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Golden Delicious Apple Tree

Golden Delicious Apple Tree

These apple will have diverse uses due to their juicy, sweet and honey-like flavor. It is also an excellent choice for eating fresh, making dessert, apple sauce, and soft apple cider. It keeps well in storage for around 5 months. However it isn’t very disease resistant.

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General Tree Height/Caliper: Most of our fruit trees (apple, peach, apricot, plum, pear, nectarine, quince, and cherry) are grafted/budded and are 4-6' tall with a caliper/diameter of about 1/4-3/4". Most have more than 5' height and 1/2" diameter. The other trees are seedlings, such as pawpaw, mulberry, persimmon, shade, berry, and flowering trees which range from 18-36" tall.

A rootstock primarily controls a tree's size and how early it bears fruit. Learn more about our specific rootstocks.

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Golden Delicious Apple Tree Overview

The Golden Delicious apple tree is well known not only for having well-keeping apples, but also for their diverse uses because of their juicy, sweet and honey-like flavor. In fact, you can use golden delicious apples to make desserts, apple sauces, soft apple cider as well as to eating them fresh! J.M. Mullins discovered Golden Delicious on his father’s farm in Wast Virginia in 1891. And in 1955, Golden Delicious became the official state fruit for West Virginia.

Just like any other apple tree, the Golden Delicious apple tree grows best when it’s planted in full sun in well-draining soil. The tree is moderately vigorous and produces a good crop each year if thinned, otherwise it will be biennial. Additionally it grows well in hardiness zones 5 to 8 and tolerates late frosts. In humid conditions however it may develop russet skin. Golden Delicious keeps well in cold storage for up to five months. However It is not very disease resistant.

Tree Characteristics

  • Uses: Eating fresh, dessert, making apple sauce, making soft apple cider
  • Taste: Sweet, juicy, fragrant, honey-like taste
  • Size: Medium to Large
  • Color: Greenish yellow to golden yellow. Can have a red blush. Flesh is creamy.
  • Hardiness Zones: 5 – 8
  • Disease resistance
    • Scab – susceptible
    • Rust – susceptible
    • Canker – susceptible
    • Fireblight – moderately susceptible
    • Mildew – resistant
    • Brown rot – slightly susceptible
  • Harvest period: 5
  • Flowering Group: 4
  • Cross Pollinates with: Granny Smith, Harry Masters Jersey, Honeycrisp to name a few!
  • Cultivation: This apple tree is moderately vigorous. Round spreading tree. Bears fruit on spurs. Produces heavy cropping. Needs to be thinned after fruit sets to make sure you get annual harvests. If not thinned, will become biennial. In humid conditions develops russet skin.
  • Storage: Keeps well in cold storage for five months.
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  • Our shipping cost is 15-25% of the order total (depending on the size of the trees and how far the state is from NY) plus our handling fee which includes light pruning, packaging, printing, and quality checks.
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  • Note: we ship to Hawaii and Alaska however the shipping price is higher.

Warranty

  • If your tree doesn’t grow by July 1st or dies in the fall of the first year, please email us with a photo, order number, and description of the issue.
  • If the issue is related with the tree itself rather than lack of care, we guarantee to replace it next season or give a full refund.

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  • You can cancel your order to receive a full refund, but please note that cancelling an order after April 1st will result in a partial refund of 75% of the order total.
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  • If due to unforeseen circumstances your ordered tree is no longer available, you can get a full refund or a substitution with another variety.