Aurora Golden Gala is a cultivar of apple selected from a cross between the apples 'Splendour' and 'Gala' made at the Pacific Agri-Food Research Centre (PARC), Summerland, BC [1]. It was named in 2003 [2] in a nationwide "Name the Apple" contest. Aurora Golden Gala is a yellow dessert type apple, it harvests mid-season and has exceptional eating qualities [3]. Fruit is medium in size, is very crisp, juicy, aromatic, sweet, and it stores very well.
Aurora Golden Gala is picked at 4-5 on the Cornell general starch chart, and once the over colour has broken from green to yellow, (at least #4 on the Aurora Golden Gala Colour chart). This variety is very precocious and requires a lot of grower care, most especially winter spur pruning to bring down the number of fruiting sites to a number and spacing reasonable to the trees size and age. A good fruit thinning regime is also required as almost all flowers tend to set fruit, thinning to singles within the first 4 weeks of bloom should result in peaking on at least box size 80 fruit, considering all other good horticultural practices are followed. Trees that are over cropped can result in fruit that is green and hard to pick and handle without bruising.
Currently Aurora Golden Gala is only available in Canada and the United States.
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