An attractive, highly disease-resistant apple, ideal for organic growers.
Ginger Gold Apple Scionwood (Spring 2024)
One of the earliest yellow apples, sweet and crisp. Also known as Gingergold.
Ginger Gold is a vigorous, hardy tree, with wide crotch angles. It is susceptible to fireblight, mildew, and cedar-apple rust, but resistant to scab. Extremely productive, this tree needs to be thinned to maintain crop quality and annual production. It is also a partial tip bearer.
This is a greenish-yellow apple that bears a lovely, delicate blush on its sun-side. It is an early-season apple (early September in upstate New York), and one of the first yellow apples to ripen. While its flavor is mild, it is certainly more balanced than that of Golden Delicious. Crisp and sweet-tart, this apple is an irresistible herald of the coming season. Ginger Gold does not store well and it is best eaten fresh. It is a great salad apple, as the flesh does not oxidize after cutting.
Ginger Gold is famous as the apple that Hurricane Camille created in 1969. After Camille brought devastating floods to Nelson County, Virginia, the orchards of Clyde and Frances "Ginger" Harvey were badly washed out. In 1980, among the few surviving trees around the edge of a Winesap orchard, a tree was found that Clyde Harvey recognized as being different when it produced yellow rather than red fruit. (One very probable parent is Golden Delicious.) The variety was eventually named after Clyde Harvey's wife. In January 2007, the Virginia General Assembly proposed a bill designating the Ginger Gold apple as the official fruit of Virginia.
Volume Pricing
Quantity | Ginger Gold Apple Scion |
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1 | $12.40 |
2-5 | $7.40 |
6-10 | $6.40 |
11-99 | $5.40 |
100+ | $4.40 |
The Fruit
Fruit Type
Category: Apple
Subcategory:
Cold-Hardy, Hot-Climate
Fruit Uses & Storage
Uses: fresh eating, baking, sauce
Storage duration: less than one month (approximate, depending on storage conditions)
Fruit Appearance
Skin color: yellow
Flesh color: cream
Fruit Origins
Parentage: unknown
Origin: Virginia
Introduced in: 1982
Introduced by:
The Environment
Calendar & Geography
USDA zones: 5 - 8
Chill hours: 700
Ripening date: Sep 01 (approximate, in New York State) 14 days before McIntosh
Diseases & Pests
glossary
Apple Scab: Resistant
Cedar-Apple Rust: Very Susceptible
Fireblight: Susceptible
Powdery Mildew: Very Susceptible
Pollination
Pollination Factors
glossary
Bloom group: 4
Is it self-fertile? N
Is it fertile? Y
Ploidy: Diploid
Pollination Partners
This table shows the first few results from a full search for pollenizers of Ginger Gold Apple. Please see our Pollenizer Search to run other queries and read how the application uses various factors. Also read more about fruit tree pollination.
Tree | Currently in Stock |
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Virginia Crab Apple | 0 |
Florina Apple | 0 |
Porter's Perfection Apple | 0 |
Elstar Apple | 0 |
Rubinette Apple | 0 |
St. Edmund's Russet Apple | 0 |
Spitzenburg Esopus Apple | 0 |
Liberty Apple | 0 |
Mother Apple | 0 |
Binet Rouge Apple | 0 |
Freyberg Apple | 0 |
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