
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).
Where to buy trees
The following tree nurseries offer GoldRush apple trees for sale:
Where to buy fresh fruit
United States
Alabama
Arizona
Colorado
Connecticut
Georgia
Illinois
Indiana
- Apple of His Eye, Anderson
- Apple Works, Trafalgar
- Cook's Orchard, Fort Wayne
- Crosby's Orchard, Lawrenceburg
- Deer Creek Orchard, Galveston
- Ditzler Orchard, Rosedale
- Doud's Countyline Orchard, Wabash
- G. W. Stroh Orchards, Angola
- Goley's Orchard, Madison
- HighPoint Orchard & Farm Market, Greensburg
- Lee's Orchard, Columbus
- McClure's Orchard, Peru
- Schafer Orchards, Princeton
- Tuttle Orchards, Greenfield
- Harker Family Farms & Orchard, Waldron
Iowa
Kansas
Kentucky
Maine
Massachusetts
Michigan
Missouri
New Jersey
New York
North Carolina
Ohio
- Apple Hill Orchards, Mansfield
- Arrowhead Orchard, Paris
- Bauman Orchards, Rittman
- Burnham Orchards, Berlin Heights
- Charlie's Apples at Windy Hill Apple Farm, Newark
- Eshleman Fruit Farm, Clyde
- Fuhrmann Orchards, Wheelersburg
- Hidden Hills Orchard, Marietta
- Hugus Fruit Farm, Rushville
- Lynd Fruit Farm, Pataskala
- Moreland Fruit Farm, Wooster
- Ochs Fruit Farm, Lancaster
- Peifer Orchards, Yellow Springs
- Reaver Farms Orchard, South Charleston
- Rittman Orchards, Doylestown
- Tüken's Farm Market and Orchard, West Alexandria
Oklahoma
Oregon
Pennsylvania
Texas
Virginia
Washington
West Virginia
Canada