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Lucky Pittman, one of my fruit growing friends who lives in Western Kentucky (originally from LA), sent me a huge bundle of quince cuttings. He said it was from seeds supplied by Lon Rombough. Lucky said that these cuttings would root from hardwood cuttings and were bullet-proof in his humid, mid-South location. He was right about them rooting from cuttings. |
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A couple of cuttings with roots. |
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One of the better cuttings. Not all cuttings pushed roots. The ones that did best were larger diameter and may have been in the shaded portion of the mother bush. |
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I planted most of them two-to-a-hole. If both survive I will move the smaller one and use it elsewhere. |
I used these cuttings to fill spots in my young orchard where the trees I planted did not survive. I have a lot of failures but I keep banging away until something sticks.
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The shape of these fruit is voluptuous. The Kardashians have nothing on Shams Quince. |
The rest of the backstory is that the maternal tree was an elite
variety from the middle-East that was pleasant to eat out of hand. Lon was a good friend of the folks at Corvallis and I suspect that he was given scionwood from
The Curator's Choice collection. Unless you consider Turkey to be part of the middle-East, then
Shams (from Iran) is the best candidate for Lon's super-duper quince.
Since they are seedlings, the fruit will be different than the maternal tree. I wait with bated breath to see what kind of fruit they produce. The worst that can happen is that I graft them to something else.
Potatoes
Time to clean out the root cellar. The potatoes are still in pretty good shape. A little bit wrinkled but sound. Guess what we are eating tonight.
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Salamander's woods is filled with this grass, Elymus hystrix. Also known as Eastern Bottlebrush Grass. |
It is shade tolerant and "leafy", which suggests that it would be a good forage grass if it can tolerate grazing or cutting.
I would not be surprised if some of this seed followed me home some day.
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