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Blushing Golden
type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie
synonyms: Gold Blush
summary: Similar in many ways to the Golden Delicious apple, this chance seedling has a somewhat more brisk and tangy flavour.
identification: Medium size, tending to large. Conic, yellow base colour with a pronounced orange-red blush on the sun-exposed face.
characteristics: Firm, juicy, tangy. Golden Delicious flavour, but slightly more brisk. Flavour improves in storage.
origins: Listed as a chance seedling found by Ralph B. Griffith on his father's orchard in Cobden, Illinois (U.S.A.) in 1959. Listed as a cross of Jonathan and Golden Delicious and introduced by Stark Brothers Nursery in 1968.
cultivation: Somewhat precocious, producing the first crop four years after planting. Bears crops on an annual basis.
cold storage: Keeps up to five months in cold storage.
harvest: Ready for harvest starting early in the fifth period.
pollination group: C
pollination peak: 10
ploidism: Diploid. Self Sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
brix: 13
harvest period: 5
hardiness: 4
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