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Prime Gold
type: Dessert, Juice
identification: Medium to large. Round tending to round conic. The skin is pale green, maturing to yellowish with a fairly heavy wax coat. A faint orange blush develops on the sun-exposed face. Pale lenticels can be seen faintly on the greenish background, less so when the skin has yellowed. The calyx is medium size and partly open, set in a medium deep basin. The stem is long and slender, set in a somewhat deep and funnel-shaped cavity.
characteristics: The flesh is yellowish, firm and crisp. Juicy and sweet, with a honeyed flavour.
uses: Dessert, baking and juice.
origins: Found during the 1965 harvest by B. Hoekman in Zillah, Washington (U.S.A.), growing from the below the graft union on some rootstock of a young Golden Delicious tree which had died during the previous winter. Nevertheless, Primegold is sometimes listed as a mutation of Golden Delicious .
cultivation: Vigorous. Partial tip bearer. On its own roots, it grows to about three quarters the size of a self-rooted Golden Delicious tree. Has a tendency to over-crop and must be thinned at fruit set to maintain size. Annual harvests.
cold storage: Up to three months. No shriveling during the normal storage period.
harvest: In the middle of the fifth period. Fruit tends to drop once ripe.
pollination group: F
pollination peak: 20
ploidism: Diploid. Self sterile.
cold storage weeks: 12
harvest period: 5
hardiness: 5
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