Golden Delicious Apple Tree Live Plant - Grafted Malus domestica in 3 Gallon Pot

About This Plant

Golden Delicious Apple Tree (Malus domestica ‘Golden Delicious’), a grafted fruit tree, grown for fresh eating, baking, sauces, and cooking. Deciduous, with white to pinkish-white bloom and golden yellow fruit when mature. Upright, branching growth habit. Grafted to maintain the Golden Delicious cultivar characteristics.

What You Will Receive

1 live Golden Delicious Apple Tree grafted Malus domestica ‘Golden Delicious’, shipped established in a 3-gallon nursery pot. Healthy, rooted fruit tree. Trees may arrive without flowers or fruit depending on season and maturity. Secure packaging for safe arrival.

Growing Information

• Common Name: Golden Delicious Apple
• Botanical Name: Malus domestica ‘Golden Delicious’
• Plant Type: Deciduous grafted fruit tree
• Growth Stage: Young grafted tree
• Sun Requirements: Full sun, ideally 6–8+ hours daily
• Soil: Fertile, well-draining loam with good organic matter
• Watering: Regular while establishing; avoid constantly soggy soil
• Fruit Color: Golden yellow when mature
• Fruit Uses: Fresh eating, baking, sauces, and cooking
• Bloom Color: White to pinkish-white
• Bloom Season: Spring
• Harvest Season: Typically fall, depending on climate
• Growth Habit: Upright, branching fruit tree
• Pollination: Fruit set benefits from a compatible apple variety flowering nearby
• Growth Rate: Moderate
• Dormancy: Deciduous; loses leaves in winter
• Container Friendly: Possible while young; long-term orchard planting or large container preferred

Care Tips

Plant in a sunny location with well-draining soil. Keep the graft union above soil level. Water consistently during establishment and mulch around the root zone, keeping mulch away from the trunk. For better fruit set, pair with a compatible apple cultivar nearby that blooms concurrently. Fruiting time and yield vary with maturity, rootstock, pollination, climate, pruning, and care.

Live Plant Notice

Live plants naturally vary in size, shape, foliage, and appearance. Depending on the season and shipping conditions, plants may arrive dormant, leafless, pruned, bare root, or show minor shipping stress such as wilting or leaf loss.

Listing photos may show a mature plant for reference. The plant you receive may be younger or smaller depending on the size and condition stated in this listing.

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