Your Goldrush flesh is whiter than mine Jesse. Looks really good.
I finally picked my Goldrush apples yesterday. I couldn’t wait anymore! These would have stored well in the refrigerator, but we decided to eat them right away! They were top notch.
A tiny bit of sooty blotch and flyspeck, but otherwise spotless. My wife’s pantyhose protected them well. Here they are “showing some leg.”
See the golden yellow cheek on top. Also note the tiny orange-red dots that form. That’s what you’re looking for!
Just wish I had more. Oh well; maybe next year…
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One of my oldest customers called me yesterday raving about his Goldrush apples- “best apples I ever tasted”!
They’d been bearing there a few years- a tree I planted and a William’s pride I half grafted over, but he has a picking party in very late Sept. and they had always been stripped. This year had such a bumper crop that the mob left him some.
His judgement comes with some nice apples around for comparison. He has about 40 big old apple trees planted in the 1930’s, half of which I grafted over to my favorite heirlooms and modern apples. There are another twenty well established trees from NYS fruit testing and my own nursery.
Ashmead’s Kernels to Honeycrisp through Zestar- out of 100 varieties in all, but he prefers Goldrush.
This year, anyway, but I never heard him so excited about an apple.
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At first I thought these were Golden Delicious, until I saw the tell-tale red flecks in the last photo. They really look different when grown in the pantyhose.
They look real tasty Matt!
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Another young GR tree in my orchard, this one is on a top worked volunteer seedling tree.
These will come in this weekend, they are great eating now, and I look forward to enjoying them through the winter. I can see how spurry this cultivar is, and this year’s crop load has certainly slowed down the growth of this tree, shoots are under 18".
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Love it! I really like the looks of your place up there too. The gently rolling mountain range in the background is freaking beautiful. Looks like the Appalachians. You are in Maine…right?
I think one time I read a bit on the town you live in or near…looked at photos etc. I think it was you anyway, maybe I remembering wrong. I think I could live up there and like it…especially in the summer.
My Goldrush has leaves for months after I harvest the fruit. I can hardly believe your trees out east have already lost their leaves. Maybe that’s a good part of the reason my trees are less biennial than others seem to be.
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Mine still has all it’s leaves and still will have them well into winter.
Here in southeastern NY apple trees have leaves- some trees only on outer third of scaffolds. Most of my mature bearing age apples still have plenty of leaves.
I don’t think there’s any point in keeping them on the tree after so many leaves are gone. At that point the sun exposure will only likely decrease their storability. Once they are yellow they are ripe anyway.
Leaves are starting to come off of the apple trees on Cape Cod. Just picked my gold rush they seemed to want to stay on maybe another week, but they mostly came off easily. I have to be less greedy next year two of my Goldrush went biennial on me this year.
My neighbor uphill from me has almost completely defoliated Goldrush apples. He uses organic methods only. The apples are still delicious.
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My tree still has leaves, but they don’t look in great condition. The only thing I sprayed on apples this year was one coat of surround. That, along with some bagging, seems to have produced some OK Goldrush.
Earlier this evening, I just setup a thermostat controlled plug to turn a freezer into a fridge. So now that I’ve got the space, I’ll probably go out and pick most of the Goldrush tomorrow.
Some of my Goldrush apples not as strong of a flavor this year.
Fabulous blush. Beautiful apples.
They look great!
Bob- How difficult is it to turn freezer into frig by your method? I’m shopping for a cheap but low energy frig to put in garage and keep apples.
It was really easy. We got the freezer when the owner was moving, so the only cost was the $38.99 for the controller and my labor in moving and cleaning it. I got a Inkbird Itc-308 from Amazon.
When I turned it on without the controller (as a normal freezer), I noticed that the temp was around 5 degrees F (very cold). I’m not sure if that means that when it comes on that it will freeze the stuff in the top area, which the cold air first hits. I’ll have to keep an eye on things.
I taped the sensor onto the side wall, 6" from the bottom of the fridge. When I turned it on, I watched it for a bit and it seems that the sensor reads a couple degrees lower than a wireless thermometer I put in there. So, I just adjusted it from 35 (which was producing 29-32) to 37 (34-37 so far). I think some of the Amazon reviews mention that the thermostat often needs initial calibration, so, it’s a good idea to have an independent device to confirm what the controller is reading.
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Thanks Bob. Did you first have to determine that the freezer does not draw more than 10 amps current? I see that’s a limit on what the controller can control.