nickbachman
Sapling
Doesn't sound right together, does it? I found this interesting unlabeled thornless flowering quince at the nursery today. At first it looked like a bunch of suckers, but looking closer revealed a bird nest style "trunk" of tigthly gnarled trunks and roots about the shape of a big fat pine cone, with branches popping all out of it. The "trunk" in the center is about softball sized, 4.5" tall and 6" wide at the base. It's very tightly packed, light does not pass through the center section. It's going out of leaf for the season, but almost everything you see is live growth (after an hour of tweezering fallen leaves and a few small dead branches out of the thicket). Not sure of the variety, but the leaves are quite small. The largest left on the plant are still smaller than a quarter.
I'm not too familiar with quince and I really don't want to kill it. Am I alright repotting it an cutting it back a bit in the spring? It has buds all over the new and old wood, even many close to the "trunk." I don't know how much cutting back these can take, I don't want to push it too hard. Also looking for thoughts on canopy shape. Any advice from the Quince guys on the forum? Thanks for looking!
I'm not too familiar with quince and I really don't want to kill it. Am I alright repotting it an cutting it back a bit in the spring? It has buds all over the new and old wood, even many close to the "trunk." I don't know how much cutting back these can take, I don't want to push it too hard. Also looking for thoughts on canopy shape. Any advice from the Quince guys on the forum? Thanks for looking!