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Grimes Golden

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Malus domestica 'Grimes Golden'
Hybrid parentage'unknown'
Cultivar'Grimes Golden'
OriginWellsburg, Virginia, United States, 1832

Grimes Golden is a cultivar of apple that originated in Wellsburg, Virginia (now West Virginia) in 1832 on the farm of Thomas Grimes. Flesh yellow, firm, fine-grained, juicy, aromatic, spicy, subacid.[1] Susceptible to bitter pit.[2] It could be a parent of the famous Golden Delicious apple,[3] and is known to be the maternal parent of 'Yellospur', and the pollen parent of 'Sinta'.[4]

Grimes Golden[5]
---When to pickWhen ripe enough to eatLatest cold storage limit
In Northern statesSept. 8 - Oct. 28Nov. 1-10Jan. 15
In Southern statesAug. 23 - Sept. 18Oct. 5-15Dec. 15

References

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  1. ↑ John Warder, American Pomology
  2. ↑ Korban, Genetic and Nutritional status in Bitter Pit-resistant and - susceptible Apple seedlings. J.Am. Soc. Hort. Sci. 109(3) 428–432, 1984.
  3. ↑ "Malus 'Grimes Golden'". Missouri Botanical Garden. Retrieved January 22, 2013.
  4. ↑ "Grimes Golden", National Fruit Collection, University of Reading and Brogdale Collections, retrieved 27 October 2015
  5. ↑ Stark Nurserie's, catalog, 1917