Golden Delicious originated in West Virginia on the family farm of J.M. Mullins. It is now the official state fruit.
Even though Golden Delicious is one of the 15 most popular apples in the United States, it is an heirloom from the early 1900’s. If you’ve eaten Golden Delicious from the store, you haven’t really eaten it. The ones in the store are picked green. A home-grown Golden Delicious allowed to ripen on the tree is honey sweet and juicy. In fact, it is one of the parent apples of the Honey Crisp that gave it its sweetness.
In 2010, an Italian Consortium found that Golden Delicious has the highest number of genes of any plant genome every studied to that date.
Golden Delicious is great for eating fresh, in salads, and for applesauce and apple butter.
We are offering it as a dwarf tree that will get around 10′ tall. Great for small spaces! What’s more, we’ve put it on a double rootstock that will give it all the perks of disease resistance, hardiness and a deeply rooted tree like the larger-sized trees. Most dwarf trees you buy in the store have roots that branch out just under the surface, so during droughts they will need significant amounts of water to survive, and they may blow over in high winds or with heavy snowfalls. These will send their roots deep to create a sturdier tree.
Pollinate with Northern Spy, Nova Spy, GoldRush, Fuji, Crimson Crisp, Wolf River and Summer Rambo
