Apple Flower Development. These clusters are formed the previous summer. For example by carefully looking at a flower you can predict what the fruit will look like as it develops.
In early May apple trees are covered in apple blossoms. The leaves start growing and as they fold back they are called mouse ears. Apples and other deciduous fruit trees pass through an annual series of growth stages beginning during bud dormancy and extending through fruit development.
21092017 Dormant apple buds begin to swell in the early spring.
This is the beginning of leaves. Flowers which produce Peach Apple and Persimmon type fruits. They are slow to develop taking two years. Image of process trees white - 146689452.