With this master's thesis, we focused on the impact of crop load on the quality of the apple cultivar 'Bonita'. We monitored various parameters of fruit quality such as fruit size, weight and firmness, fruit maturation by DA-value, soluble dry matter content, starch content, percentage of blush. We also monitored the content of sugars, organic acids, and total phenols in the fruit. We monitored the crop load in two orchards of the 'Bonita' variety, which are in the first and second growing season. The optimal crop load weight was given as the number of fruits per square centimetre of trunk cross-section. In the orchard of the first growing season, crop load was set with 2 and 4 fruits/cm2 of trunk cross-section. In the orchard of the third growing season, the crop load was 3, 6 and 9 fruits/cm2 of trunk section. Crop loads set in this research in both orchards were not large enough to get to the point where the external and internal quality of the crop deteriorated. The largest crop load, with 9 fruits/cm2 of trunk cross-section, had the lowest values for some parameters, but still not enough to show statistical differences between treatments. In further research, it would be necessary to test even greater crop load on the 'Bonita' variety and monitor them in a full-yielding orchard.
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