What is the origin of profit?

If I own an Apple tree, I own the Apples without purchase.
The price I pay is exactly the costs of production and profit does not exist.
Even if I hire others and do none of the work myself, those wages are a cost of production, and I cannot pay profit because I do not buy the Apples.
This could be also be done as a group owning an orchard.
If the co-owners are consumers who agree to accept the product itself as the return-on-investment, then profit does not flow, and yet these special investors are satisfied because the avoided paying the profit they would have paid if they had bought Apples in the market.
This seems to show the origin of profit is the consumer’s lack of ownership in the Means of Production along with our misunderstanding of the purpose of that ownership.