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["Dave Griffin" <griffingardens@earthlink.net>]

I don't spray at all. I lose a few to the carnivorous bugs but its not 
significant. No scab at all and no apple maggot yet.

Dave

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Dan Nave" <nave1@comcast.net>
To: "nafex mailing list at ibiblio" <nafex@lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 25, 2012 9:06 PM
Subject: Re: [nafex] Gold Rush in MN


> How much spraying do you have to do?
>
> Dan
>
> On 1/25/2012 1:10 PM, Dave Griffin wrote:
> > Gold Rush has been unexectedly successful for me in central MN, zone 4a.
> > Hardiness is not absolute with one tree dead but the other one
> > surviving -30F two winters of its 6 total years planted. It never really
> > ripens on the tree - when it has to be picked in November for cold it is
> > still very green and hard as a rock, but ripens to great flavor in 
> > storage.
> > I've got about 100 seedlings from crosses with 4 earlier and hardier 
> > apples
> > including Zestar and Goodland but won't see any fruit from them for a 
> > couple
> > of more years. Gold Rush is a very clean apple too. So you northerners 
> > don't
> > shy away from trying this one because it's not rated hardy and you can't 
> > eat
> > it off the tree, it's differences from other apples extend to the great
> > flavor, storage time and other fruit quality too.
> >
> > Dave
> >
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