Honey Mesquite

Honey Mesquite Care

Prosopis Glandulosa

What is the plant

Honey mesquite trees can add summer shade and winter drama to your landscape. With twisted trunks, formidable thorns and yellow spring flowers, honey mesquites are unique and interesting. These trees grow relatively quick to about 30 feet (9 m.) tall and 40 feet (12 m.) wide. The roots delve down even deeper – sometimes to 150 feet (46 m.) – which is what helps to make them so drought resistant. Ornamental features on honey mesquite include pale yellow spring flowers and unusual seed pods. The pods are fairly long and tubular, resembling wax beans. They ripen in late summer. Mesquite bark is rough, scaly and reddish brown. The tree is armed with long thorns, which makes them good candidates for a defensive hedge.

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Humidity

Dry

Lighting

Full Sun

Temperature

14°C - 40°C

Hardiness zone

7 - 12

Difficulty

Easy

Hibernation

Cold Period

How to Care for the Plant

Water
Honey mesquite care includes regulating the amount of irrigation the plant gets. Remember that this is a desert native. It is an opportunist in terms of water, taking whatever is available. Therefore, it is best to limit water to the plant. If you give it generous amounts of water, it will grow very fast and the wood will be weak.
Pruning
You’ll also need to do foundational pruning as part of honey mesquite care. Be sure to help the tree develop a strong scaffold while it is young.
Fertilizer
Established trees should be fertilized every 2-3 years. Feed in early spring when plants start growing.

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Sunlight
Requires an open, sunny position and a well-drained soil
Soil
Sandy, well-drained soil.
Temperature
It grows best in areas where annual daytime temperatures are within the range 18 - 28°c, but can tolerate 14 - 40°c]. When dormant, the plant is very cold-tolerant and can survive temperatures down to about -22°c, but young growth is much more tender and can be severely damaged at -1°c