Our Variety Assessment

Its strengths, growing requirements and the conditions in which it performs best.

GoldRush is one of the most convincing modern varieties for growing. Highly resistant to scab, productive and winter-hardy, it produces dense, crisp apples with an intense sweet-sharp flavour, excellent for eating, juice and pies. The fruit improves in storage and can keep until spring. Its very late ripening nevertheless requires a long and sufficiently warm autumn.

Goldrush

Price range: 26,50 € through 59,75 €

A modern disease-resistant apple, like Golden Delicious but with a better tart/sweet balance. Good for eating fresh and juicing / cider.

Choose your tree form

1 year old grafted tree – approx. 1–2 m

Half-standard – 1 to 1.5 m stem

Low-stem tree – approx. 60 cm stem

Standard tree – 1.8 m stem and over

Apple rootstock options

Bittenfelder – approx. 6 m mature height

EM9 – approx. 2.5 m mature height

M116 – approx. 4 m mature height

MM111 – approx. 4 m mature height

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SKU: 6908 Categories: Apple trees, Eating apple trees

Description

GoldRush is a modern disease-resistant apple, equally suitable for commercial growers or gardeners and home orchardists. It is widely recognised as one of the best of all modern apples, both in terms of its flavour and its growth characteristics. It makes a fine addition to any backyard orchard.

Its parentage is complex, but it is derived from Golden Delicious and it inherits that variety’s excellent crisp texture, sweetness, and long storage capability.

The flavour when freshly-picked is pronounced and distinctly sharper than Golden Delicious, but it sweetens in storage and it has a good balance of sweet and sharp flavours.

The trees grow with a compact and neat habit, and are usually untroubled by diseases, making it an excellent choice for a no-spray orchard. Feedback from customers and posts in online orchard forums suggest GoldRush really does have excellent disease-resistance.

In the USA, where it originates, GoldRush has become popular for hard cider production – it is a juicy apple, and the juice is also very characterful, with an intense rich tangy sweetness which makes a great addition to cider blends. It is a good variety for sweet cider too.