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Parentage / Origin:
Co Op 17 x Golden Delicious; PRI (Purdue, Rutgers, Illinois Co Op), 1994
Harvest / Season:
Description: Fruit is conic-round, medium large, a deep uniform greenish yellow. Flesh is hard, very crisp and breaking. Sugar-acid balance slightly favors tartness at harvest, mellowing slightly in storage. Storage exceeds 6 months.
Harvest / Season: Harvest: Mid September to late October; Season: October - December
Description: Large conic golden yellow fruit. Firm, crisp, juicy, flavorful flesh. Mild sweet distinctive flavor. High quality all purpose. Shrivels in storage. Requires gentle picking, bruises easily.
Tree Characteristics:
Moderately vigorous, round headed tree with wide crotch angles. Bears very young and annually if thinned. Self fertile.
Photo courtesy of: Sponsel's Minnesota Harvest
Golden Earl
Parentage / Origin:
Minnesota
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid to late September; Season: September - December
Description: Very hard, yellow apple. The flesh is very coarse and dryish. The flavor has components of both Honeygold and Haralson with the crunchiness of Northwestern Greening. Interesting traits of this apple are the ripeness bumps and deep calyx.
Tree Characteristics:
Photo courtesy of: Sponsel's Minnesota Harvest
Golden Haralson
Parentage / Origin:
Limb sport of Red Haralson; Minnesota
Harvest / Season:
Description: Gold apple with pink blush on side of apple facing the sun. Taste similar to Haralson - mildly tart.
Description: Pure yellow fruit with creamy white flesh and excellent texture. One of the best cooking apples with high acid and an extremely good fruity flavor.
Tree Characteristics:
Trees are upright, spreading and moderately vigorous.
Golden Nugget
Parentage / Origin:
Golden Russet x Cox's Orange Pippin; Nova Scotia, 1932 / 1949
Harvest / Season: Harvest: September, Season: October - November
Description: A small, broadly conical, long-stemmed predominately yellow fruit with orange streaks and splashes. Crisp, juicy flesh with extra sweet, rich, mellow flavor. Fine for eating out of hand, excellent for pies, sauce and apple butter. Short keeping life.
Tree Characteristics:
vigorous, disease resistant tree.
Golden Pearmain
Parentage / Origin:
Harvest / Season: Harvest: mid-season.
Description: An extremely good eating apple of medium size and rather flat form. The skin is rough with a large portion of bright russet mingled with red toward the sun when fully ripe. The flesh is rich, tender and rather dry. It is a good uniform bearer. Valuable for cider and for family use.
Tree Characteristics:
Golden Reinette
Parentage / Origin:
Europe, Late 1700s
Harvest / Season: Harvest: October, Season: October - January
Description: Excellent eating apple, good for cider. Small green to golden-yellow fruit with russet spots and a dull blush.
Tree Characteristics:
Photo courtesy of: Black Diamond Farm
Golden Russet
Parentage / Origin:
Seedling of English Russet; New York, 1845
Harvest / Season: Harvest: late October, Season: October - March
Description: Excellent cider apple. The fruit is medium-sized, russeted skin, varying from grey-green to bronze with a copper-orange cheek. The flesh is fine grained and crisp, with sugary juices.
