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| I don't know where I got this idea, and maybe I'm completely wrong, but I never planted any quinces because I thought they'd just be too susceptible to fireblight. I think what I may have heard (right or wrong) had to do with quince as a rootstock for pear, but I assume if there are problems as a rootstock, they'd be at least as bad as a whole tree. However, recently a man just across the mountains in eastern Tennessee mentioned that he has terrible trouble with fireblight on his pears but that he has a reliable no-spray quince tree. Is there really hope for no-spray quinces in the Southeast? How bad is fireblight on quince? Are some varieties significantly more and less disease resistant than others? What rootstock options are there with quince, and which should I prefer? |
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- Posted by scottfsmith 6B-7A-MD (My Page) on Sat, Dec 20, 14 at 14:39
| For me fireblight was horrible. Not only was it bad, it was giving the apples nearby huge problems -- when I removed the quince I saw the fireblight there go to zero. I also had bad problems with quince rust which I found a lot worse than cedar apple rust -- it ruins the fruits. From past threads on this topic some people here were doing OK with their quince but I don't think they had them as long as I did. It was a great tree for about five years and then the diseases started to build up. I took them out after about ten years growing. Then again as you recall from the no-spray apple thread, sometimes the right set of circumstances aligns and it works out. Now I have a few supposed fireblight resistant ones I am trying. They are from a Bulgarian breeding program via the ARS. so far they have not gotten fireblight as badly as the other ones but they are seedlings so the fruit might not be very good. I will be spraying them for quince rust if they ever make fruit. Scott |
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