Plum
Variety: WALTERS GÄUGOLD ™ Nr. 7533
Species: Plum, Prunus domestica
Origin
| Breeder, Place | Dr. Walter Hartmann, University Hohenheim, Germany |
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| Intellectual property | Dr. Walter Hartmann, Germany |
| Parents | Jojo (S) x Fellenberg |
| Property rights | trademark protection in Germany |
Blossom
| Blooming date | medium early, high blossom density |
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| Fertility | under examination |
| Pollinator | under examination |
Fruit
| Ripening time | medium late to late, 8.-9. plum week |
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| Scale, shape | medium large, 38-40 mm, oval to ovoid with limited suture, very smooth-skinned |
| Colour | very uniform steel-blue to dark blue coloured with visible lenticels on the skin, wax bloom |
| Fruit flesh | intense golden to amber coloured, firm with delicate consistency, at full maturity very juicy |
| Taste | at the first pick spicy-aromatic, when fully ripe excellent flavour with high brix values between 17-21 |
| Cracking sensitivity | low, after heavy rainfall at full maturity fruits tend to rupture at the stalk |
| Stone separability | with increasing maturity removing |
| Plum pox | high resistant, hypersensitive to plum pox virus |
| Storage | good |
Tree
| Vigour | medium strong, semi-upright to spreading, after the juvenile phase widely spread, harmonical habit, very well garned and branched, medium green and healthy leaves |
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| Crop load | early setting, ideal to high, very regular ripening |
Evaluation
This late-ripening, high-yielding plum variety is very attractive in shape and colour and also convinces with strikingly uniform fruit caliber.
Due to its very intense, long-lasting aroma, Walters Gäugold ™ is particularly suitable as a table fruit.
It’s resistance to the plum pox virus due to hypersensitivity is a another reason to recommend it for cultivation.