Silver Creek Nursery Ltd.

Potted Goldrush Apple

Available only for pick-up at nursery.

History: Goldrush was bred specifically for scab resistance as part of the collaborative PRI disease-resistant breeding program run by Purdue University, Rutgers University, and the University of Illinois. It was developed in the 1970s and released in 1994. This variety has a complex heritage of Golden Delicious mixed with a cross of several other varieties for their disease resistance.

Why We Grow It: This is arguably the best scab-resistant variety released from the PRI Breeding Program as far as flavour is concerned. The dense, crisp flesh of this yellow apple is full of sugars and flavour. It is distinctly spicy and tart at first but mellows the longer it is in storage. The fruit stores exceptionally well. This truly multi-purpose apple is also great for drying and, unusually for a modern variety, is good in hard cider.

    $80.00 $48.00
    Rootstock:
    Size:

    1 low in stock

    Fruit Traits:

    Recommended Use: Fresh eating, drying, cider, baking, cooking

    Fruit Size: Medium

    Storage: Keeps until May when refrigerated

    Harvest: October - Mid

    Plant Traits:

    Canadian Hardiness Zone: 4

    Soil Preferance: Sandy loam, loam, clay loam. Prefers average to moist conditions, avoid planting anywhere that floods for more than two weeks in the spring. Generally quite adaptable to different soil conditions.

    Flowering Time: Late

    Pollination Requirements: Requires a pollinator of a different apple variety that blooms around the same time

    Sun/Shade Requirements: Full sun (approx. 8-10 hours of sun daily)

    General Growth Habit: Moderately vigorous with an upright growth habit, tends to produce crops every other year but has heavy crops when it does, spur-bearing. Resistant to fireblight and scab but susceptible to cedar apple rust and powdery mildew. Can be harvested from mid to late October.

    Reminder: Potted plants are available for pick-up only!

    Potted plants are only available for pick-up at the nursery. They unfortunately cannot be shipped due to the size and weight of the pots.

    Most potted plants will fit into most vehicles. If you are ordering a 16gal potted plant, we would recommend bringing a larger vehicle (van, SUV, pickup truck) and having someone to help you unload it.

    You may want to lay down a tarp or other covering to keep dirt out of your car. If you are transporting the plants in the back of a pickup truck, we recommend laying them down and covering them with a tarp, bed cover, or other covering so they do not get windburn.

    Potted plants vary in size and age, but we typically pot berries and smaller seedlings in 1-3 gallon pots and larger grafted trees in 5-16 gallon pots. The size of our potted plants generally fall into the following ranges based on pot size:

    • 1gal pots - 1-3ft tall
    • 2 or 3gal pots - 1.5-3ft tall
    • 5gal pots - 3-7ft tall
    • 8gal pots - 4-7ft tall
    • 16gal pots - 6-8ft tall

    All sizes include the pots.

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