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WorksheetsTokay FFA - Vine Pruning Contest 2025 | Written Test
Total questions: 47
Worksheet time: 24mins
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
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
On 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.
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
What might happen to the vine is pruned before leaf fall?
It will encourage the fruit to ripen faster.
It may be weakened.
The cane will mature faster.
It will strengthen the vine.
Name the types of pruning tools:
One handed shears
Two handed shears
Pneumatic shears
All of the above
The renewal spur on cane pruned vines is usually cut to how many buds?
2 buds
8–15 buds
Basal buds
All of the above
If a vine is pruned severely, it will
Have poor vigor
Yield more fruit
Be more vigorous
Have more capacity
There are ______ square feet in an acre.
43560
640
5280
43650
Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. How many vines per acre on a 7'x12' spacing?
600
640
518
618
Chautauqua
Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. The most common variety used for making raisins is
Zante Currants
Flame Seedless
Thompson Seedless
Ruby Red
Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. What phenological last year's shoot is now called a ______
shoot
trunk
cane
cordon
Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. Canes should have approximately
1–3 buds
3–7 buds
8–15 buds
15+ buds
Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. Spurs should have approximately
1–3 buds
3–7 buds
8–15 buds
15+ buds
When pruning, cuts should be made about ____ above the bud.
1/4 inch
1/2 inch
1 inch
2 inches
Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. Which of the following is not an author of the General Viticulture book?
Winkler
Cook
Lider
Kliewer
Pearson
Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. The vine heals wounds from the inside by producing a gummy matter called:
Sap
Xylem
Rachis
Tyloses
None of the above
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:
40–60
50–100
100–150
200–250
None of the above
Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. Bearing units include:
Spurs and leaves
Leaves and suckers
Canes and spurs
Shoots and watersprouts
Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. The fruit on ______ system is well distributed, and is favorable to uniform development and maturation.
Unilateral Cordon
Horizontal Cordon
Head
Cane
None of the above
Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. The renewal spurs should usually be ______ in number to the fruit canes and ______.
Equal, given preference in position
Double, not given preference in position
One and a half, given preference in position
Double, given preference in position
Equal, not given preference in position
Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. The fewer shoots permitted to develop, will
Create a smaller crop
Cause shoots to grow more vigorously
Neither A nor B
Both A and B
Multiple Choice: Select the best answer. On a mature vine that has produced good crops and shows normal vigor, the pruner should
Leave the same number of bearing units as the year before
Leave more bearing units than the year before
Leave less bearing units than the year before
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.
True
False
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.
True
False
True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Capacity is directly related to total leaf area.
True
False
True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. The dormant period is between December 1 and March 1.
True
False
True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. A large cane will support more buds than a small one.
True
False
True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. All cuts should be made 121 inches above the last bud.
True
False
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.
True
False
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.
True
False
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.
True
False
True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Pinching is the removal of the growing 1 – 3 inches of the shoot with the thumb and finger.
True
False
True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Removing basal leaves on table grape vines protects the berries from wind scarring.
True
False
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.
True
False
True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Training a vine to the cordon system takes very little skill.
True
False
True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. One advantage of cane pruning is the tendency of most varieties to overbear.
True
False
True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. With varieties that produce large clusters, cane pruning should be used.
True
False
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.
True
False
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.
True
False
True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Thinning is not usually economical in the production of raisin and wine grapes.
True
False
True and False: Mark A for True and B for False. Pruning tends to reduce the capacity of the vine.
True
False
Matching – You may use the options more than once. Match each viticulture activity to the correct description.
Pruning
Determines the form and direction of the trunk and arms
Training
The removal of flower clusters, immature clusters, or parts of immature clusters
Thinning
The removal of living canes, shoots, leaves, and other vegetative parts of the vine
Harvesting
The removal of ripe fruit
Pruning
Determines the number and position of buds that develop
Matching – You may use the options more than once. Match each statement to the appropriate pruning method.
Cane Pruning
Used with varieties of which lower buds are usually sterile
Cane Pruning
Used to distribute the crop well; the clusters should not touch each other
Cane Pruning
Used for Thompson Seedless
Spur Pruning
Used for varieties with small clusters
Cane Pruning
Used with most varieties of very large clustered table grapes
