Growth and Productivity of Sweet Cherry Varieties on Hungarian Clonal Prunus mahaleb (L.) Rootstocks

Due to climate changes, drought- and lime-tolerant Prunus mahaleb rootstock may gain importance. Among the Mahaleb rootstocks hybrids, there are standard moderate-vigorous types, but their intensive testing in orchards is still needed. Our paper reports on SL 64, Bogdány, Magyar, SM 11/4 clonal Mahalebs, hybrid MaxMa 14. ‘Carmen’, ‘Vera’, ‘Paulus’, ‘Rita’ sweet cherry trees were trained above principles of Hungarian Cherry Spindle at a spacing 1.6 × 5 m. Rootstocks proved be vigorous, while Magyar 14, moderately about 80%. 14 produced high cumulative yields without significant differences, ‘Paulus’ most productive Bogdány rootstock. ‘Carmen’ rootstock, ‘Vera’ Maxma more precocious than 64. Contrary 64 both resulted abundant flat branching good fruit size. conclusion that fit well orchard system with 1250 tree/ha density.