Backyard apple breeding

Apple: Dorsett Golden Apple

Shane Gadsby -

A chance seedling planted by Irene Dorset, known for it's even-sweet taste and crisp flesh and round plump shape.

  • Vigour: High
  • Precociousness: High
  • Resistances: Unknown
  • Size of fruit: Medium
  • Flowering: Early
  • Fruiting: Early
  • Cropping: Medium to high
  • Ploidy: Diploid (?)
  • Fruit colour: Green-gold with low levels of red blush
  • Flesh colour: White
  • Leaf colour: Green
  • Parentage: Golden Delicious* x Unknown
  • Descendants: Unknown
  • Biennialism: Uncommonly observed
  • Growth habit: Standard V
  • Self-fertile: Yes

Dorsett Golden Apple was first grown in New Providence, Bahamas. Gaining mainstream recognition when it was introduced to the United States in the early '60, becoming a mainstay for home growers across much of the southern United States due to its low chill requirement, and refreshing taste.

Seedlings of Dorsett Golden Apple typically show high levels of precociousness, flowering in as early as 2 years after sprouting, though more typically in their third year.

Parentage

There has been some speculation in regards to it real parentage, with not one, but two separate studies conducted throughout the 70's concluding that it was more likely a descendent of the Ein Shemer Apple (which strongly resembles the )

NOTE: I have yet to try this apple directly, having only purchased it in 2021, and so have relied on others for information related to this variety.
This entry will be updated as the tree grows and bears.