GoldRush

October 28, 2025

By Rebecca Magron • October 31, 2025

Location	Variety	Fruit Diameter (in)	Soluble Solids (% Sugar)	Pressure (lbs)	Starch Rating	Percentage of Red in Surface Color	Tasting Notes	Comments
*Optimum*:			12-14% SSC	13-15 lbs	*6-7*
Califon	Gold Rush	3.2	16	22.3	3	–	Flavorful and Juicy	Almost Ready
Oldwick	Gold Rush	3.0	16.7	23	4.3	–	Sweet and Juicy	Ready
Milford	Gold Rush	3.1	13.4	17.9	4	–	Flavorful and Juicy	Ready
Milford	Granny Smith	3.2	12.5	17.1	5.8	–	Tart and Juicy	Ready
Milford	Pink Lady	3.0	13.3	18.5	5.5	70	Juicy and Sweet	Almost Ready

By Rebecca Magron • October 28, 2025

Location	Variety	Fruit Diameter (in)	Soluble Solids (% Sugar)	Pressure (lbs)	Starch Rating	Percentage of Red in Surface Color	Tasting Notes	Comments
*Optimum*:			12-14% SSC	13-15 lbs	*6-7*
Blairstown	Stayman	3.1	13.9	17.7	2.3	85	Juicy, sweet, flavorful	Not Ready
Califon	Fuji	3.4	15.4	20.8	4.0	30	Sweet	Almost Ready
Califon	Goldrush	3.0	14.2	20.8	2.4	–	Juicy, flavorful, starch	Not Ready
Califon	Granny Smith	3.0	13.7	16.3	4.8	–	Tart and starch	Almost Ready
Califon	Pink Lady	2.9	13.9	21.5	2.8	70	Sweet and starch	Not Ready
Oldwick	Goldrush	3.1	14.7	20.1	3.0	–	Sweet and starch	Not Ready
Oldwick	Granny Smith	3.1	11.7	16.6	2.9	–	Tart and juicy	Not Ready
Oldwick	Pink Lady	2.8	14.1	20.8	5.0	80	Sweet and juicy	Ready this week
Princeton	Granny Smith	2.9	12.1	17.8	4.5	–	Very tart, and juicy	Almost Ready
Princeton	Stayman Winesap 1	3.2	14.3	16.9	4.3	85	Juicy, sweet, flavorful	Not Ready
Princeton	Stayman Winesap 2	3.0	12.9	16.3	3	90	Crisp and juicy	Not Ready

By Rebecca Magron • October 21, 2025

Location	Variety	Fruit Diameter (in)	Soluble Solids (% Sugar)	Pressure (lbs)	Starch Rating	Percentage of Red in Surface Color	Tasting Notes	Comments
*Optimum*:			12-14% SSC	13-15 lbs	*6-7*
Blairstown	Rome	2.8	13.8	22.9	5	100	Floral, dense	Almost Ready
Blairstown	Stayman Winesap	3.1	12.5	17.5	1.6	75	Dense and starch	Not Ready
Hackettstown	Acey Mac	2.8	12.4	15.8	5.2	90	Sweet	Almost Ready
Hackettstown	Evercrisp	3	14.9	22.2	2.8	90	Hard, starch, sweet	Not Ready
Hackettstown	Snap Stayman	3	12.1	21.9	1.8	95	Juicy and starch	Not Ready
Chester	Breaburn	3	10.2	18.2	5	85	Dense, tart, starch	Not Ready
Chester	Pink Lady	2.8	11.7	19.1	3.2	75	Crisp, juicy, sweet	Not Ready
Califon	Breaburn	3	11.3	18.7	3.8	85	Dense, crisp, starch	Not Ready
Califon	Fuji	3.4	14.8	16.8	5.8	80	Crisp, juicy, sweet	Ready
Califon	Winesap	3.4	12.2	16.2	1.8	90	Tart, crisp, juicy, starch	Not Ready
Milford	Goldrush	3.2	11.7	18.8	3	–	Starch, tart, crisp	Not Ready
Milford	Granny Smith	3.5	10.3	15.9	3.2	–	Tart, crisp, juicy	Not Ready
Milford	Granny Smith	3.1	12.5	16.3	4.3	–	Tart, crisp, juicy	Not Ready
Milford	Pink Lady	2.8	11.5	18.9	4.3	40	Flavorful, starch	Not Ready
East Brunswick	Evercrisp	3.3	12.5	14.5	5.7	50	Crisp, juicy, sweet	Ready
Princeton	Granny Smith	2.9	11.9	17.8	3.8	–	Juicy and tart	Not Ready
Princeton	Stayman Winesap	2.9	13.8	19.2	1.8	80	Dense, starch	Not Ready
Princeton	Stayman Winesap	2.8	12.2	18.5	2	85	Crisp and juicy, flavorful	Not Ready

By Rebecca Magron • October 25, 2024

Location	Variety	Fruit Diameter (in)	Soluble Solids (% Sugar)	Pressure (lbs)	Starch Rating	Percentage of Red in Surface Color	Tasting Notes	Comments
*Optimum*:			12-14% SSC	13-15 lbs	*6-7*
Milford	Goldrush	3.5″	13.9%	18.6	3.5	n/a	Crisp, dense, starch	Not Ready
Milford	Pink Lady	2.9″	12.1%	19.0	4.8	50%	Crisp, flavor developing	Ready for spot pick
Princeton	Granny Smith	3.3″	12.1%	16.0	4.6	n/a	Crisp, tart, starch	Almost Ready
Princeton	Pink Lady	2.8″	13.1%	20.1	4.5	50%	Crisp, tart, starch	Not Ready
Princeton	Staymen Winesap	3.3″	16.1%	18.1	4.1	90%	Juicy, Sweet, Flavorful	Ready

