QUINCE - Cydonia oblonga
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​​€15 per tree
A selection of cultivars that are high yielding with excellent taste  and virtually resistant to disease and pests.
Our plants are 2nd year grafted bare roots with an approximate height of 100 - 120cm (depending on cultivar)  ​
 Cydonia oblonga - "Asenica"
  • Description: Fruits: large, conical, lemon yellow, covered with a light fuzz, moderately acidic, tender, juicy, aromatic. suitable for fresh consumption. 200-500g. 
  • Fruiting Period: 5-15 October
  • Storage: Keeps very well
  • Pollination: Self Fertile but better production can be expected when planted with Hemus or Portugal.
  • Disease Resistance: Many of the insect pests – codling moth or winter moth caterpillars for instance – which feed on apples or pears will also feed from quinces, but are seldom significant. Quince leaf blight is usually the only disease that can be troublesome
  • Root stock: ВА 29
Cydonia oblonga - "Portugal"
  • Description: One of the best flavoured fruit, pear-shaped, 13-18cm (5-7in) long, deep yellow covered with grey down. The tree is more vigorous than other cultivars, but less hardy. Portugal crops abundantly and regularly. Fruits do not easily fall off the tree. Cannot tolerate severe winter weather and suffers chlorosis on calcareous soils.
  • Fruiting Period: October  
  • Storage: The fruits keep well until the end of December and can be used for the preparation of sauces, jams, jellies etc.
  • Pollination: Self Fertile but better production can be expected when planted with Hemus, Portugal and Asenica
  • Disease Resistance: Many of the insect pests – codling moth or winter moth caterpillars for instance – which feed on apples or pears will also feed from quinces, but are seldom significant. Quince leaf blight is usually the only disease that can be troublesome
  • Root stock: ВА 29 
Cydonia oblonga - "Triumph"
  • Description: A vigorous tree with a rounded crown that fruits regularly and abundantly. The fruits average 420g are pear shaped with a thin smooth skin greenish yellow, slightly fuzzy. The flesh is white moderately juicy, very sour, with a pleasant aroma. 
  • Fruiting Period: October 10 to 20 
  • Storage: The fruits keep well until the end of December and can be used for the preparation of sauces, jams, jellies etc.
  • Pollination: Self Fertile but better production can be expected when planted with Portugal  
  • Disease Resistance: Many of the insect pests – codling moth or winter moth caterpillars for instance – which feed on apples or pears will also feed from quinces, but are seldom significant. Quince leaf blight is usually the only disease that can be troublesome 
  • Root stock: ВА 29 
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Cydonia oblonga ​- "Hemus"
  • Description: A Bulgarian cultivar developed in the Plovdiv fruit institute.The fruit is large pear-shaped to apple-shaped, green-yellow to light-lemon-yellow after cropping, which starts in the beginning of October. The flesh is white-creamy, tender, average juicy, sweet-sour with very good quality. Compared to other cultivars of quince it shows better adaptability to a wide range of climate and soil.
  • Fruiting Period: 1-10 October
  • Storage: The fruits keep well until the end of December and can be used for the preparation of sauces, jams, jellies etc.
  • Pollination: Self Fertile but better production can be expected when planted with Asenica, Hemus, Portugal
  • Disease Resistance: Many of the insect pests – codling moth or winter moth caterpillars for instance – which feed on apples or pears will also feed from quinces, but are seldom significant. Quince leaf blight is usually the only disease that can be troublesome
  • Root stock: ВА 29
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