Improving quality of seedless Rawa pomegranate fruits by using bagging and spraying with calcium

A study was in the district of Rawa, which is located 224 km away from the city Ramadi, on the pomegranate trees of the seedless Rawa cv. The study the effect of fruit bagging and calcium spray in some qualitative of fruits. Two factors were studied during the research: the factor involved using different types of bags to cover the fruits, (uncovered control, double-layer muslin cloths, saran, and white bags). The second factor included calcium spraying at concentrations of0, 1, and 2 g per liter. The results indicated that fruit bagging treatments a significant effect on all studied characteristics. Saran bagging to achieving the best results for characteristics (TSS, total, reducing sugars and ascorbic acid) at 13.06%, 15.28%, 11.65% and 5.03 100 ml-1, respectively. Furthermore, the treatment (B0) resulted the lowest percentage of total acidity at 0.76%. As for the calcium spray, showed a significant effect on all studied characteristics except for the percentage total acidity. The high concentration (2 g liter-1) achieved the values for TSS, total sugars, reducing sugars and ascorbic acid, at 13.05%,14.94%, 11.83% and 5.10 mg 100 ml-1) respectively. The interaction the two study factors reached a significant level of influence on all characteristics except for the percentage of total acidity. The treatment (B2C2) excelled in achieving the best values for most of studied characteristics, while the control treatment (B0C0) showed the values for the studied characteristics.