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Centennial Crab Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Wealthy and Dolgo Crab. A yellow crab apple with white, crisp, and juicy flesh. The flavor is sweet and nutty. Apples get to be 1.5 - 2 inches in diameter. Great pollinator.
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Champlain Custom Benchgraft
Round, yellow apple with tender, juicy flesh.
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Charette Custom Benchgraft
Large, donut shaped red striped apple. Aromatic flesh. Excellent for sauce and pies.
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Chehalis Custom Benchgraft
Large green/yellow apple that is similar to Golden Delicious. Great apple for baking.
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Chenango Strawberry Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple with yellow/greenish skin with some red stripping. A dessert apple that is good for lots of uses. The white flesh is firm, juicy and very aromatic. Trees are hardy but susceptible to fire blight.
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Cherry Cox Custom Benchgraft
Sport of Cox Orange Pippin from Denmark. Often shows dark red stripes and splashes of the solid red fruit. Keeps in storage one month longer than others of this type.
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Cherry Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large red stripped apple. Pink fleshed with a tart taste.
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Chesapeake Custom Benchgraft
A seedling of Red Rome and has the same characteristics. Tree is medium size and very vigorous, hardy, productive.
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Chestnut Crab Custom Benchgraft
A large crab that is good for cooking and desserts. The flesh is crisp, juicy and sweet and has a nut-like flavor. A very hardy tree and resistant to cedar-apple rust.
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Chieftain Custom Benchgraft
Medium size red apple with firm, juicy white flesh. Good keeper.
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Chisel Jersey Custom Benchgraft
A reddish bittersweet cider apple. Very vigorous tree.
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Chiver's Delight Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with greenish/yellow skin and red blush over most of the apple. Flesh is white, crisp, and juicy with a sweet/acidic 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.