Growing characteristics of apple cultivars in environmentally friendly growing systems

Abstract

Nowadays the condition of the good saleability of the fruit is the application of controlled environmentally friendly technologies. Success of the growing is basically influenced by the production value of the cultivars, and their flexibility to the different technologies. In our examinations the effect of the integrated and organic farming system has been evaluated on the growing characteristics of the apple cultivars. According to our results the trunk thickness of the trees both in the initial and both in the later bearing period is higher in the integratedproduction compared to the organic farming system. This differences most likely caused by the variance of the crop load.

Branching features of apple cultivars in integrated and organic production technology

“…Branches spaced with larger distances from each other in the organic growing system can develop more freely, thus the concurrency is more moderate among them, on the other hand the better illumination helps also their thickening. Of course, the reason of the higher branch thickness can be also the lower yields of the organic production, which influences the vegetative processes, as we have seen in the case of the trunk thickness values (Dremák et al, 2015).…”

“…In previous studies (Holb et al, 2012(Holb et al, , 2017Holb, 2000Holb, , 2007Holb, , 2008Holb and Scherm, 2008;Dremák et al, 2015Dremák et al, , 2016Dremák et al, , 2017, the effect of integrated and organic production on the trunk, central axis, branch thickness and fungal diseases was examined. The aim of our study was to show the number of the branches of the central leader in various height of the tree in integrated and organic production.…”

Effect of the environmentally friendly production systems on the vegetative characteristics of apple cultivars

“…In our recent studies (Dremák et al, 2015(Dremák et al, , 2016 effect of the integrated and organic production system on the thickness of the trunk and on the central axis was evaluated. In this paper effects of the two production systems on the brunch cross sectional area of the apple trees are evaluated.…”

Vegetative parameters of apple cultivars in integrated and organic production systems

“…In our previous work (Dremák et al, 2015) effect of the integrated and organic production system on the thickness of the trunk was evaluated. According to the results the trunk thickness of the trees both in the initial and both in the later bearing period is higher in the integrated production compared to the organic one.…”