This year has been a year of interesting weather so far: a dry cold April and a wet wet wet May. Here we are in a warm so far June and the Quince Brothers are bedecked with quincelets.
and I mean bedecked!
It looks like against all the odds, almost every blossom has become a quincelet. I have even done that thing I try not to do, which is to gently give them a little push to see if they are attached - and they are, they actually are.
Both trees, Major and Minor, have more quincelets than I have ever seen before.
It is tremendously exciting! Now I whilst I am wildly optimistic about the current state of events I am not unrealistic in believing that every quincelet will become a quince. I should be so lucky as Kylie would say (sing).
I will be spending the next month anxiously watching the quincelets. I just hope they don't turn out to be quincelings ...... I will try to resist routinely testing how well they are attached, but it is difficult to resist. I will resist stapling or glueing them to the branches, though it is very tempting.
Time, of course, will tell - just wish me luck!
Thanks as ever to Squirrelbasket for stewarding the forest of followed trees.
