It’s time for some Farm Education!🍎🐝
Enjoy this clip from last spring of 4th generation grower, Kaitlyn Thornton, explaining cell division in apples and how the sun can affect the size, color and taste of your fruit.
We can’t wait for Mid-October when this crop of SugarBee® apples will be in stores and ready for you to enjoy!
Video Transcript:
“Hello everyone, it is another day in our SugarBee® orchards here! So this time of year we usually get a lot more sunny days but this spring for some reason we’ve seen a lot of cloudy days. When we have more sunny days it affects and increases what we call cell division. So after all the petals on the blossoms fall off for about four to five weeks we have cell division. For that four to five week period the cells in these little fruitlets start to split themselves and multiply exponentially. Once they hit that four to five week mark though that is how many cells that the apple has. From that point forward you’re gonna see a lot of cell expansion. So the nice sunny spring days in early spring during this four to five week period, that actually accelerates that cell division. And when it’s cool and overcast like this the apples are a little bit slower to divide those cells. But for now our apples are looking pretty happy so stay tuned!”
