WALTERS GÄUGOLD ™ Nr. 7533
Plum, Prunus domestica
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.
Blossom
Blooming date
medium early, high blossom density
Fertility
partially self-fertile; cross-pollination is recommended
Pollinator
Katinka, JULIKA ™ HOH 8679 (S), FRANZI ™ WEI 1408 (S), Cacaks Schöne, MONI ™ WEI 5319 (S), Jojo (S), Haroma (S), JOFELA ™ HOH 7346 (S), RESI ™ WEI 301, WALTERS HERRENBERGER ™ Nr. 6410, Tophit Plus (S), TRUEBLUE ™ HOH 4528 (S), Presenta (S), Topend Plus (S), VRONI ™ WEI 5276
Fruit
Ripening time
medium late to late, 8.-9. plum week
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 base
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
Crop load
early setting, ideal to high, very regular ripening
Origin
Breeder, Place
Dr. Walter Hartmann, University Hohenheim, Germany
Intellectual property
Dr. Walter Hartmann, Germany
Parents
Jojo (S) x Fellenberg
Property rights
trademark protection in Germany