Please sign the logs with your initials or better yet group initials to help make the logs last longer. If you could bring along extra log sheets and replace them if necessary it would be a great help. Most of the containers are tied to tree’s with a rope to help keep them in place, please do not untie the caches from their intended place. Very few caches are on the ground but a few are. If you think the cache container is missing please send me an e-mail, I will watch it and if there are a few DNF’s I will replace it. You will want to wear water proof boots as the caches may at time be in a wet area. Tweezers or a leathermen tool with needle nose pliers will be helpful for extracting log sheets. After you find the cache please place the cache so it can’t be seen from the trail.
M.O.T. – Macomb Orchard Trail
Welcome to the Macomb Orchard Trail. These caches have been put out to show off the Macomb Orchard Trail. Many people might not know this trail even exists. I have named all the caches for different Apple varieties some of which are grown in the area. The trail runs from approximately 24 mile and Dequindre rd. to Richmond MI.
A modern disease-resistant apple variety related to Golden Delicious, with crisp hard flesh and a good sugar / acid balance.
Origins
- Species: Malus domestica
- Parentage: Seed parent is Golden Delicious
- Originates from: Purdue Research Farm, West Lafayette, Indiana, USA, United States
- Introduced: 1990s
- Developed by: Joint breeding programme of Indiana, Illinois, and New Jersey Agricultural Experiment Stations.
- Orange Pippin Cultivar ID: 155700
Identification
- Fruit colour: Yellow / Gold
Using
- Uses: Eat fresh
- Uses: Cooking
- Uses: Juice
- Uses: Hard cider
- Flavour quality: Very good
- Flavour style: Sweeter
- Harvest period: Very-Late season
- Use / keeping: 3 months or more
Growing
- Cropping: Heavy
- Flowering period: Mid-Late season
- Flowering group: 4
- Fertility: Self-sterile
- Ploidy: Diploid
- Vigour: Slightly small
- Bearing regularity: Biennial tendency
- Precocity: Precocious
- Fruit bearing: Spur-bearer
Disease resistance
- Scab - Very resistant
- Mildew - Very resistant
- Fireblight - Some resistance
- Cedar apple rust - Some susceptibility
References and further reading about this variety
- Cedar-Apple Rust
Author: Stephen Vann, University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture (FSA7538)
Rated as highly susceptible - control always needed where CAR is prevalent.