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Devonshire Quarrenden Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red apple. Flesh is white with some red staining, crisp, juicy and sweet-tart flavor.
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Discovery Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red-striped, apaple with crisp flesh. Hardy and disease resistant to scab.
Out of stock$15.00 -
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Dolgo Crab Custom Benchgraft
Small, crimson color crab apple. Flesh is very flavorful and makes a good ruby red jelly. It usually sets huge crops annually
Out of stock$15.00 -
Domaines Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, French bitter cider apple.
Out of stock$15.00 -
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Double Red Duchess Custom Benchgraft
Same coloring as Duchess of Oldenburg. Tart apple that is good for eating, pies and applesauce. Not a good keeper.
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Doug's Delicious Custom Benchgraft
Found growing in Oconto County, WI. It has all the characteristics of early Delicious types. Better flavor, except it ripens earlier and is more cold hardy for Northern climates.
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Doux Normandie Custom Benchgraft
A small bittersweet cider apple with yellow skin and red strips.
Out of stock$15.00 -
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Duchess of Oldenburg Custom Benchgraft
Fruit medium to large; color pale yellow covered with splashes and stripes of pinkish red. Excellent flavor with tart overtones. Very good for cooking. Earliest apple.
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Duchess's Favorite Custom Benchgraft
A medkum, green-yellow apple with red striping. Flesh is firm, crispy, white with red staining. Sometimes has a strong strawberry flavor.
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Duck's Bill Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple with green skin and red on sun side with red stripes on rest. Flesh is cream colored, crisp, juicy, and sweet.
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Dudley Custom Benchgraft
A seedling from Duchess of Oldenburg. Tree is very cold hardy. Medium to large apple that is bright green/yellow skin with red stripping. The yellow flesh is firm, chris, and very juicy. Good keeper.
Out of stock$15.00 -
Dufflin Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium, yellow apple with some russeting. Flesh is yellowish, soft and very sweet. A bittersharp cider apple.
Out of stock$15.00 -
Out of stock$15.00 -
Duke of Devonshire Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, russeted apple. Flesh is cream colored, fine-grained and crisp with a sweet-sharp flavor. Resistant to scab.
Out of stock$15.00 -
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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.