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Honeygold
type: Culinary, Dessert, Pie, Sauce
synonyms: Sometimes erroneously called Golden Haralson which is actually a sport of the Minnesota 90 , not a Golden Delicious/Haralson cross.
summary: This hardy Golden Delicious-style apple was developed by the University of Minnesota in the mid-1900s and ranks high for flavour and long storage.
identification: Medium to large, round conic and often irregular in shape. Green to golden-yellow colour, depending on level of ripeness when it was picked. The smooth skin is liberally speckled with small and large, star-shaped, russet lenticels. Sun exposure will cause some bronze blushing around the blossom end. The stem is slender and long, set in a deep and narrow cavity. The cavity is small and partly open, set in a deep and funnel-shaped basin. The apple bruises easily.
characteristics: Flesh is yellowish, crisp and tender. Juicy, sweet, very similar in flavour to the Golden Delicious, perhaps a bit more honeyed.
uses: Fresh eating, pies and sauce.
origins: A cross-pollination between Golden Delicious with Minnesota 90 carried out in 1935 at the University of Minnesota's Horticulture Research Center in Excelsior, Minnesota (U.S.A.) in an effort to develop a cold-hardy alternative to the Golden Delicious. It was selected as Minnesota 1595 in 1947 by Professor W. H. Alderman. Officially released in 1970.
cultivation: Moderately vigorous, open tree which starts to bear fruit when still young.
cold storage: Keeps up to three months in cold storage
vulnerabilities: Resistant to scab and mildew, susceptible to rust and very much so to fire blight.
harvest: Ripens early in the fourth period but the fruit has a tendency to drop before it is fully ripe.
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
hardiness: 4
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