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RESPONSE OF LOCAL SOURS ORANGE TREES (CITRUS AURANTIUM L. ) TO SPARING WITH MAREN FERT ,ALAFADA AND HLETAB ON VEGETATIVE GROWTH, PHYSICAL AND CHEMICAL FRUITS CHARACTERS
Authors: Abbas Mohsin Salman Al-Hameedawi ; Zainab Rehman Jassim AL-Malikshah

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This study was carried out in a private orchard at AL- Abbasyia , Najaf Governorate during the growing of season 2015 on the local sours orange fruit . The trees were sprayed at 1/4, 1 / 10 and 1 / 11 / 2015 with three concentrations of Maren fert ,Alafada and Hletab ( 1 , 2 and 3 ) % for each other . The results indicated that spraying trees with treatments caused a significant increasing in the rate of leaf aria length of branches ,total chlorophyll , percentage of dry material , length, diameter , weight of fruit, percentage of juice , percentage of peel ,peel thickness , vitamin C Total soluble solids(T.S.S) , percentage of titratable acidity (TA) and percentage of T.S.S / TA .There was significant differences between these treatments .The treatments of concentration of Hletab 3 % gave the highest rate of vegetative and fruiting characteristics on the year of studied .