Now here's a funny thing....

I have a quince tree (a proper one, real fruits an' everything) and it's puzzling me.
I thought it might have quince blight but it's an odd one.
Tle leaves are simply going half brown. From the tip of the leaf, to about half way towards the stalk, it's brown. from the stalk to half way down the leaf, it's green.
It's not widespread. Just the odd occasional one. Full blossom, now fruits have set, although small.

I also have a medlar, which IS displaying some minor signs of blight, but all the blossoms have set, and I have good fruits developing.

They're both in large and very heavy pots, not in the ground....
The quince is around 8' - 10' tall, the medlar around 5'.

Thoughts, anyone? Spraying? preventative measures? What's going on with the quince? Should I plant them in open ground...?

 

Hello @TaraMaiden to GC and nice to have you with us

Is it possible you can add pic's please as this does help members a lot when being asked advice on plants ...I've never add one personally but there's many members with rare plants

 

@TaraMaiden this link may help you in the meantime until other members answer

How to grow quinces / RHS Gardening

 

Yes, I was just about to do that... bear with me, I'm not very technical! :D

 

Medlar photos. I'm having trouble dealing with the technology, so apologies for any errors...!

 

Quince

 

medlar again

 

Am trying to post another photo of the quince, but I keep getting the message that "the selected image does not have the allowed extension".... yet it's exactly the same as all the others.

 

Hi @TaraMaiden I've looked it up for you and your quince as Leaf bright and it causes the leaves to also go yellow...sorry to hear it mate ...the link below tells you how to treat it and thanks for adding the pic's

Quince leaf blight/RHS Gardening

 

Hi, yes, it's annoying, particularly as when I advised the Garden centre whence I bought the tree, that I suspected blight, they hotly denied it could possibly ever be suffering from it, as they invested specifically in blight-resistant trees.

Unfortunately, someone omitted to inform my Quince tree.
Their heads should roll.....

 

You just need to treat it mate and hope for the best...it's like me paying good money in the past for roses that looked healthy but didn't last, it gets you mad at the time

 

Sometimes I think many gardeners - and I include myself - expect perfection. We want everything to look its best, and are wont to be impatient or critical.
We can get sentimental about certain plants and their cultivation, and want everything to thrive as we believe it should, rather than sometimes consider that in seeking perfection, we have rendered the plant in question, actually more vulnerable and susceptible to problems.
So then we throw whatever we see and feel fit to throw at it, in order to control the anomaly, thereby possibly intervening,and averting what should naturally happen....
The vast majority of our plants are genetically structured and altered to meet our aesthetic requirements. so our gardens are actually constructs....

I remember watching the wonderful Alan Titchmarsh in his garden, one spring, tending the remains of daffodil and crocus leaves, and begging viewers to not tie them into neat knots. "Your garden's not a sock-drawer!" he exclaimed, and he was right.
I always remember that when I'm tempted to make everything look 'aesthetically pleasing'....
So yes, I will treat the quince accordingly.
But I'm not going to lose sleep over its lack of performance.... There will be other plants....

 

Any plants here that don't look right or healthy and i'm being truthful here...they're in the bin like 5 I've just got rid of and new ones brought, the 5 I removed had Alphids on them and like a very small form of a tick/beatle and when I was treating the decking wood by them I got bit by the eye and my eye soon swelled out...i'm glad they're gone and how many more of my plants could they have affected.

These are the ones I throwed out in different colours

 

Well, that's it. Both the quince and the medlar have been binned. Drastic, I know, but it turns out that the medlar had cedar rust (nasty spiky infection!) which spread really rapidly(!) and the quince...? Well, I spoke to a groundsman at the Garden Centre whence I bought it - and he tells me that with judicious pruning, spraying and tidying, plus keeping a watchful eye and dealing with problems promptly - I could kick this blight in 3 years or so, but not get any fruit during that time, or if fruit did set, to dispose of it as inedible due to the spray.

Well, I'm sorry, sod that for a game of soldiers....! So I'm left with 2 cut down stumps which I shall dispose of in due course, but I cut down all the top growth, carefully picked up every trace of leaves, twigs and everything, and took it all rather unceremoniously up to the local dump.
I shall stick to my 'Brown Turkey fig and my grapevine cuttings... I have plenty of black and white grape cuttings, but have no idea what precise varieties they are as the cuttings were taken from vines the names of which had long been forgotten....

 

Hello @TaraMaiden sorry to hear your plants have ended up at the local dump mate...it breaks your heart when your trying to mature something and then it turns against you