As the April weather approaches the dormant buds start to become alive. The first stage of their development is silver tip the bud scales begin to separate and they show a light grey tissue.
The silver tip gives way to a green tip, followed by the leaves of the bud which are there to protect the fruit bud. as the buds continue to mature the leaves burst and the buds are pushed out into a tight cluster of four to six stems soon to be flowers. During the beginning part of May the buds blossom into a beautiful pinkish white flower.
By this point We have already brought in bees to help pollinate all those blossoms. On our farm we bring in 72 hives each with 80,000 bees, thats about 5,760,000 bees buzzing around collecting pollen.
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