Exact conditions in the rooms are set according to the apple variety.

Pollenizers can also be supplied by putting drum bouquets of crab apples or a compatible apple variety in the orchard blocks.

For example most crabapple varieties are good pollenizers for any apple variety that blooms at the same time, and are often used in apple orchards for the purpose.

Thatchers was founded almost 120 years ago and now grows 458 apple varieties in its 500 acres of orchards.

The orchard has around 2,000 trees and more than 40 apple varieties.