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Tokay FFA - Vine Pruning Contest 2025 | Written Test

Total questions: 47

Worksheet time: 24mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

Define Pruning:

a)

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

b)

The removal of ripe fruit.

c)

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

d)

The removal of dead or diseased wood.

2.

Define Vigor:

a)

How fast the leaves fall off the vine

b)

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

c)

The change in color of grapes

d)

The thickness in diameter of the shoots and canes

3.

Define capacity:

a)

The amount of leaves on the vine

b)

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.

c)

The amount of wood that is pruned

d)

The speed at which the canopy grows

4.

On what kind of wood are buds generally fruitful?

a)

Three year old wood that arise from four year old wood.

b)

One year old wood that arise from two year old wood.

c)

Two year old wood that arise from three year old wood.

d)

One year old wood that arises from the base of the vine.

5.

Define harvesting:

a)

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

b)

The removal of flower clusters, immature clusters, or parts of immature clusters

c)

The removal of ripe fruit

d)

The removal of diseased fruit and rachises

6.

When does pruning take place?

a)

While the vines are growing in the summer.

b)

While the vines are dormant in the winter.

c)

At harvest.

d)

During Veraison.

7.

How do pruning wounds heal?

a)

Veraison

b)

Xylem

c)

Tyloses

d)

All of the above

8.

What might happen to the vine is pruned before leaf fall?

a)

It will encourage the fruit to ripen faster.

b)

It may be weakened.

c)

The cane will mature faster.

d)

It will strengthen the vine.

9.

Name the types of pruning tools:

a)

One handed shears

b)

Two handed shears

c)

Pneumatic shears

d)

All of the above

10.

The renewal spur on cane pruned vines is usually cut to how many buds?

a)

2 buds

b)

8–15 buds

c)

Basal buds

d)

All of the above

11.

If a vine is pruned severely, it will

a)

Have poor vigor

b)

Yield more fruit

c)

Be more vigorous

d)

Have more capacity

12.

There are ______ square feet in an acre.

a)

43560

b)

640

c)

5280

d)

43650

13.

Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. How many vines per acre on a 7'x12' spacing?

a)

600

b)

640

c)

518

d)

618

e)

Chautauqua

14.

Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. The most common variety used for making raisins is

a)

Zante Currants

b)

Flame Seedless

c)

Thompson Seedless

d)

Ruby Red

15.

Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. What phenological last year's shoot is now called a ______

a)

shoot

b)

trunk

c)

cane

d)

cordon

16.

Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. Canes should have approximately

a)

1–3 buds

b)

3–7 buds

c)

8–15 buds

d)

15+ buds

17.

Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. Spurs should have approximately

a)

1–3 buds

b)

3–7 buds

c)

8–15 buds

d)

15+ buds

18.

When pruning, cuts should be made about ____ above the bud.

a)

1/4 inch

b)

1/2 inch

c)

1 inch

d)

2 inches

19.

Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. Which of the following is not an author of the General Viticulture book?

a)

Winkler

b)

Cook

c)

Lider

d)

Kliewer

e)

Pearson

20.

Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. The vine heals wounds from the inside by producing a gummy matter called:

a)

Sap

b)

Xylem

c)

Rachis

d)

Tyloses

e)

None of the above

21.

Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. Before pruning, an average cane pruned vine has an average of 750 buds. Pruning should reduce this number to approximately:

a)

40–60

b)

50–100

c)

100–150

d)

200–250

e)

None of the above

22.

Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. Bearing units include:

a)

Spurs and leaves

b)

Leaves and suckers

c)

Canes and spurs

d)

Shoots and watersprouts

23.

Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. The fruit on ______ system is well distributed, and is favorable to uniform development and maturation.

a)

Unilateral Cordon

b)

Horizontal Cordon

c)

Head

d)

Cane

e)

None of the above

24.

Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. The renewal spurs should usually be ______ in number to the fruit canes and ______.

a)

Equal, given preference in position

b)

Double, not given preference in position

c)

One and a half, given preference in position

d)

Double, given preference in position

e)

Equal, not given preference in position

25.

Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. The fewer shoots permitted to develop, will

a)

Create a smaller crop

b)

Cause shoots to grow more vigorously

c)

Neither A nor B

d)

Both A and B

26.

Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. On a mature vine that has produced good crops and shows normal vigor, the pruner should

a)

Leave the same number of bearing units as the year before

b)

Leave more bearing units than the year before

c)

Leave less bearing units than the year before

27.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Vigor is the quality or condition that is expressed in rapid growth of the vine.

a)

True

b)

False

28.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Vines that have a heavy crop one year will likely repeat a heavy crop the next year.

a)

True

b)

False

29.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Capacity is directly related to total leaf area.

a)

True

b)

False

30.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. The dormant period is between December 1 and March 1.

a)

True

b)

False

31.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. A large cane will support more buds than a small one.

a)

True

b)

False

32.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. All cuts should be made 1121 \tfrac{1}{2} inches above the last bud.

a)

True

b)

False

33.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Vigor is the quality or condition that is expressed in rapid growth of the vine.

a)

True

b)

False

34.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. A young vine may show great vigor but have less capacity than an old mature vine.

a)

True

b)

False

35.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Vines pruned very late in the season start growing slightly later than those pruned in mid dormancy.

a)

True

b)

False

36.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Pinching is the removal of the growing 1133 inches of the shoot with the thumb and finger.

a)

True

b)

False

37.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Removing basal leaves on table grape vines protects the berries from wind scarring.

a)

True

b)

False

38.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Poor fruit bud formation is one effect of increasing the vine beyond its normal crop.

a)

True

b)

False

39.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Training a vine to the cordon system takes very little skill.

a)

True

b)

False

40.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. One advantage of cane pruning is the tendency of most varieties to overbear.

a)

True

b)

False

41.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. With varieties that produce large clusters, cane pruning should be used.

a)

True

b)

False

42.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Cane pruning vines reduces pruning cost to the minimum. It is the least expensive.

a)

True

b)

False

43.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Vigor is the quality that is expressed in rapid growth and capacity is the quantity of action with respect to total growth.

a)

True

b)

False

44.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Thinning is not usually economical in the production of raisin and wine grapes.

a)

True

b)

False

45.

True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Pruning tends to reduce the capacity of the vine.

a)

True

b)

False

46.

Matching – You may use the options more than once. Match each viticulture activity to the correct description.

a)

Pruning

1.

Determines the form and direction of the trunk and arms

b)

Training

2.

The removal of flower clusters, immature clusters, or parts of immature clusters

c)

Thinning

3.

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

d)

Harvesting

4.

The removal of ripe fruit

e)

Pruning

5.

Determines the number and position of buds that develop

47.

Matching – You may use the options more than once. Match each statement to the appropriate pruning method.

a)

Cane Pruning

1.

Used with varieties of which lower buds are usually sterile

b)

Cane Pruning

2.

Used to distribute the crop well; the clusters should not touch each other

c)

Cane Pruning

3.

Used for Thompson Seedless

d)

Spur Pruning

4.

Used for varieties with small clusters

e)

Cane Pruning

5.

Used with most varieties of very large clustered table grapes