A wise person on this forum posted some good advice earlier. Eat your other apples and save the Goldrush for last. I was a dummy and shared most of my Goldrush with others and now I’m down to two in my refrigerator. This season I plan to get my strategy in order.
Bill,
You beat me. I have only one GR left. The good news for me is that I’ve seen lot of fruit buds on this 4 years old tree.
My two trees of GR are still young so they won’t have many fruit this year. The grafts I put on my pear tree is loaded with fruit buds. Hope we both have a good season.
I moved one of my GRs so that one won’t produce. My other one went biennial so this year I’m in for a nice amount on it. My Crunch a bunch for some reason died off almost down to its graft, but luckily grew back. Gonna be three or four years before I get a taste.
I’m always disappointed if I save my GRs too long, they lose that acid taste I like from them.
Apple varieties still remaining: Idared, Stayman, Baldwin, and Briggs Auburn. Mostly they are only fit for applesauce and baking, but, not being picky, I’m still eating some of them out of hand.
Goldrush continues to rise in quality even when picked entirely to early. Last year about mid August several of my goldrush started dropping early so I picked some of them off a tree that was falling. I bagged these and put them into the refrigerator and slowly ate them through the winter months. Picking this early I wasn’t sure what to expect. After a few months they started to sweeten up and were decent. They continued to improve the longer I waited and finally about a week ago we finished off the last two which were small in size. The last ones had mellowed out and tasted somewhat like a good yellow delicious but with more flavor. My trees are still young and I left more fruit than I should have which is what I think caused the early drops.