Great news! Hubby found a bush of Japanese quince in a nearby yard that has been abandoned!
There are plenty of uses for this plant. Here's a link to the site of a friend of ours - Paul, a British expat living in Bulgaria and permaculture expert and teacher.
http://balkanecologyproject.blogspot.com/2016/12/the-quincessential-guide-to-japanese.html
So a new task is forming - grow the plant from seeds! Look at how many seeds there are in those 4 fruit!
We will be setting them to germinate indoors next month and see how it goes. If they grow nicely, we'll have more than enough plants to share with friends and family!
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Nice find! were the seeds covered with the same gel that the european quince seeds are coated with?
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Just a bit, but then our regular quince don't really have much goo on the seeds. The cores are rich in pectin but you have to boil them to extract it.
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I made quince sauce this year... oh yes lots of pectin!! The seeds have so much mucilage when water is added, I was very surprised. I will have to post about it soon, you've inspired me :)
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