A large crop does not delay maturity of clusters.

If a grower wants large clusters with large berries, he must limit the number of clusters.

A strong shoot development is desirable in young vine training.

The dormant period is from December 1 to March 1.

The time of pruning within the dormant period has little or no influence on the vigor of growth on production of fruit during the following season.

The cane system is the most depressing system of pruning grapevines.

Buds are generally fruitful in one-year old canes that arise from two-year old wood.

A large cane will support more buds than a small one.

Mechanical harvesting works best on large, very vigorous vines.

Cane pruned vines can be mechanically pruned.

Thinning is the removal of ripe fruit.

Pruning tends to reduce the capacity of a grapevine.

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

Pruning is the cheapest method of thinning.

The leaving of long bearing units is called cane pruning.

Thompsons Seedless vines are normally pruned to the cordon system.

There are 43,650 Sq Ft in an acre.

Training a vine to the cordon system takes very little skill.

Pruning tends to reduce the production capacity of a grapevine.

To produce a good crop of fruit, a vine needs to produce a good crop of wood.

The smaller the amount of wood removed by pruning, the more rapidly will the leaves develop.

The shoots of severely pruned vines grow faster than on lightly pruned vines.

The production of a big crop does not depress the capacity of the vine.

In some varieties the basal buds are sterile.

The more erect a shoot, cane or any part of the vine the more vigorous it will grow.

Vines pruned before the fall of the leaves are not weakened.

Adequate control of crop by pruning alone is impossible.

Very severe pruning decreases the size of the cluster.

Suckering is not very important, especially in young vineyards.

Very light open soils benefit little from pruning.

If a vine is left un-pruned all the buds will grow the following spring.

Canes with internodes of medium length have the most fruitful buds.

Pruning tends to reduce the capacity of a grapevine

Judicious removal of leaves sometimes helps certain varieties, such as Emperor, to color.

The cuts at the end of the spur should be right on the bud.

The first growth in the spring comes from the highest buds on the vines.

A given vine in a given season can properly nourish and ripen any quantity of fruit; its capacity is unlimited by its history and environment.

Grapevines with a heavy crop have more vigorous growth than vines with a light crop.

The development of a young vine in a desired form is training.

Less severe pruning increases vine growth and production.

The labor involved in establishing and maintaining a vineyard is of no concern to the pruner.

Suckering, crown suckering, pinching, topping, and the removal of spurs are all operations in summer pruning.

Over cropping may cause delayed fruit maturity.

November 1 to March 1 is the dormant period for vines.

Pruning can lessen or eliminate thinning.

The removal of dead wood has no direct effect on the vine, but is considered pruning.

The head trained/cane pruned system is preferred over the bilateral cordon trained/spur pruned system in most CA wine vineyards.

Pruning problems should be repaired with good thinning.

One American pruning and training system is the Geneva double curtain.