Dalia (D-27) – Gideon seed nuts
The variety
Gideon came out of a 1972 planting in Carroll County, Ohio, where Greg Miller selected it — along with Amy and Peach — from seedlings his father had raised. It has become one of the six standard mothers Miller recommends to anyone establishing a seedling orchard.
The nuts are medium sized, twelve to eighteen grams, and unusually uniform and attractive. The tree is cold hardy, drought tolerant, and a consistent bearer.
What sold us on it is a single figure from a Tennessee trial. In 2011, the worst year that orchard recorded for both size and yield, one Gideon tree produced 7.45 kilograms of nuts — the heaviest crop of any tree in the study. The next best was a Colossal at just over half that. Gideon is never the biggest nut on the table and never the smallest, and in a hard season it is still standing there with a crop. That is worth a great deal on a working farm.
Dalia in 2026
2026 observations coming after harvest.
The tree
Dalia has a typical orchard form canopy, has shown tremendous growth since planting in 2023 and is sporting a modest crop of very large burs for 2026.
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