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Dunning Custom Benchgraft
Dark red apple with a very sweet, white flesh.
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Dyer Custom Benchgraft
Medium size apple is greenish yellow with a shade of red and some russeting. Flesh has a spicy flavor.
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Dymock Red Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, bittersweet cider and dessert apple. Flesh is white and a dryish.
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Early Cortland Custom Benchgraft
Fruit similar to Cortland, but tarter. Stores well for an early apple. Tree a vigorous grower.
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Early Gold Custom Benchgraft
Similar to Lodi but firmer. A yellow-green apple with tart, crisp flesh.
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Early Grannie Custom Benchgraft
A sport of Granny Smith that requires only 165 frost free days to mature.
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Early Harvest Custom Benchgraft
It ripens over an extended period, grows well in all types of soil, and is prized for its great eating and cooking qualities. The fruit is medium in size with smooth, pale yellow skin. The tender white flesh is crisp and juicy with a brisk, tangy flavor.
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Early Joe Custom Benchgraft
Early Joe first received recognition in 1843 at a fair exhibition in Rochester, New York. Ten years later, its reputation had spread to the South where it was listed in several nursery catalogs in the region. The medium-sized apple is slightly conical in...
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Early Strawberry Custom Benchgraft
It is very similar in appearance to another early apple, Early Red Margaret, with the two often mistaken. Fruit is medium sized and often has unequal sides. The smooth, thick skin is light greenish-yellow with fine stripes and splashes of bright red. The...
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Eastman Sweet Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, greenish/yellow apple with red stripes. The flesh is yellow, firm and juicy with a sweet, aromatic flavor.
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Edelborsdorfer Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium size pale yellow apple with red blush. It has white, crisp, juicy and sweet and hints of cinnamon flesh. Very hardy.
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Edward VII Custom Benchgraft
Regarded by some as the finest winter apple for spring pie and sauce. A great cooking apple. Medium to large, shiny green or yellow skin, flesh firm, tart and juicy. Flat-round to round shape. Keeps until Easter when it possesses a rich, sweet flavor...
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Egremont Russet Custom Benchgraft
Prized as the most delicious of the English russets. Small, round, golden brown russet fruit often with black spots or markings. Greenish-yellow, richly flavored, very distinctive flesh, often described as nutty. Almost smoky, tannic quality develops...
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Elah Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin and pink blush. Flesh is fine-grained and crisp with a sweet flavor. Disease resistant. Low chill hours.
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Ellis Bitter Custom Benchgraft
A bittersweet cider apple. Fruit is small with yellow skin. Blooms late but very productive tree. Short storage.
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Ellison's Orange Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized, golden apple which has juicy, yellow flesh. This tree can be biennial bearing.
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.