Shady Apples is a Your Highness hybrid built from Apple Fritter and Kush Mints #11. The breeder's own description reverses the written order, listing Kush Mints × Apple Fritter, but both versions identify the same two parents. That pairing joins pastry-like apple sweetness with the cooler gas and mint associated with Kush Mints, creating a modern California combination whose name is as direct as its aromatic design.
Your Highness holds the breeding credit
Your Highness sells Shady Apples as its own indoor flower and describes the strain as part of its legacy-focused catalog. Independent breeder references also credit Your Highness when Shady Apples appears as a parent in later crosses. Fig Farms, for example, identifies Shady Apples as the Your Highness side of Shady Scotty. Together, those uses establish Your Highness as the breeder and the primary brand associated with the cultivar.
That distinction is important because a cultivar may later be grown, packaged, or co-branded by another company. A label carrying Crème Genetics can describe a particular commercial release without transferring original authorship. The stable history begins with Your Highness; the farm named on a specific jar identifies who produced that batch. Keeping those roles separate prevents a retail partnership from being mistaken for the creation of the genetics.
Two familiar parents with different jobs
Apple Fritter contributes the baked-fruit direction that makes the first half of the name immediately readable. Kush Mints, specifically the #11 selection named by Your Highness, provides the sharper mint, gas, and Kush-shaped depth. The breeder describes the result as gassy mint on the inhale followed by sweet apple pastry and cream on the exhale.
Your Highness classifies Shady Apples as a heavy-hitting hybrid and lists focused, uplifting, and sedative terms among the possible effects. Those labels are best read as the company's characterization, not as a guarantee for every person. The hybrid designation is the durable fact. Individual response can change with serving size, tolerance, and batch, while the apple, mint, cream, and gas combination offers the clearer basis for comparison.
A parent with a second life
Shady Apples did not stop with its first flower release. Its appearance in later breeding work shows that growers valued more than the finished jar; they saw traits worth carrying forward. When Fig Farms used it in Shady Scotty, the company highlighted its Apple Fritter ancestry and credited Your Highness. That downstream use gives Shady Apples a defined place in contemporary California breeding rather than leaving it as a one-season menu name.
Readers can place the cultivar among other modern hybrids through the strain library and use the brand directory to distinguish breeder from retailer. Shady Apples is best understood as Your Highness genetics, Apple Fritter crossed with Kush Mints #11, with any additional company name tied to the release in hand. The cross succeeds because each parent remains audible: pastry and orchard fruit on one side, mint and gas on the other.
The #11 parent keeps the cross specific
Kush Mints #11 is a selected expression, not a generic reference to every Kush Mints plant. Keeping that number prevents the parent from becoming vague as the cultivar travels. It also reflects how modern breeding actually works: a named line may contain many siblings, but a breeder chooses one because its structure, aroma, or vigor serves the next cross. Shady Apples carries that decision forward beside Apple Fritter's equally distinctive clone identity.