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.
An old apple variety from Denmark which remains very popular in both Europe and North America on account of its high quality flavor.
Origins
- Species: Malus domestica
- Parentage: Unknown
- Originates from: Denmark
- Introduced: 1797 but much older
- Orange Pippin Cultivar ID: 110700
Identification
- Fruit colour: Red / Green
- Flesh colour: White to Cream, pale yellow
- Flesh colour: Yellow to Very Yellow
- Fruit size: Variable
- Fruit size: Medium
- Bultitude apple group: 4. Flushed / striped, smooth, dessert / dual-purpose
Using
- Uses: Eat fresh
- Uses: Cooking
- Cooking result: Keeps shape
- Flavour quality: Very good
- Flavour style: Sweet/Sharp
- Harvest period: Mid season
- Use / keeping: 2-3 weeks
Growing
- Flowering period: Early season
- Flowering group: 1
- Fertility: Self-sterile
- Ploidy: Triploid
- Pollinating others: Poor
- Vigour: Large
- Bearing regularity: Biennial tendency
- Gardening skill: Some skill needed
- Precocity: Slow to start bearing
- General disease resistance: Poor
- Period of origin: 1750 - 1799
Climate
- Climate suitability: Temperate climates
- Climate suitability: Tolerates cold winters
- Chilling: Low-chill A borderline case - only needs about 700 hours
Disease resistance
- Cedar apple rust - Very resistant
- Canker - Some susceptibility
- Scab - Some susceptibility
- Mildew - Some susceptibility
- Fireblight - Very susceptible
Pests
- Woolly aphid - Some susceptibility
References and further reading about this variety
- Cedar-Apple Rust
Author: Stephen Vann, University of Arkansas, Division of Agriculture (FSA7538)
Rated as very resistant - no control needed against CAR.