THE STUDY OF THE ADAPTABILITY OF TWO CHOKEBERRY VARIETIES IN THE DOBROGEAN AREA – PARTIAL RESULTS

The cultivation of fruit bushes in Romania has recently grown exponentially, which has led to the diversification of cultivated shrub species. If in the first part of this interest for shrubs sea buckthorn was by far the winner with the establishment of more than 3,000 ha nationally, followed by the blueberry crop with another 2,000 ha, aronia has become a crop that shows increased interest from farmers. At present, chokeberry cultivation amounts to over 500 ha at the national level. In the official catalog of varieties from Romania, we find a variety registered ”Melrom” maintainer being ICDP Pitesti, and in private nurseries we also find the variety ”Nero”, a variety brought to Romania for testing and acclimatization. In this paper, we observed the two varieties ”Melrom” and ”Nero”, varieties planted in the fall of 2023 in the experimental fields of SCDP Constanța.