This study was carried out through 2019 and 2020 seasons to evaluate some soft date palm (Samany, Zaghloul and Barhee) grown in Aswan governorate, Egypt. Vegetative traits, yield components and fruit quality as well as numerical evaluation were investigated.
The obtained results indicated that Samany and Barhee date palm cultivars had the highest values of most studied vegetative traits compared to Zaghloul date palm cultivar. On the other hand, Zaghloul date palm gave the highest yield components followed by Barhee date palm, whereas Samany date palm gave the lowest tone. No significant differences were found among Barhee and Zaghloul date cultivars in yield components. Barhee cultivar had the highest of fruit quality followed by Samany cultivar, whereas, Zaghloul cultivar gave the lowest one with insignificant differences with Samany date cultivars.
As the numerical evaluation of date palm cultivar, it could be arranged in descending order as follows: Barhee (92.5), Zaghloul (85.6) and Samany (79.5 units).
These results revealed that Barhee and Zaghloul date palm are considered promising to obtain a high yield with good fruit quality compared to Samany date palm cultivar under Aswan conditions. In addition, preference of Barhee cultivar to the superiority of its price and demand for its export.