Growing Quince from Grocery Store Fruit Seeds: Expect Variable Results

You saved seeds from grocery quince (likely Cydonia oblonga), stratified on moist paper towel in fridge. Wonder about success, fruit quality, time to fruit, and cutting propagation.

Seed Reality

Most store fruit is hybridized; seedlings will be genetically unstable—fruit and tree likely inferior to parent. Not “true to type.” Could take ~5 years to fruit (not 10).

Cutting Propagation

Requires grafting onto hardy rootstock; not simple rooting. For reliable cultivar, buy a grafted tree from a nursery.

Exception

If the fruit was open-pollinated with no other quince nearby, seeds may produce similar offspring.