growing from cuttings.

I'm gonna try it anyway.
Actually I think I'll cut the trunk down to 6", try to dig out some roots and place a bottomless container over the stump.

I'll fill the container with compost, and  it grows back it will hopefully put roots into the compost.
I'm also hopeful it will split into multiple leaders.
If I get this, it will be like getting multiple trees.

The cuttings will get some rooting hormones and go into one of the sub-irrgated barrels.

The trunk will get rooting hormones and then it will get stuck into the ground.
If it fails , I'll pull it out and make a tool handle out of it.

William Bronson wrote: Well your surprise raised my doubts and now I'm pretty certain they are not usually propagated from cuttings!
From root fragments and from seed  yes, but I've found few references to them growing from cuttings.

I'm gonna try it anyway.
Actually I think I'll cut the trunk down to 6", try to dig out some roots and place a bottomless container over the stump.

I'll fill the container with compost, and  it grows back it will hopefully put roots into the compost.
I'm also hopeful it will split into multiple leaders.
If I get this, it will be like getting multiple trees.

The cuttings will get some rooting hormones and go into one of the sub-irrgated barrels.

The trunk will get rooting hormones and then it will get stuck into the ground.
If it fails , I'll pull it out and make a tool handle out of it.

You could always try air pruning a couple stems too.  I'm not sure if that works, but it's pretty simple to try it and find out.

I'm afraid that I would leave an air layered branch go for too long, and forget about until the tree got out of hand.
I went to look at it again today,  it's tall but not a bushy as I remembered.

We find that when we cut down a black locust, it stimulates growth of lots of new trees sprouting up in a 15' or so radius. There was one tree in a bad spot that we cut down three years ago, and we've been pulling up new growth in that 30' area every year since.

I've also never grown them from cuttings, just seed.