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Elstar Custom Benchgraft
Cross of Golden Delicious and Ingrid Marie. A medium to large, red-yellow apple. It has sweet, crisp, juicy flesh. Flavor gets better in storage.
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Emerald Spire Custom Benchgraft
Growth habit like Crimson Spire but around mid-September you will be picking green apples with a beautiful golden blush & a crisp, tart & tangy flavor. The spring flowers are white, tinged with pink. Highly ornamental & productive in the garden or a...
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Empire Custom Benchgraft
A McIntosh type apple with better color and flavor and longer keeper. Medium size fruit with a creamy white, crisp, juicy flesh.
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Empress Custom Benchgraft
Fruit is medium sized, 90% red, with excellent eating quality and the aromatics of Jonamac. Tree habit is round, not vigorous. Blooms with Red Delicious.
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Enterprise Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, red apple. A very good keeper that is very disease resistant.
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Ermen's Russet Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large sized, russeted apple. The flesh is yellowish and crisp with a very sweet flavor.
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Erwin Baur Custom Benchgraft
A good sized seedling of Oldenburg. A late variety, lightly striped red over yellow. It has especially hard and crisp flesh with the high flavor of Cox Orange.
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Esopus Spitzenburg Custom Benchgraft
Thomas Jeffersons favorite dessert apple; A medium to large; orangish apple with some russeting. The flesh is yellow with spicy, juicy favor. Very good keeper.
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Etter's Gold Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple that ripens from green to a clear gold. The flesh is aromatic and has a distinctive flavour and is crisp and juicy. Appearance Medium to large in size, it ripens from green to a clear golden colour.
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Eve's Delight Custom Benchgraft
A very large red apple with a similar shape to a Red Delicious. Trees have very strong branches and up-right growth.
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Fall Jenneting Custom Benchgraft
An unusually shaped apple was considered one of the best apples in the 1800s for both canning and cooking.
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Fall Russet Custom Benchgraft
Small, unattractive, yellowish green or golden russet apple. Very good eating and drying.
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Fall Wine Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin with red stripes. Flesh is yellow, tender and juicy with a 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.