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Fallawater Pippin Custom Benchgraft
Fruit large to very large with dull green skin shaded with red and bronze. Flesh is greenish white, tender, coarse and juicy.
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Fameuse (Snow) Custom Benchgraft
One of the oldest and most desirable dessert apples, a parent of the aromatic McIntosh. Medium size red apple with snow white flesh.
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Father Abraham Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, green-yellow apple. It has yellowish flesh which can be tinged with red and a sweet flavor. Good keeper.
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Fearns Pippin Custom Benchgraft
A brilliant scarlet colored apple. Crisp, juicy flesh with an acid and sweet flavor resembling lemons but mellowing to a slight raspberry flavor.
Out of stock$15.00 -
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Fenouillet de Ribours Custom Benchgraft
A large red, russetted dessert apple. Flesh is sweet, crisp, rich flavor.
Out of stock$15.00 -
Fenouillet de Rose Custom Benchgraft
A french dessert apple with anise flavor.
Out of stock$15.00 -
Fenouillet Gris Custom Benchgraft
Small, dark red apple with gray russet which has very sweet, dry flesh
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Fenouillet Rouge Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium sized apple with green/yellow skin with red wash and russetted blush. Flesh is cream colored, firm, crisp, and juicy with a sweet, licorice flavor. Good keeper.
Out of stock$15.00 -
Out of stock$15.00 -
Out of stock$15.00 -
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Fireside Custom Benchgraft
Large conical fruit. Green skin with scarlet stripes and sometimes a mottled orange flush. Crisp, sweet, juicy greenish white to yellow flesh. Not flat or mealy. Sweet subacid flavor. Excellent dessert apple. Good keeper. Resistant to cedar apple rust...
Out of stock$15.00 -
Out of stock$15.00 -
Fletcher Sweet Custom Benchgraft
Medium green apple with some russeting. Flesh is white, juicy and crisp with minimum green hue. Medium keeper
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Florina Querina Custom Benchgraft
A large size apple with green skin blushed with dark red. Flesh is cream colored, firm, sweet, and flavorful. Immune to scab.
Out of stock$15.00 -
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Fortune Custom Benchgraft
'Fortune' is a hybrid of 'Schoharie Spy' x 'Empire'. It is a large, red apple with yellow flesh which is excellent for eating fresh. Trees are usually very vigorous.
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Fox Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, green/yellow apple with a vary tart flavor. Great cooking apple. Great for cider because of it's tartness for blending.
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Foxwhelp Custom Benchgraft
A small bittersweet cider apple with red skin.
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.