Which of the following is the correct listing of the two types of grapevine buds?

• A. Dormant buds and Active buds
• B. Compound buds and Prompt buds
• C. Terminal buds and Lateral buds
• D. Primary buds and Secondary buds

Answer: (B)

Grapevine buds are categorized by their structure and how they behave in the next growing season. Some buds are compound, meaning they contain more than one latent bud inside a single protective structure, offering the potential for multiple shoots from one node. The other type is prompt buds, which are simple in structure and tend to break to produce a single shoot in the coming season. This distinction is useful for predicting how many shoots and potential fruiting wood you’ll get from a node, and it’s the standard way to describe the two bud types. The other pairings describe where a bud sits on the shoot (terminal vs lateral), the order of buds (primary vs secondary), or the bud’s physiological state (dormant vs active), none of which define the two bud types themselves. So the correct pairing is compound buds and prompt buds.