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Fruit Knowledge Quiz
Test your knowledge on fruit cultivation and care with our engaging quiz! Perfect for gardeners, horticulturists, and fruit enthusiasts, this quiz covers essential topics ranging from pruning techniques to pest management.
Challenge yourself and learn more about:
- Apple tree care
- Blueberry and blackberry pruning
- Strawberry types and management
- Insect pests and diseases
Which apple tree is pruned most correctly to the central leader form?
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A bacterial disease that can be devastating to an apple tree when infection moves into the trunk is ________________________________--. You should cut out infections on the branches to keep it from moving further into the tree.
Fire blight
Apple scab
Powdery mildew
The most devastating insect pest on an apple tree is _______________________
Apple coddling moth
San Jose Scale
Flat head apple borer
Plum curcurlio
Someone purchases a 'Outchita' Blackberry from our Extension Service fruit plant sale. It is a floricane variety of thornless blackberrry. They later call the office in June and want to know when they should prun it? How would you advise them.
You can cut all the canes back to the ground int he fall
Cut all the canes to the ground in spring
Tip the primocanes in the summer when they reach the top of their trellis. Then prune laterals the next spring or early summer when they are 12-24" long
Blueberries like a low pH between _______________, if the pH is too high iron becomes ___________________
4.5-5.5, deficient
5.7-6.8, deficient
4.5-5.5, toxic
If someone has a 50 ft long space that it 5 ft. wide. How many High Bush Blueberries should they buy
12-15
9-10
7
When pruning an overgrown blueberry bush, we want to encourage new healthy growth that will be more productive than older mature wood. We should begin our pruning .....
By shortening the whole shrub to 3 ft tall
Removing entire canes that are mature, usually grey in color and often covered in lichen
Someone calls the Extension office, they have just moved to the mountains and want to grow their own raspberries. They are just learning how to garden. Would you recommend the Prelude raspberry that is a floricane variety or the Polana raspberry that is a primocane variety?
Prelude (Floricane)
Polana (primocane)
Junebearing strawberries bloom early in the season and are subject to damage from late freezes, they are usually grown in the ________________________ system and need to be renovated and thinned every year.
Hill system
Matted row
Which type of strawberry produces fruit throughout the season or one spring and one fall crop
Everbearing or day neutral
Junebearing
In our region, wine grapes such as vinifera and French hybrid varieties can be espcially hard to grow due to our humid environment that leads to development of various fungal diseases
True
False
One pest problem with all soft fruits including blueberries, blackberries, raspberries and strawberries is the introduced fruit fly, the Spotted Wing Drosophila. It is easily controlled by using insecticidal soap.
True
False
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