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Gideon Sweet
type: Dessert
synonyms: Gideon
summary: Though thought to have been lost, a fair number of these sweet, Blue-Pearmain-type apples have been found in the northwestern United States over the last quarter century.
identification: Medium tending to large size, round to round conic, often oblate with noticeable ribbing on the sides. Base colour green maturing to yellow, blushed deep red verging on purple with darker striping. Russet lenticels are small and abundant around the calyx basin, larger and less numerous on the rest of the fruit. Develops a slight, blue bloom on the surface as it ripens. The stem is long and moderately stout, set in wide and deep cavity which is marked with russet. The calyx is small, usually closed with long, pointed lobes set in a shallow basin.
characteristics: The flesh is creamy-yellowish, firm and crisp. Coarse-grained. Juicy, lightly aromatic and sweet with an underlying tartness that gradually disappears in storage.
origins: According to U.P. Hedrick in his "Cyclopedia of Hardy Fruits" (published in 1922), the Gideon Sweet was developed in the 1870s by plant breeder Peter Gideon of Excelsior, Minnesota (U.S.A.) Believed to be a cross of Siberian Crabapple and Blue Pearmain .
cultivation: Vigorous, spreading and dense. Produces the best crops every other year.
cold storage: Keeps up to five months. Tends to shrivel when kept over-long.
vulnerabilities: Susceptible to fire blight.
harvest: Ready for harvest late in the fourth period.
notes: Resembles the Bethel apple closely but differs from it in that the flesh does not have tinges of red. The Gideon also tends to be sweeter.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 20
harvest period: 4
hardiness: 4
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