Influence of five rootstocks on growth and development of two apple varieties in the nursery

Abstract

Investigations were conducted in 2008-2009 in Nursery Fruit Company „Codru-ST” Ltd., which is located in the centre of Moldova. As objects of research were used two apple varieties (Idared and Golden Reinders) and were bench-grafted on five rootstocks (M 9, 62-396, M 26, M 7 and MM 106). Distance of planting was 90x35 cm. In the results of the researches made it was established that in the first and second fields of the fruit nursery the main indicators of apple tree growth manifest significant increases in function of increase of rootstocks’ vigor of growth that were used in the process of grafting and the evidence obtained corresponds to the current standard of the Republic of Moldova.