Week 2

Define pruning:

• the removal of flower clusters, immature clusters, or parts of immature clusters.

• The removal of ripe fruit.

• The removal of canes, shoots, leaves, and other vegetative parts of the vine.

• The removal of dead or diseased wood.

Define vigor:

• How fast the leaves fall off the vine

• The quality or condition that is expressed in rapid growth of the parts of the vine

• the change in color of grapes

• the thickness in diameter of the shoots and canes

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS1-6

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Choose the best description of a mature cane:

• Firm and carries a large storage of reserve material, such as starch and sugars. The dark color of the cane carries all the way down to its end.

• Soft with a green yellow color

• Green throughout the entire cane

• Skinny and tapers out toward the end of its length

Define thinning:

• The removal of flower clusters, immature clusters, or parts of the immature clusters.

• The removal of canes, shoots, leaves, and other vegetative parts of the vine.

• The removal of ripe fruit.

• Removal of shoots arising from the ground

Tags

NGSS.MS-LS2-1

Define capacity:

• The amount of leaves on the vine

• the quality of the action with respect to the total growth and total crop of which the vine or a part of the vine is capable

• the amount of wood that is pruned

• the speed at which the canopy grows

One what kind of wood are buds generally fruitful?

• three year old wood that arise from four year old wood

• one year old wood that arise from two year old wood

• two year old wood that arise from three year old wood

• one year old wood that arises from the base of the vine

Where does the first growth in the spring usually come from on the vine?

• Buds nearest the end of the cane on spurs and those on the highest part of the vine

• from the cordon

• buds nearest the bottom of the cane or spur and those at the lowest part of the vine

• buds nearest the middle of the cane or spur and those in the middle part of the vine

Define harvesting:

• the removal of canes, shoots, leaves, and other vegetative parts of the vine

• the removal of flower clusters, immature clusters, or parts of immature clusters

• the removal of ripe fruit

• the removal of diseased fruit and rachises

When does pruning take place?

• while the vines are growing in the summer

• while the vines are dormant in the winter

• at harvest

• during veraison

How do pruning wounds heal?

• veraison

• xylem

• tyloses

• all of the above