Fruit quality parameters of sweet cherry cultivars produced under rain protected plastic foil and general orchard conditions

Abstract

Due to global climate warming, frequency of negative weather effects (rainfall amounts, distribution, sortness) are increasing. Rainfall amounts and frequency has also great effect of sweet cherry fruit quality around fruit ripening. Determination of optimal technological basics (such as first class fruit quality and economic value) are an important task in dynamically growing sweet cherry production. This can be solved with introduction of a new intensive training system. One of the solutions can be rain protecting foil which can reduce fruit cracking and fruit rot. Without this option sweet cherry can not be grown in many countries. In this study, fruit quality parameters were compared from a 10 year old intensive (4 x 1m) sweet cherry orchard. The effect of rain protecting foil was tested in comparison with fruits from not covered tree