I got some Crimea, Aromatnaya, and Van Deman and maybe a Cook’s Jumbo shipped to me.
Will sample them as they ripen (shipped mostly green, the van demans looks ripe, and I sampled an Aromatnaya yesterday).
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Aromatnaya is marketed as a fresh eating quince, but I don’t consider the flavor to be good enough to eat. Krymskaya/Crimea/ Kuganskaya are so much better IMHO, that I won’t grow it.
John S
PDX OR
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Bulgaria hybrid v-7, harvested 10/6. Quite small, but it’s the first and only fruit on this young tree. Aromatic and lightly fuzzy. The fruits on bobev’s triumph are much larger; I’m going to pick those tomorrow before our freeze.
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90+ temperatures and high humidity in early Spring caused a fire blight outbreak in my yard when the ground was still waterlogged from snow melt. I lost all of my quince fruit and a couple of branches.
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Is this a hybrid, like with pear? Or is it just the name?
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@KS_razerback Pure quince! It’s one that came out of a bunch of crosses in an attempt to find disease resistance. I think it’s Triumph x Asenitza but don’t quote me…
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I guess I need to ask you for some quince seed next year in trade. It is somewhat appealing with your more disease resistant varieties you’ve got to trial a row here of the seeds for any further standouts.
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How are they? I assume not fresh eating? I grafted one two years ago, so I’m hoping for some fruit this coming year. Got some flowers this Spring, but no fruit set.
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I’m happy to send although it’s only year 3 and it was not a bad disease year despite all the rain so they really haven’t been put to the test. I have a bunch of varieties in ground so surely one will end up mostly no spray…I can hope.
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I don’t think they are fresh eating. They’re big enough to make a couple small jars of jam so I’ll have to sneak a taste and report back.
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Hi,
I got Crimea and Kaunching in the ground this spring. They’ve added about 18” of growth and are very happy.
I’ll be doing some breeding work in the ensuing years. Any advice from any of you currently working on Quince breeding projects?
Also, given that online descriptions are sorta shyte, what would you say are the 5 most important varieties of quince in terms of arriving at the intersection between flavor, disease resistance, and production?
Any outliers in the current offerings that might be worth pushing even further out to see if they can become something novel?
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Every year I get damaged fruit from codling moth. I have tunnels in the fruit and sometimes black around the core. I spray at petal fall with Avaunt the same as any of my other orchard fruits, and they come out clean. But quince every year is the same problem. Any tips how to get clean fruit?
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Well I figure the more varieties you try the more likely one will work.
Also wonder about ways to rapidly thin the seedlings for fireblight resistance, like taking a bunch of freshly fireblight killed shoots, blend them with water in a blender, then spray the strained innoculent onto the seedlings after ruffing them up a little with a stick or something to provide a point of entry.
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For whatever is worth Google’s AI seems really sure it’s a national security issue. 
I think pushing them hard with Nitrogen in the Spring when FB infections tend to happen might be the best approach. You really have no idea of knowing what is actually in an infected slurry.
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Tops for flavor: Crimea/Krimskaya, Kuganskaya, Kaunching. I wouldn’t grow any other varieties because I don’t like their flavor.
Compost tea really helps with disease pressure.
I notice a really dense tangle of branches at the top of my tree I hadn’t noticed before. Was I creating a wonderful place for disease?
John S
PDX OR
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Compost tea and manure tea
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