[Sca-cooks] When to Pick Quince?

[Mark Hendershott]

At 02:13 PM 9/12/2003 -0400, you 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

Here in Western Oregon quinces are ripe in October.  They should be yellow 
and fragrant.  They don't get soft.

Simon Sinneghe
Briaroak, Summits, An Tir