Golden Delicious vs Gibson Golden

[krismoriah]

@Robert

I’d be interested to know if the GD trees I have are the originals or not. Starks bought the original tree, so I assume theirs is the real one. My trees do not produce any or much russet. Is that the sign of the original?

GD does not get the respect it deserves because it’s old, but IMO it’s still one of the best out there.

Tough question.

If you follow Adams County Nursery description- then the Gibson is the most widely planted apples in the world.

Golden Delicious (Gibson Cltv.) - Adams County Nursery, Inc.

Grandpas orchard (catalog not available right now)… says that they sell the Original Strain Mullins which is less russet resistant.

An internet search will say that GD is highly susceptible to russet from various sources over many years.

Does Stark still sell the original (Mullins) strain? Or when did they stop…then start selling Gibson?

A member on here stated that the trees that they received from Stark Bros said (Gibson).

Hawkeyes and Yellow Delicious

It is a good apple all in all. I mainly got the Golden Delicious from Stark Bros to use as a pollinator for my other apple trees. The label on the Stark Brothers tree label has a different Golden Delicious strain name on it, I think like " Gibson" or something like that NOT the " Mullins" variety. Even though Stark Brothers bought the Mullins variety they have put out other versions of it to basically eliminate the russet part of the apple. I prefer the original russet version. I still have the…

So unless someone on here has the original Mullins strain from the very few sources of it… then likely those stating that they have the ‘real’ Golden Delicious are actually growing Gibson/Smoothee