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GoldRush apple



GoldRush is an attractive smooth-skinned modern dessert apple, specifically developed for scab-resistance.  The flavour is good, typical of Golden Delicious but with a bit more acidity.  As a relatively new variety there is not much experience yet, but it appears to be good at most of the things Golden Delicious is good at, including keeping well and with excellent juice.

The variety is derived from Golden Delicious as the seed parent, with crosses from several other research varieties including Winesap, Melrose, Rome Beauty and Malus floribunda - the latter being a well-known source of the Vf scab-resistant gene.

More details of the scientific programme that led to GoldRush can be found at the Purdue University website: http://www.hort.purdue.edu/newcrop/pri/coop38-3.html.  GoldRush is sometimes known by its programme reference Coop38.

GoldRush makes a good garden apple variety - heavy-cropping, good disease-resistance, winter-hardy, and almost foolproof to grow.  Its one drawback is susceptibility to Cedar Apple Rust (CAR).

Last updated 18 Apr 2013.

A modern disease-resistant apple variety related to Golden Delicious, with crisp hard flesh and a good sugar / acid balance.

Origins

  • Species: Malus domestica
  • Parentage: Seed parent is Golden Delicious
  • Originates from: Purdue Research Farm, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, United States
  • Introduced: 1990s
  • Developed by: Joint breeding programme of Indiana, Illinois, and New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Stations.
  • Orange Pippin Cultivar ID: 155700

Identification

  • Fruit colour: Yellow / Gold
  • Flesh colour: White
  • Fruit size: Medium

Using

  • Good for eating fresh
  • Good for cooking
  • Good for juice
  • Good for hard cider
  • Flavour quality: Very good
  • Flavour style: Sweeter
  • Ripening period: Very-Late season Ripens in early November
  • Use / keeping: 3 months or more Can easily be stored for 6 months in a domestic fridge

Growing

  • Cropping: Heavy
  • Flowering period: Late season
  • Flowering group: 5
  • Fertility: Self-sterile
  • Triploid: No
  • Vigour: Slightly small
  • Biennial tendency
  • Precocity: Precocious
  • Fruit bearing: Spur-bearer

Climate

  • Suitable for warm climates
  • Suitable for temperate climates
  • Tolerates cold winters

Disease resistance

  • Scab  - Very resistant
  • Mildew  - Very resistant
  • Fireblight  - Some resistance
  • Cedar apple rust  - Some susceptibility

Relationships to other varieties

Parents and other ancestors of this variety:

References and further reading

  • Cedar-Apple Rust  
    Author: Stephen Vann, University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture (FSA7538)
    Rated as highly susceptible - control always needed where CAR is prevalent.

GoldRush identification photos from website visitors


submitted by North Star Orchard, Pennsylvania, USA tape


submitted by North Star Orchard, Pennsylvania, USA

GoldRush tape


GoldRush

GoldRush young tree tape


GoldRush young tree

Copyright: M. Gallagher


Rate this variety for flavor

Current rating: 5.0 out of 5. Total votes cast: 11
 

Visitor comments

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26 Dec 2012 Annee BorthwickNY, United States
Have an urban garden and am looking at those apples that please me and who's color will not be irresistible to the passerby
08 Nov 2012 Monique In TxCOLLEGE STATION, United States
Why on earth would you eat a Golden Delicious when you could eat one of these?! Tried a small one from an organic farm in Kansas in early November. Juicy, crisp, and intensely sweet, balanced nicely by acid.
25 Jun 2012 KirkOREGON, UNITED STATES, United States
We pick this apple in early November and put it in bags in a detached and unheated garage (that doesn't get too far below freezing). The apples finish ripening off the tree (in our garage) in December and January. We don't bother eating them until January after the flavor develops. The apples are excellent until we run out of them in May. Even when the outside gets wrinkled in later storage, the inside is still juicy and intensely flavorful. Even the wrinkled skin is nice to eat because it's not waxy. We're going to plant more of these trees.
08 Jun 2012 Kim BarsonVA, United States
These are the tastiest apples I have ever tried! The local Farmers Market had samples and I am hooked. It is almost summer and these apples still have terrific flavor. I am wondering if the flavor is still this good so long after harvest, when they are fresh, would the flavor be too intense?
15 Feb 2012 RayNY, United States
An excellent apple and an excellent tree for home orchard. Very easy to grow. You will need to spray for cedar rust if you have cedars nearby and they are prone to late summer diseases (Sooty blotch and flyspec) if the weather is wet. Wonderful tasting after storage for 6 weeks or more and stores exceptionally well. Makes one of the best pies I've ever tasted.
16 Jan 2011 Patrick sNW VIRGINIA, United States
A wonderful apple in VA, intense flavor and very firm dense flesh that keeps forever. My two young trees seem to be very disease resistant and manageable. Nice deep green waxy foliage like many of the more disease resistant cultivars.
01 Dec 2010 TedPENNSYLVANIA, United States
Goldrush apples are great here in eastern PA. They are by far the favorite apple of our family. The trees bear young and heavily. A real winner in a backyard orchard.
28 Nov 2010 Pat LyonDODDOGNE, France
this is an amazing apple that we buy by the crate from a local apple farm. Where can we buy some young trees of our own here in France?
13 Nov 2010 Stemy MynhierSC, United States
Tried this apple at Century Farms Orchards in NC. It is now one of my new favorite apples. It is nice crisp apple and is very sweet with a very rich, complex flavor.
12 Oct 2010 Bettina BrussBRUSSELS, Belgium
Where can I buy a gold rush apple tree in Belgium?

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Latest Spring blossom records for this variety

2013 season

  • 20th May  2013  - tree owned by Richard in YORK, United Kingdom

2012 season

  • 9th May  2012  - tree owned by Florian in Brush Prairie, United States
  • 20th March  2012  - tree owned by Mark in Harvest, United States

2011 season

  • 20th May  2011  - tree owned by Ron in ORION, United States
  • 31st March  2011  - tree owned by Mark in Harvest, United States

2010 season

  • 10th April  2010  - tree owned by Mark in Harvest, United States

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Latest harvest records for this variety

2013 season

    2012 season

      2011 season

      • 2nd week October  2011  - tree owned by J.P.Curry in STURGEON, United States
      • 2nd week September  2011  - tree owned by Mark in Harvest, United States

      2010 season

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