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Crimson Crisp Custom Benchgraft
Medium, red apple with crisp, tart flesh. Great eating apple and long keeper.
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Crimson Gold Custom Benchgraft
Etter apple. Medium sized, red-orange on a yellow background apple. Flesh is white, firm and juicy with a sweet-tart flavor. Great keeper.
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Crimson King Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, red apple. It produces an acidic juice with no astringency and makes a light, fruity cider. A good tart eating apple too.
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Crimson Spire Custom Benchgraft
Columnar tree. Skin color is bright red over green. Great eating apple.
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Crimson Topaz Custom Benchgraft
A medium size apple with yellow skin that is overlain with a crimson blush. The flesh is crisp and delicious. Trees are resistant to scab and mildew.
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Cristalina Custom Benchgraft
A semi-sharp Spanish cider apple.
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Crown Empire Custom Benchgraft
Red blush sport of Empire. Ripens 2 weeks earlier than Empire. Intense flavor and better annual bearer.
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Dabinett Custom Benchgraft
A bittersweet cider apple with greenish-yellow skin with a red blush. Blooms late and is a reliable cropping apple. Some scab resistance.
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Dakota Gold Custom Benchgraft
Large fruit, good for fesh eating and cooking.
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D'Arcy Spice Custom Benchgraft
Great flavor in a plain package. Yellowish-green skin, flushed with russet patches surrounds fine, firm crisp flesh with rich, vinous flavor. One of the favorites at our apple tastings.
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Davey Custom Benchgraft
High quality fruit with distinctive flavor. Keeps all winter. Resistant to scab.
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Dayton Custom Benchgraft
A large, brilliant red apple with crisp, juicy, sweet-tart, and very flavorful flesh. Immune to scab and resistant to both mildew and cedar rust.
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Deacon Jones Custom Benchgraft
Very large, yellow apple with red splashes. The flesh is yellow, firm and juicy with a mild flavor. Good keeper.
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Delcon Custom Benchgraft
Full sized, dark red fruits shaped like a Delicious. Sweet, crisp, juicy, white flesh. Good fresh and for pies. Keeps into the winter. Tree is a natural semi-dwarf. Rarely needs pruning. Bred for its resistance to fireblight. Bears enormous yields of...
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Detroit Red Custom Benchgraft
A large, red apple with white flesh and some pink staining. The flavor is sweet-sharp.
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Devonshire Crimson Queen Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin washed with dark red. Flesh is white with some red stains next to the skin. The flavor is sweet with some tartness.
Out of stock$15.00
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.