DATES OF BLOOM AND MATURITY OF SEVERAL APRICOT SELECTIONS FROM EUROPEAN BREEDING PROGRAMMES

In January 1993, a group of apricot selections from apricot breeding programmes carried out in France, Italy and Greece, were planted in the collection of the Departamento de Mejora y Patología Vegetal at Murcia, Spain.

In this study, the flowering and ripening dates for each selection during 1995 and 1996 were recorded.
Also, this last year, ripening dates were compared to those of two main Murcian cultivars within the medium-late season.

Full bloom of the selections ranged in 1995 from March 2^nd to 15^th and in 1996 from March 20^th to April 1^st. Ripening during 1995 went on from June 1^st to 29^th and in 1996 from June 5^th to July 7^th.

In 1996 the productive behaviour of the selections was evaluated from 1 to 5 as an average from 4 trees for each selection.
Most of them had an excellent production.

XI International Symposium on Apricot Culture

J. Egea, T. Berenguer, L. Burgos

Apricot, selection, bloom, maturity

https://doi.org/10.17660/ActaHortic.1999.488.21