Grimes Golden

Malus domestica 'Grimes Golden'
Hybrid parentage	'unknown'
Cultivar	'Grimes Golden'
Origin	United States Wellsburg, Virginia 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 pick	When ripe enough to eat	Latest cold storage limit
In Northern states	Sept. 8 - Oct. 28	Nov. 1-10	Jan. 15
In Southern states	Aug. 23 - Sept. 18	Oct. 5-15	Dec. 15