Schar's Giant Japanese Quince

I have always liked Japanese quinces. I like their flowers and I like the fact they make fruit no matter what. I planted half a dozen varieties around the farm and as could be expected, they produced a lot of fruit. I wrote a book, "Japanese Herbal Medicine" and the fruit of the Japanese quince was mentioned many times as a source of medicine. You can read about it as a medicine below. 

Anyhow, I decided to work on making the fruit bigger. So, each year, I would collect thee biggest fruits I could find, and I planted the seeds. They are fast growers so they fruit fast. And, I selected the biggest fruits I could find, and again planted the seeds. I did this for like 14 years and finally produced a Japanese quince that produces a fruit the size of a big apple. It just produces a HUGE fruit. If you know anything about Japanese quinces, it resembles the variety called Toyo Nishika. It's basically an apple blossomed colored bloom. That bush gets big, 12 feet tall, and is covered with tons of big fruits. What do you do with them? Well, you can make cough medicine. But, mostly I use them to make Jam and Jelly. The fruit contains 30 times more vitamin C than a lemon, so for the homesteaders, if you want to avoid scurvy, you need one of these bushes. 

The other cool use of the fruit is this. They are so loaded with acid and pectin, you can grate them into your jams or jellies and you do not need to add pectin! 

I did quite a lot of research on Japanese quinces and it seems the Eastern Europeans have done a lot of work to create a bigger fruited plant too. Because of the vitamin c content. I also discovered there are three main species, Chaenomeles Sinica, Chaenomeles japonica, and Chaenomeles Cathayensis. Most of the plants we buy are hybrids of the three. So, I suspect the plants I used to select for bigger and bigger fruit have parentage of all three in them. 

It took a long time to get the fruit this big, but, I would say it's big enough. You can order the seeds or the plants from my ebay store. You will need to paste the link below into your browser or you can go to ebay and enter Japanese quince and you will see the ad.