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Golden Delicious Apple
A variety of apple
How to sow golden delicious apple: Transplant bare-root plant
Sun requirement for golden delicious apple: Plant in Full Sun
Golden Delicious apples are a milder flavored apple cultivar with thin yellow skin and crispy, sweet, pale white flesh. They can be eaten fresh or baked. Blossoms are white or pink. Trees have a chilling requirement of 600-700 hours. Golden Delicious apples are self-pollinating, but can benefit from nearby trees with the same bloom period, and are great pollinators for apple trees that don't self-pollinate. Apples are propagated through grafting because seeds do not breed true. Semi-dwarf and dwarf sizes are available. Depending on the size chosen, the tree will bear fruit within 2-5 years of planting.
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Growing golden delicious apples
Perennial
living more than two yearsHeight
450cmSpread
450cmRow Spacing
450cmGrown for
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- maco food forest · Wheaton-Glenmont, MD
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Ecological requirements
Data from the FAO EcoCrop database for Malus domestica Borkh.
| Family / Taxonomy | Magnoliopsida Rosidae Rosales Rosaceae |
|---|---|
| Optimal temperature | 14 - 27 °C |
| Absolute temperature | 8 - 33 °C |
| Killing temperature | growth: -2 °C, rest: -30 °C |
| Optimal rainfall | 700 - 2500 mm/year |
| Absolute rainfall | 500 - 3200 mm/year |
| Optimal soil pH | 6.0 - 7.0 |
| Absolute soil pH | 4.5 - 8.0 |
| Crop cycle | 180 - 320 days |
| Max altitude | 1800 m |
| Life form | tree |
| Life span | perennial |
| Habit | erect |
| Optimal soil depth | deep (>>150 cm) |
| Optimal soil texture | medium, light |
| Optimal soil fertility | high |
| Optimal soil drainage | well (dry spells) |
| Optimal soil salinity | low (<4 dS/m) |
| Photoperiod | short day (<12 hours), neutral day (12-14 hours), long day (>14 hours) |
| Optimal light | very bright to clear skies |
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