MORPHOLOGICAL AND BIOCHEMICAL CHARACTERISTICS OF SEVENT CHERRY FRUITS CULTIVARS

Abstract

The research was carried out in the plantation of the S.R.L. ‘Agroparc Management’ company in 2025. The orchard was planted in the spring of 2015. As the object of research were the trees of ‘Sweet Early’, ‘Rocket’, Frisco’, ‘Grace Star’, ‘Big Star’, ‘Kordia’ (C), ‘Regina’ grafted on MaxMa rootstock. Planting distance 5.0 x 3.0 m. The fruit height, big and small diameters, and shape index ranged from 20.8 to 27.1 mm, 23.4 to 26.6 mm, 19.0 to 22.8 mm and 0.97 to 1.08, respectively. The average weight of a fruits, the percentage of flesh, stone and stem, ranged from 6.57 to 10.35 g, 90.0 to 93.9 %, 4.8 to 8.6 % and 1.1 to 1.9 %, respectively. The yield of the cultivars ranged from 3.52 to 7.84 t/ha. Flesh firmness ranged from 0.52 to 0.61 kg/cm², with SSC ranging from 14.7 to 18.6 %, AT from 0.40 to 0.83 % and vitamin C content ranged from 10.75 to 13.82 mg/100 g