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[Richard Moyer <ramoyer@gmail.com>]

Jay,
Significant others who love fruiting plants are a blessing!
Hidden Springs Nursery (Cookeville, TN; online catalog
@catalogs.google.com) has sold cultivars of Chaenomeles quince.  I
have 'Toyo Nishiki' from them, very nice because of multiple flowers
ranging from dark pink to white.  Reliable, large fruit for us in East
TN.   They also have offered 'Spitfire', a dark red.

My experience with Chaenomeles in East TN/SW VA:  Single plants around
town are hit and miss for fruit production.  Highest yields seem to be
from multiple plantings.  So I suspect pollination from separate
plants helps.

Found the best plants in my area by cruising older neighborhoods
during bloom, then returning in fall.  (Best to have someone else
drive, or at least watch the road and yell as needed).  I dug rooted
suckers (with permission) from three separate sites around town, and
planted them together in a clump.  Heavy fruit production from these
three year after year now.

So before your plants fruit, you may be able to find some.  Very few
people use the fruit any more; most were glad to have someone pick
them up.

Grace and peace,
Richard Moyer
Castlewood, SW VA
Collected apple and pear scionwood today.



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> Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 14:24:21 -0600
> From: Jay Cutts <orders@cuttsreviews.com>
> Subject: [NAFEX] flowering quince with fruit
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> My girlfriend would like a flowering quince for the ornamental flowers
> and I would like to get some fruit.   She claims she had one once that
> fruited.   Anyone have advice on combining ornamental flowers with fruit
> production in a quince??
>