I purchased this from the Gardenologist in Gordon for $40 in April 2019. It was grown as a 6 foot standard but not sold. They warned me that the root stock was something vigorous, and would regrow with thorns. For me, the selling point is the big thick trunk, which is unusual in my plants.
Yes, that’s a tall tree.
The base:
The top:
I let it grow till October 2019, and then – chop chop.
By this stage we had enough to identify this as a Black Locust.