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Barland Custom Benchgraft
An perry pear for cider with high acids and tannins.
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Bartlett Custom Benchgraft
Large yellow pear with white juicy flesh. Great all around pear. Ripens off the tree. Good keeper. Trees are highly productive.
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Bluebyrd Custom Benchgraft
Deep blue fruit with amber colored flesh. Requires a pollinizer. Good for fresh eating and canning.
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Albemarle Pippin Custom Benchgraft
large-sized; yellowish flesh is firm, crisp, and very aromatic; good keeper; there is also a Yellow Newtown strain, popular in the south
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Beetroot Eric Custom Benchgraft
Small, red fleshed pear used for cider.
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Obilinaja Custom Benchgraft
A medium, red plum. Flesh is firm and yellow-pink with an excellent flavor.
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Alexander Custom Benchgraft
Very large, attractive, red or striped fruit. Excellent for sauce, cooking to a juicy lemony puree. Eaten fresh, quite sweet, slightly scented. Good for home orchards, as it ripens continuously over a period of about four weeks. Tree is hardy, vigorous,...
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Bella Di Guigno Custom Benchgraft
An early, yellow pear with a red blush and excellent flavor.
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President Custom Benchgraft
European plum. A large, dark blue plum. Flesh is yellow and freestone.
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Alfa 68 Custom Benchgraft
Fruits have firm, tender, juicy, acid flesh, with a good flavour.
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Beurre Giffard Custom Benchgraft
Old french pear. Medium, light green pear. Turns pale yellow with pink blush as it ripens. Crisp, tender, juicy flesh with delicious, refreshing flavor. Does not keep well. Very hardy.
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Alkmene Custom Benchgraft
Bright red apple with crisp, juicy flesh. May have some russeting. Not a keeper. Scab tolerant.
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Blakeney Red Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, sharp cider pear with green russeted skin. Heavy and reliable cropper.
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Blake's Pride Custom Benchgraft
Yellow pear with some russetting. Flesh is juicy and aromatic. Very resistant to fire blight.
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Almata Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium-sized; red-fleshed, tart flavor apple. Color is pale red with gray bloom
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Bloody Bastard Custom Benchgraft
Small, red fleshed pear used for cider.
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.