I do and will send soon. I do have plenty of pears but none within 100’.
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There’s also a chance that this variety might be more compatible with pear grafts than the average quince, so if it strikes well from cuttings it could be interesting to experiment with it as a rootstock.
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I have plenty of open flower pics, somewhere. Just havent found them yet.
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That is a good thought. The leaf form is somewhat different than the other quince I have, though I far from an expert. I also wonder if it will be a better rootstock than scion. Alternatively, it may just be following the pattern of other fruits that tend to develop a larger tree. It would make a nice landscape tree as a scion, too.
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Does anyone grow Ekmek from Raintree Nursery? I bought one about 5 years ago, and the fruit don’t particularly look like photos of this variety. Mine are rounder and rougher. I’ll try to take a pic later today. My Limon that I bought from them at the same time turned out to be a pear. so I’m wondering if this was another nursery mixup as well.
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Raintree got kind of “iffy” around that time after selling out to different people.
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What’s going on here? Quince bud couldn’t quite decide if it was going to be leafs or a flower?
This tree was planted this spring and hit hard with rust then drought. New flush of growth after some rain and cool weather.
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Did the tip get damaged? Sometimes pruning/damage triggers weird flowering times.
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Aromatnya Quince is showing some green vegetative growth. September 20th in Minneapolis, kind of late in the season. Up to this point I’ve seen some slow, woody growth on branches. The slow growth contrasts the vigorous vegetative growth of my Pineapple Quince that made it so susceptible to fire blight.
The red duct tape is where I winter pruned last year. And I mean winter pruned. I pruned mid January then sealed with toilet ring wax then grafting tape then colored duct tape. The next week it hit -22 F. As you can see it survived.
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@ShiverMinneapolisZ4b , thanks for the report. I grafted Aromatnya this spring and this makes me more hopeful it will make it in Idaho.
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Such a beautiful quince! Wow!
I was surprised at my Lisle quinces’ red blush, and that’s nothing compared to yours!
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Found these at a park. Is the oblong one a pseudocydonia? The small one I thought might be a pear or it might be a quince or chaenomeles (but leaves are too big?). It was on the ground and rock hard as well
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I’ve got one that I really wanted, Krymskaya, even though wanted another Russian variety, epesially aromatnaya or an ananasovaya, but the only other variety available at Mehrabyan was Lisle, a German variety, I think.
I have a question for anyone who knows: I don’t think there’s any feral or other quince anywhere close, so if I plant the seeds from these they will all be Krymsk x Lisle and should make great fruiting trees, right? It’s not like planting apples and all the pollen from wild apples, wood apples, Siberian crabapples, and even worse Toringo crabapples that can pollinate the good varieties and ruin the good fruiting genetics.
So all my seedlings should fruit well, right?
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I’m pretty sure it’s a Pyrus Ussuriensis (Siberian pear) but probably crossed with European pear, or possibly Asians pears, alternatively, it could be a European pear crossed with Callery pear, but much more European than Callery, but the first is more likely in my opinion.
How’s it taste?
There second is a mystery!
But looking in PictureThis, it looks exactly like Chinese Quince.
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Pear apparently is dwarfed by quince because the enzymes near the graft union restrict the cambium, and dwarfing the top of the tree is good for fruiting, dwarfing the roots kills it. So, this is theoretical, and I have a lot of failed experiments (most already published here) but I think you could do it with an interstem, so you would probably need either a Medlar or hawthorn interstem, but I’m not 100% sure those are compatible with Callery, so unless you find the perfect interstem, you might need European pear and then Medlar/Callery and then quince… I think Medlar can and I hope hawthorn can go straight on Callery.
Oh and the enzymes from quince apparently do not travel far, but Callery and Asian pears are not compatible with quince, but a good sized interstem should work.
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I didn’t try it, it was as hard as the “quince” which is why I thought this can’t be a pear despite the leaves looking familiar.
I like your idea. I’ll have to see if the park keeps any records of what is planted there, the actual tree is several trunks coming out of the ground so I wonder if it was a rootstock for something else
Edit: went back and tried one… It is definitely a pear, it is really firm and crunchy. Texture like an Asian pear. Not the best I’ve had but cool find!
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Right now I have a tree that is Euro pear that was grafted over with medlar and this year I grafted quince to one of the medlar branches. All that to say you’re medlar interstem idea “should” be viable. Medlar does fine on euro pear, but quince on medlar long term, who knows. Think I need to trade for more quince scion this winter.
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I’d be happy to send Lisle and Krymskaya in exchange for any Medlars that you can send. I really want to get Medlars going around here.
I also have Asian pears, Clara Frijs, and Rottkottig Frau Oster Gotland.
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Sounds good. Remind me over the winter.
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