[Sca-cooks] When to Pick Quince?

[Susan Fox-Davis]

Quinces when ripe have the seeming of apples that are not!  Big, yellow 
and hard as rocks.  If it were I, I would wait until a few started 
falling from the tree on their own, then scarf up the ripest of the rest.

You will share, won't you?  <sucking in cheeks, trying pathetically for 
that lean hungry look>

Selene


Peldyn at aol.com wrote:

>I live about 20 miles from a grove of quince trees. A small private museum 
>planted them years ago to see if they would grow in the area. I know the people 
>who run it and they do nothing with the fruit. I want to go and pick it when 
>it is ripe, but when is that??? I am in the Mojave Desert, if that affects 
>ripening time. My pomegranates are never ripe until the end of Oct, beginning of 
>Nov.
>Visions of quince jelly and quince tarts dance through my head!
>Peldyn
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