Scientific Papers Series B Horticulture

The process of fruit forming was developed inoptimal conditions, for both one stem and twostems plants. Thus, it was noted that VeneiaF1 hybrid fructified on clusters similarly forboth cases. However, on the second stem, onclusters 1 and 2, the number of fruits wasslightly higher probably due to the optimizationof environmental conditions. For other hybrids,the differences observed were smaller. Thetotal number of fruits on the main stem wascontiguous for studied hybrids, but Veneia F1and Rhuen F1 produced 2-3 more fruits whenthey were pruned with two stems (Table 6).The second stem showed a high regularity offruits formation on each cluster and the totalnumber of fruits was conformable with the oneon the main stem (Table 7).Table 6. The synthesis of results regarding the average number of fruits formed on the main stemAverage number of fruits formed on clusterVariant1 2 3 4 5Total number of fruitsV 1 (Mt) – Veneia F1 one stem 3.3 3.4 4.8 5.2 5.2 21.9V 2 - Veneia F1 two stems 5.3 5.4 4.8 4.8 4.9 25.2V 3 - Rhuen F1 one stem 4.2 3.6 4.9 4.6 4.5 21.8V 4 – Rhuen F1 two stems 4.2 3.7 4.7 5.3 5.6 23.5V 5 – Fournaise F1 one stem 4.7 4.4 4.7 5.1 5.1 24.0V 6 – Fournaise F1 two stems 4.5 5.0 4.1 5.2 5.0 23.8Table 7. The synthesis of results regarding the average number of fruits formed on the second stemAverage number of fruits formed on clusterVariant1 2 3 4 5Total number of fruitsV 2 – Veneia F1 two stems 4.9 4.8 4.6 4.4 3.9 22.6V 4 – Rhuen F1 two stems 3.9 3.6 4.1 4.9 4.7 21.2V 6 – Fournaise F1 two stems 4.3 4.7 3.8 4.7 4.3 21.8Integrating the number of fruits formed onstems, it was ascertained that the second stemproduced lower figures, namely 2-3 less fruitthan the main stem, but overall, the totalnumber of fruits obtained was almost doublefor variants pruned with two stems.Table 8. The synthesis of results regarding the average number of fruits formed on plantAverage number of fruitsVariantMain stemSecond stemTotal number of fruitsV 1 (Mt) – Veneia F1 one stem 21.9 - 21.9V 2 – Veneia F1 two stems 25.2 22.6 47.8V 3 – Rhuen F1 one stem 21.8 - 21,.8V 4 – Rhuen F1 two stems 23.5 21.2 44.7V 5 – Fournaise F1 one stem 24.0 - 24.0V 6 - Fournaise F1 two stems 23.8 21.8 45.6The number of fruits was compassed between21,8 and 25,2 on main stem and 21,2 and 22,6on shoot stem.In what regards the average weight of fruits,there were no significant differences betweenfruits obtained on the main stem and the onesfrom the second stem. However, it wasobserved that fruits formed on the shoot stemwere slightly smaller than the ones from themain stem (Table 9).Pruning plants with two stems brings a roughlyyield doubling on plant level (Table 10). Thisproves to be a great advantage becauseconsidering other features studied, such as thenumber of fruits and their size, it is verycontiguous for both stems. The highest tomatoyield was obtained on Veneia F1 hybridpruned with two stems, 5,2 kg/pl, followed byFournaise F1 with 4,9 kg/pl and Rhuen F1 with4,7 kg/pl.67