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Originally Posted by jersanct

Greetings.

I bought a Quince from a local nursery recently and had planned to plant it in a grow box this fall, as I understand that "late fall" is the best time for repotting Quince. It is unclear to me, however, whether by late fall we mean before or after the leaves drop.

Mine has lost its leaves, some time ago, and we currently are having unseasonably warm weather in St. Louis, if that matters. If anyone could please tell me whether I can get this into a grow box now, or if I will have to wait for another year, I would appreciate it.

Thanks very much,

Chris

Hi,

I am assuming you are working with a Japanese type here?, that is what I have worked with and what my advice will be for.

There should be no rush to transplant now, the tree won't be doing any significant growing until spring. Keep your tree in winter storage for now and wait until spring to repot these, only a 2 or 3 month wait for you. In spring when you first see signs of flower and maybe some leaf buds opening is the time to act, right before they really start to flower out. This is when the roots have pushed the energy back up to the trunk and branches and you can chop away or do what work if any you need to do on them. I have worked J. quince roots very hard in spring, they respond well.

Careful if you are doing any early spring branch pruning and you like the flowers, you will be clipping unseen new flowers right off there. They pop from a previous years growth always in spring and the process should last a few months off and on.