Establishment of Planting Period for Chinese Cabbage ( Brassica campestris var. pekinensis (Lour.) Olson) Early Crops in Open Field, in Transylvanian Tableland Specific Conditions

摘要

In the spring of 2010 was organized a research in the experimentalfield of Vegetable Growing Department, from Horticulture Facultyof University of Agricultural Sciences and Veterinary Medicine Cluj -Napoca. The main subject of this experiment was the cultivation ofChinese cabbage (Brassica campestris var. pekinensis (Lour.) Olson) inTransylvanian Tableland specific conditions.The results allowed establishing the optimum planting period for thisspecies, so the achieved production to be adequate from the point of viewof plants growth and development, the quality and quantity of obtainedyield, and obtaining a low bolting percentage.From the results can be concluded that to avoid the Chinese cabbagebolting and allow the head formation, the seeds have to be seeded in thesecond decade of March, and the 36 days old seedlings have to be plantedin the third decade of April.