Published in Scientific Papers. Series B, Horticulture, Vol. LXV, Issue 1
Written by Ion NEGRU
The experimental plot is placed in fruit-growing orchard of 'Agroparc Management’ Ltd., during the 2020 year. The object of the research was the trees of the apricot varieties of 'Wonder Cot’, 'Spring Blush’, 'Magic Cot’, 'Lilly Cot’, 'Pinkcot’, 'Perle Cot’, 'Orange Red’, 'Sweet Cot’, 'Big Red’, 'Kyoto’, 'Faralia’ and 'Farbaly’, grafted on the 'Mirobalan 29C’ rootstock. Planting distance was 5.0 x 3.0 m. The planting of apricot trees was carried out in spring of 2015. During the researches was studied the period of beginning of flowering and the ripening of fruit harvesting phases, the period between these two phases on different varieties of apricots, morphological parameters of fruits and kernels, shape index and redistribution of fruits in various quality of classes. It has been established that the biological particularities of the variety influence on the period of beginning of the flowering and the ripening of the apricot fruits, the period between these two phases, the morphological parameters, the shape index and the redistribution of the fruits in different quality classes.
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