Shady Apples is a Los Angeles collaboration between Your Highness Genetics LA and Crème Genetics: Apple Fritter crossed with Kush Mints #11. It runs a two-part arc — loud gassy mint on the inhale, sweet apple pastry on the exhale — and lands focused and uplifting before the back end gets heavy.
Where It Comes From
Shady Apples is a collab, not a solo release. Both houses are credited on it, and it surfaces at retail the way co-branded drops usually do: Crème Genetics' brand page carrying the flower, Your Highness Genetics LA named on the product itself.
It ships as two numbered phenotypes rather than one fixed cut — Shady Apples #3 and Shady Apples #5, both in 3.5g. That matters more than it sounds. When a collab releases numbered phenos, the jar in your hand is one selection out of a hunt, and #3 and #5 will not read identically.
This drop moved through licensed shelves rather than a seed catalog, so the pheno number on the label is the closest thing to a batch identity you get.
The Cross
The cross is Apple Fritter x Kush Mints #11. Your Highness writes it the other way round — Kush Mints x Apple Fritter — same pairing, order flipped.
Apple Fritter is associated with Lumpy's Flowers and commonly traced to Sour Apple x Animal Cookies: baked apple, dough, earth, gas. Kush Mints comes out of Seed Junky's Bubba Kush x Animal Mints work — mint, pine, cookie dough, kush and heavy resin. The #11 is a selected Kush Mints phenotype, not a separate strain.
Roll the family tree back further and the pool takes in Bubba Kush, Wedding Cake, Animal Cookies, Sour Diesel and Cinderella 99. Read that as several generations of ancestry rather than a direct-parent claim — the direct parents are the two named above.
Humulene leads the dominant terpenes here, ahead of limonene and pinene. That ordering is the tell: humulene is the hoppy, dry, herbal end of the spectrum rather than a sugar profile, which is why the mint reads cool instead of candied. Indoor flower comes sticky and frosty, and the balance shifts between #3 and #5 and between runs.
What It Left Behind
The real footprint is commercial: a co-branded release between two Los Angeles genetics houses, shipped as numbered phenotypes onto licensed shelves. That is a genuine position in the collab-driven end of the California market, and it is what the name is actually built on.
The High Rise Take
Shady Apples runs mint and gas into apple pastry, with humulene up front keeping it dry rather than sweet. Compare #3 against #5 before you decide you know it — and if the mint side wins, Kush Mints is the next stop.