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Free quince -- SE Portland
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Larry_G
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September 28, 2015 - 1:43 pm

Anyone interested in quince fruit send an email to plants at ledress dot com in order to set up a time. This is in SE Portland, Woodstock neighborhood. One pound or one hundred pounds is available. Crop is early, will only last into mid-October. Variety 'Pineapple'.

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John S
PDX OR
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September 30, 2015 - 5:11 pm

Hi Larry,

How does your pineapple quince do in terms of disease and pest pressure?
Thanks,
John S

PDX OR

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Larry_G
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September 30, 2015 - 9:11 pm

From 10 or 20 feet away, you would never know anything was amiss.

But up close, there is minor leaf spotting and some whitish areas, perhaps mildew.

The trunk and older branches are rampant with moss and lichen, apparently not a problem.

The fruit is subject to brown rot, this is completely random. Some fruit rots before

becoming ripe and some fruit can store for several weeks post-ripe with no rot.

10-15% of crop lost this way. Usually significant amount of flesh dark mottling/specks,

but have seen none this year. Cracked fruit not uncommon, may or may not rot.

Infrequent scabs on surface do not affect flesh.

Pests: A few bird pecks, infrequent human removal of a fruit, found up the street

with one bite taken (good nickname for quince would be fool's apple or fool's pear).

Any year now squirrels will figure this tree out and then I will have a real problem.

I would say on average, 2/3 of the crop is perfectly usable. The only attention I give the

tree is summer water, autumn harvest, and winter pruning.

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Larry_G
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October 1, 2015 - 4:28 pm

Forgot to include the walnut husk fly as a pest; these are not numerous but up to half the quince will have a single bore hole into the center with varying amounts of frass in the seed cavity. By harvest, the worm is long gone. Largely cosmetic damage as less than 1% of a fruit is affected.

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John S
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October 11, 2015 - 7:21 pm

That's probably somewhat better than I get with Crimea.  Crimea is delicious raw, but it does have the issue of disease. NOt pests so much. I usually think of Pineapple as being one of the more disease free varieties, but not good raw.

John S
PDX OR

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Larry_G
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October 19, 2015 - 9:19 pm

Final tally from this tree was 341 pounds, not counting ~40 pounds of culls.

Most was distributed free via craigsList. One HOS forum reader also responded.

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jafar
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October 20, 2015 - 12:17 pm

Larry, thanks for the generosity with the quince.  I'm sure you made a lot of people happy.  I was tempted to ask for some, but just have too many things going on to be sure I'd have time to put them to good use.

My daughter did really enjoy the feijoa.  Last year she was luke warm about them, but this time she ate 5 or 6 in one sitting after having pizza.

I think they were sweeter than usual, maybe due to the weather.  They had a larger proportion of the sweet gelatinous translucent middle compared to the gritty sour next layer.

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Larry_G
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October 20, 2015 - 8:33 pm

Yes, the smaller feijoa fruits that dominate this year's crop are more gelatinous. The larger fruits remain typical in composition. Glad your daughter is warming up to them. I keep bumping into former New Zealanders or visitors who go bug-eyed when given fruits from my bush--today it was a gal at the 47th Avenue Farm where I took some 1-pound bags for distribution. She would eat from roadside bushes in NZ.

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I thought of you and quince but assumed you might have too many things going on to process them!

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John S
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November 5, 2015 - 10:38 pm

My kids ( 12 and 13) really like pineapple guava/feijoa.  At first, the flavor was a bit too complex for them.  

I find that it fruits every single year.  This year, it's fruiting earlier, like all the other fruit.

John S
PDX OR

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