Thread: Quinces - speckles and brown insides
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Old 13-11-2006, 06:08 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
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Default Quinces - speckles and brown insides
On Sat, 11 Nov 2006 15:35:36 +0100, ur
(Merlin) wrote:

I have two very productive quince trees, however a large proportion of
the fruit is affected by a "problem". The skin has largish numbers of
tiny black / grey dots and when you cut (hack!) the fruit open the
inside is heavily veined with brown to such an extent that 50%+ of the
fruit mass is brown and because it's veined that makes 100% of the fruit
mass useless.

Does anyone recognise this condition and can anyone put a name to it?
And ideally of course, I'd like to know what I can do to prevent it in
future.

Many thanks

Merl

A couple of wild guesses: shortage of water (bitter pit in apples is
more common in dry seasons) and boron deficiency (associated with
browning of some root crops and others). Probably neither of these,
but both easy to correct on a just-in-case basis.



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