Golden Delicious apple trees

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• Picking season: Late
• Self-fertility: Partially self-fertile
• Flowering group: 4

Golden Delicious is a popular supermarket apple variety with a reputation for a bland flavour. However, when home-grown in good conditions, and allowed to ripen on the tree is a very different proposition - a handsomely-shaped apple with a golden-green skin, crisp juicy flesh, and a rich sweet flavour, reminscent of raw cane sugar. If you like crisp sweet apples then it is hard to beat a home-grown Golden Delicious, picked late in the autumn when properly ripe.

Home-grown Golden Delicious apples still retain the advantages of commercially grown examples - they are versatile for eating fresh or using in the kitchen, and of course they are one of the best apples for long-term storage, retaining flavour and crispness for several months in a cold shed or in the fridge.

Golden Delicious organic apple trees for sale

Next deliveries: December 2023 - February 2024.

• 1Maidentree on M9 rootstock22.25€
  Small tree (1.5m-2.5m after 10 years) Bare-root
  

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• 2Maidentree on M116 rootstock22.95€
  Medium tree (2m-3.5m after 10 years) Bare-root
  

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• 3Maidentree on MM111 rootstock22.25€
  Large tree (3m-5m after 10 years) Bare-root
  

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• 4Maidentree on Bittenfelder rootstock22.25€
  Very large tree (5m-6m+ after 10 years) Bare-root
  

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If you do not hear from us by March you can contact us to pre-order for next autumn.

Growing and Training

Golden Delicious is easy to grow, and very productive. It prefers a dry climate, and a warm autumn helps.

It is a good pollinator for other apple varieties because it flowers over a long period.

History

Golden Delicious was discovered in West Virginia, USA, in the 1890s, and is probably a seedling of an old American variety called Grimes Golden.

Golden Delicious characteristics

• Gardening skillAverage
• Self-fertilityPartially self-fertile
• Flowering group4
• Pollinating othersGood
• PloidyDiploid
• Fruit bearingSpur-bearer
• Climate suitabilityTemperate climatesWarm climates
• Picking periodearly October
• Picking seasonLate
• Season of use3 months or more
• CroppingHeavy
• Food usesEating freshCulinary
• ScabSome susceptibility
• CankerSome susceptibility
• MildewSome susceptibility
• Fire blightSome susceptibility
• Country of originUnited States
• Period of origin1850 - 1899
• Fruit colourGreenGreen - lightGreen / Yellow