Yesterday I posted a video showing the progress of our main southern apple orchard and the new apple orchard we just planted.
In the video, we said we planted 10 different apple trees and gave Randall White 10 more varieties.
I was wrong. When I went back and checked my order from Century Farm and Orchards, it originally had 16 trees. I gave 6 of them to Randall and kept 10.
Two of the ones we planted died, one from late blight and the other from a string trimmer accident. Seven of the remaining trees have labels and one does not.
And the one tree without a label is the one that has produced the most fruit this year.
So what tree is that?
I wrote Randall and asked him what kind of trees he had and he sent me back a list of six.
Then I started highlighting my old email order forms with screen caps.
The ones highlighted in green are the ones that have labels. Randall has the yellow one.
Two of the unlabeled trees are dead and one is overgrown, but there are Shell, Shockley, and Jake seedlings.
Shockley apples look like this.
And this is Jake’s seedling apple.
This is an apple with a shell.
I can’t say much about the fruit as it hasn’t ripened yet, but I feel like this tree looks like an apple with a shell on it. Let’s see how it looks as it ripens.
I forgot that the shell was included when I ordered!
The world becomes more interesting when labels are missing.
