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Similarly, other fruit trees have varying needs: Apple trees need between 800 and 1,100 chilling hours, and cherry trees demand the most, about 1,000 or more hours.

Fruit trees need a certain amount of "chilling hours" to produce a good spring and summer crop. The graphic above shows the average number of hours below 45 degrees across the state of Texas.