By Rebecca Magron • October 20, 2024

Location	Variety	Fruit Diameter (in)	Soluble Solids (% Sugar)	Pressure (lbs)	Starch Rating	Percentage of Red in Surface Color	Tasting Notes	Comments
Blairstown	Winesap	3.0″	11.4%	16.9	2.8	80%	Sweet, flavor developing	Not Ready
Hackettstown	Evercrisp	3.5″	15.0%	22.3	3.2	90%	Crisp, sweet juicy	Ready
Hackettstown	Pink Lady	2.7″	13.7%	23.6	1.7	50%	Crisp, dense, starch, tart	Not Ready
Hackettstown	Stayman Snap	3.0″	13.8%	20.2	3.0	100%	Crisp, sweet	Not Ready
Hackettstown	Suncrisp	3.4″	17.2%	17.5	4.8	30%	Sweet, flavorful	Ready for Spot Pick
Milford	Goldrush	3.4″	12.8%	18.2	3.3	n/a	Starch, crisp	Not Ready
Milford	Granny Smith	2.1″	11.9%	16.7	3.7	n/a	Crisp, tart starchy	Not Ready
Milford	Pink Lady	3.2″	13.0	20.6	3.2	40%	Crisp, dense, starch, tart	Not Ready
Princeton	Granny Smith	3.4″	11.9%	17.0	3.8	n/a	Starch, dense, crisp, tart	Not Ready
Princeton	Pink Lady	2.8″	12.9%	21.3	4.3	70%	Tart, Crisp, starch	Not Ready
Princeton	Stayman Winesap	3.2″	14.1%	17.9	3.2	95%	Crisp, juicy, starchy	Not Ready

By Rebecca Magron • October 15, 2024

Location	Variety	Fruit Diameter (in)	Soluble Solids (% Sugar)	Pressure (lbs)	Starch Rating	Percentage of Red in Surface Color	Tasting Notes	Comments
Blairstown	Golden Delicious	2.8″	17.3%	15.1	6.4	N/A%	Sweet, juicy, crisp	Ready
Blairstown	Stayman Winesap	3.0″	11.4%	16.1	2.2	80%	Sweet, juicy, crisp	Ready
Hackettstown	Evercrisp	3.6″	15.4%	22.5	2.8	80%	Dense, starchy, tart	Not Ready
Hackettstown	Ida Red	2.8″	13.3%	14.3	6.8	100%	Sweet	Ready
Hackettstown	Stayman Snap	2.9″	12.3%	19.6	2.3	90%	Crisp, sweet, starchy	Not Ready
Long Valley	Evercrisp	2.9″	15.8%	18.2	5.5	70%	Juicy, crisp	Ready
Long Valley	Suncrisp	3.7″	12.4%	19.0	4.2	30%	Crisp, flavorful	Ready for Spot Pick
Pittstown	Ludacrisp	2.8″	9.5%	16.1	6.5	90%	Sweet, juicy	Ready
Pittstown	Pink Lady	2.7″	12.5%	18.9	4.7	90%	Tart, slight starch	Not Ready
Milford	Goldrush	3.2″	12.2%	18.8	2.7	n/a	Juicy	Not Ready
Milford	Granny Smith	3.3″	13.0%	16.6	3.0	n/a	Dense, starchy	Not Ready
Milford	Mutsu	3.4″	13.4	16.5	3.7	n/a	Sweet, crisp	Ready for spot pick
Milford	Winesap	3.3″	13.1%	17.1	3.2	80%	Starchy, sweet, crisp	Not Ready
Princeton	Cameo	3.4″	15.3%	14.5	6.7	60%	Sweet	Ready
Princeton	Granny Smith	3.1″	11.8%	16.6	3.0	n/a	Starch, crisp, tart	Not Ready
Princeton	Pink Lady	2.9″	12.2%	22.0	2.2	40%	Tart, dense	Not Ready
Princeton	Stayman Winesap	3.6″	12.8%	17.7	2.0	70%	Crisp, tart, dense, starchy	Not Ready

By Megan Muehlbauer • November 8, 2021

Location	Variety	Fruit Diameter (in)	Soluble Solids (% Sugar)	Pressure (lbs)	Starch Rating	Percentage of Red in Surface Color	Tasting Notes	Comments
Hackettstown	Granny Smith	3.5″	11%	13.1	4.8	20%	Tart with some sweetness	Nearly Ready to Pick
Pittstown	GoldRush	3.3″	13.8%	15.3	4	10%	Crisp, Tart and Sweet	Needs just a few more days.
Princeton	Stayman-Winesap	3.4″	12%	13.5	5	70%	Crisp Sweet and Balanced	Nearly ready to pick.
Princeton	Granny Smith (Older Trees)	2.6″	10.8%	12.1	5.5	10%	Crisp, Tart and Refreshing	Ready to pick
Princeton	Granny Smith (Younger Trees)	3″	9.4%	12.1	6	5%	Crisp Tart sweet and refreshing	Ready to pick
Princeton	Pink Lady (Cripps Pink)	2.8″	12%	14.6	5	40%	Crisp, sweet, tart and refreshing	Nearly ready to pick

By Megan Muehlbauer • October 31, 2021