Just like you sleep every night to store up energy, apple trees sleep all winter to store energy to make apples for the fall. Limbs are sawed off and clipped to allow maximum sunlight into the growing structure. Pruning allows the tree to produce larger, better colored, higher quality and more valuable fruit. Equipment repairs and maintenance occupies the days too cold or stormy to be outdoors, through the winter months. In the spring apple trees begin waking up.
Leaves start growing, reaching for the sun.
Fragrant, sweet-smelling white flower blossoms pop out. Honeybees love to visit the sweet-smelling blossoms, spreading pollen from flower to flower. When blossoms fall off the pollinated flowers, baby apples begin to grow in their place. Each blossom has to be pollinated in order for an apple to form. The apples keep growing all summer.