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Ure Custom Benchgraft
A small, green pear. Flesh is sweet, and juicy. Fire blight resistant.
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Bramtot Custom Benchgraft
A bittersweet green cider apple with some russeting. High tannin juice. Biennial bearer.
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Vermont Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Pale yellow pear covered with dots. Flesh is tender and juicy with a rich flavor.
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Breaky Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized, yellow-green apple with bright red stripes. Good apple for eating fresh and cooking.
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Brock Custom Benchgraft
A cross between Golden Delicious and McIntosh. A large apple with red/pink skin. Flesh is cream colored, crisp and juicy with a sweet/sprightly flavor. Good keeper. Doesn't brown when cut.
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Warren Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, green pear with some red blushing. Flesh is sweet, juicy, and smooth with no grit.
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Brown Snout Custom Benchgraft
A bittersweet cider apple. Fruit is small, green/yellow with some russetting.
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Wilders Early Custom Benchgraft
AÂ large, greenish-yellow pear with a red blush. The flesh is buttery, sweet, and juicy. An abundant cropper.
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Winnals Longdon Custom Benchgraft
A small, green perry pear with a red blush. Used for cider.
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Brown Thorn Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium sized, russeted apple. Used for cider.
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Winter Nelis Custom Benchgraft
It is slightly yellowish-green in color with broad areas of dull reddish-brown overtones. This pear, which has a firm but very juicy and sweet flesh, is excellent as a snack or for use in baking.
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Ya Li Custom Benchgraft
Large smooth pear shaped fruit. Light yellow skin. Crisp, sweet flesh with complex pleasant flavor. Stores well. Blooms early. Fire blight resistant.
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Brown's Apple Custom Benchgraft
Medium, red, sharp cider apple with slightly red flesh. Very hardy
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Yellow Huffcap Custom Benchgraft
Excellent quality perry pear used for cider. Medium sharp acid and tannins. Very high citric acid content.
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Brushy Mtn Limbertwig Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized red over yellow apple with yellow, crisp, very juicy, sweet-tart and highly aromatic flesh. Good keeper. Trees have a tendancy to grow in a weeping form.
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Yoinashi Custom Benchgraft
Round fruit with light brown, russeted skin with golden undertones. Flesh has finer texture than most Asian pears. Sweet flavor.
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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.