Fruit is basically made up of water and sugar. It takes an estimated 300 pounds of water to produce one pound of fruit. Dr. Dana Faubion, Washington State University (WSU) Cooperative Extension agent in Yakima, explained that the tree uses water, along with light energy from the sun and carbon dioxide from the atmosphere (which is absorbed through the leaf stomates) to make sugars. The process is called photosynthesis. Morning light prompts the tree to open its stomates so that carbon dioxide can enter. There are about 50,000 stomates on the underside of a peach leaf and three times that […]