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Summer Blood Birne Custom Benchgraft
European pear. A small red fleshed pear with yellow skin and a red blush. The flesh is very sweet and makes a sweet red juice.
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Blue Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
An old apple of uncertain origin, but probably American. It was noted by the Royal Horticultural Society of London in 1893 and widely grown in New York and New England in the 19th century. A large, slightly conical fruit with red and purplish-red...
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Summer Crisp Custom Benchgraft
Medium size pear with sweet, crisp flesh.
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Blue Ridge King Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red apple with dark red stripes. Mainly an eating apple.
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Sunrise Pear Custom Benchgraft
Early yellow pear with sweet flesh. Tree is very disease resistant.
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Blush Rosette Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple with yellow/green skin with a heavy red blush. Flesh is cream colored with pink staining throughout. The flavor is sweet and complex. Susceptible to scab.
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Superfin Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow pear with some russeting. Flesh is granular, melting, juicy, and sweet.
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Blushing Golden Custom Benchgraft
A large size, yellow apple with an orange-red blush. Flesh is juicy and very flavorful. Flavor improves with storage.
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Theilsbirne Custom Benchgraft
A small , yellow perry pear used for cider.
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Bonne Hotture Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium sized, golden yellow apple with some russeting. The flesh is white, fine-grained and juicy with a sweet/tart flavor.
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Thorn Custom Benchgraft
A small , yellow perry pear used for cider.
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Bonnie Best Custom Benchgraft
An excellent apple for pies, canning, and fresh use. Fruits are large with attractive pale red striping. Flesh is creamy color, crunchy, tender, juicy and slightly tart. Keeps well in storage.
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Treasure Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, yellow skin pear with some russeting. Flesh is juicy, fine grained and buttery with a sweet, mild flavor.
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Bottle Greening Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large green apple with white, tender and juicy flesh. Flavor is sweet/sharp and aromatic. Great all around apple.
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Turnbull Giant Custom Benchgraft
A very large, juicy, crisp, sweet round pears resemble Asian pears. Highly disease resistant to fireblight and other pear diseases.
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Braddick's Nonpareil Custom Benchgraft
Aromatic dessert apple with yellow-green skin flushed with red-orange. Cream colored flesh is firm and crisp with a fine texture.
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Tyson Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized pear with yellow skin. Flesh is juicy with a spicy-sweet flavor.
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Braeburn Custom Benchgraft
Late season apple of very high quality. Fruit is medium to large size with orangish-red blush over a green-yellow background. Quite tart and firm, good for eating and makes a fabulous pie. Rated high in fruit trials in Oregon and Washington, Braeburn is...
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Ubileen Custom Benchgraft
A large size pear with yellow skin and a red blush. Flesh is juicy, fine and melting with a rich flavor. Very disease resistant.
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Bramley's Seedling Custom Benchgraft
Large, green cooking apple from England. Very good apple for cooking and cider. Trees are very vigorous and spreading. Bears heavy and regular.
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Custom Benchgraft
Custom Bench Grafting Apple, Pear, Plum trees
Bench grafting is where a piece of scionwood is grafted onto a rootstock to grow a new tree. The scionwood dictates the variety of fruit. The rootstock dictates the size, hardiness, vigor, and disease resistance of the tree. Apple scions must be grafted onto apple rootstock, pear scions onto pear rootstock, and plum scions onto stone rootstock.
There are many different methods of bench grafting, but the whip and tongue is a good one with high success rates. Basically, we whip and tongue graft a piece of scionwood that has 2-3 buds on it (usually 2-3 inches) onto a rootstock of your choice. Before grafting onto the rootstock, it is cut down to 6 inches above the top root which usually ends up with a 12 inch rootstock. The resulting benchgraft is roughly 14-15 inches long.