AusBonsai

Well we got a very big sucker out with some roots, but it has to be pruned back, so I will use the prunings and plant them. Thanks for the idea.

BB. sounds like your plant is Japanese quince AKA Chaenomeles or japonica or flowering quince. They are usually spiny and grow as a freely suckering shrub. Red, pink or white flowers late winter on bare branches. I have found them quite difficult as bonsai because of the continual suckering. You should be able to dig down a bit and find some roots on some suckers. Even a tiny bit of root is enough but they are pretty easy to strike as cuttings too.

Chinese quince (which this thread is about) is more treelike and produces larger golden fruit after flowering in spring. They have beautiful peeling bark.

One of my seeds has sprouted. Hurrah. I'll cut the end branches off the one with roots as well. That should do me. I hope?

Neil, I have one with roots attached. The fruit is about small apple size. Hard as bricks, smells nice when opened. By the way if anyone cares to come to Armidale NSW and get a cutting you are welcome.

Neil, I have one with roots attached. The fruit is about small apple size. Hard as bricks, smells nice when opened. By the way if anyone cares to come to Armidale NSW and get a cutting you are welcome.