New sweet cherry cultivars for Romanian orchads

Abstract

In the last ten years was been introduced into the orchards of Romania new autochthonous sweet cherry cultivars or from the foreign assortment. Research was conducted during 2014-2016 at three Romanian new obtained cultivars as ‘Andreias’, ‘Alexus’ and ‘Mihailis’ and two introduced sweet cherry cultivars as ‘Kordia’ (Czech Republic) and ‘Van’ (Canada). An other cultivar, ‘Boambe de Cotnari’ (Romania) was evaluated. ‘Boambe de Cotnari’ is an old cultivar very spread in Romania butstill demanded by producers. Some parameters related to phenological stages and fruit characteristics were determined. Sweet cherry cultivars taken into study registered fruit weight value as 7.72 g (as average 2014-2016) and soluble solids content as 14.53 Brix.