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  • From: Elizabeth Hilborn <ehilborn@mebtel.net>
  • To: mailing list at ibiblio - Northamerican Allied Fruit Experimenters <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: [nafex] My poor young quince
  • Date: Tue, 17 May 2016 20:38:24 -0400

I have never tried growing Cydonia oblonga before as we have severe fire blight here. However, a site opened up with good ventilation and first AM sun. I love the fruit so I bought a tree. It arrived in our warm early spring, I was able to protect it from the late freezes. It was vigorous and put out at least 10 inches of new growth with healthy leaves.

Now, although it has escaped fire blight, it is suffering extensively from rust. The apical meristem is brown and necrotic, each leaf is at least somewhat deformed and every petiole is swelling with future fruiting bodies. One petiole has already started releasing spores.

I feel like I have staked a goat out in a tiger infested jungle.

So, does anyone have experience with this? Is this young tree destined to die a long, protracted death, or can it survive this severe rust infection? I would rather rip the quince out if it is a hopeless cause for survival. This IS a bad rust year, my apples are suffering too - not every year is so bad....


Betsy Hilborn
7a Central NC






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