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 2025

• 11 yeartree on M9 rootstock24.25€
  Small tree (1.5m-2.5m after 10 years) Bare-root
  

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• 21 yeartree on MM111 rootstock24.25€
  Large tree (3m-5m after 10 years) Bare-root
  

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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

• Attractive featuresAttractive flowers
• Gardening skillAverage
• Self-fertilityPartially self-fertile
• Flowering group4
• Picking seasonLate
• Season of use3 months or more
• Food usesEating freshCulinary
• Cold hardiness (USDA)Zone 5 (-29C)
• Summer average maximum temperaturesCool ( 20-24C / 68-75F)Warm (25-30C / 76-85F)
• Chill requirementLow-chill - 700
• Country of originUnited States
• Period of origin1850 - 1899
• Flower colourWhite
• Fruit colourGreenGreen - lightGreen / Yellow

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