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Franklin Custom Benchgraft
A cross between Delicious and McIntosh. Well-colored fruit. Tender, crisp flesh, mild flavor. Resembles shape of Delicious, but far superior in eating quality.
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Franklin Cider Custom Benchgraft
A bittersharp cider apple that is sweet enough for fresh eating. It has green skin with heavy russeting. Reported resistant to scab, cedar-apple rust, and fireblight. Flesh is white, crisp and sweet.
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Frank's Tilly Custom Benchgraft
A chance seedling. A medium sized apple with green skin with red stripping and white lenticels.
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Freedom Custom Benchgraft
Sister apple to Liberty.
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Freiherr Von Berlepsch Custom Benchgraft
Cross of Ribston Pippin and Ananas Reinette. Small to medium dessert apple. Very high vitamin C content and has a pineapple flavor.
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Frequin Rouge Custom Benchgraft
A traditional French bittersweet cider apple. Small apple covered with dark red blush.
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Freyberg Custom Benchgraft
Small, yellow/green apple with some russeting. White flesh is juicy and firm with a slight licorice taste.
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Friandise Custom Benchgraft
A small-medium, yellow, dessert apple with a dark red blush. The flesh is greenish, crisp and juicy with a sweet flavor and hints of cinnamon.
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Frostbite Custom Benchgraft
Small apple with a very sweet, intense taste. Crisp but firm texture and juicy. Extremely cold hardy, it is an excellent variety for cold, northern regions. Great for cider or cooking. Parent to ‘Keepsake’ and ‘Sweet 16’, grandparent to ‘Honeycrisp’.
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Frostproof Custom Benchgraft
A small, green apple with some russeting. The flesh is white with a green hue, fine grained, dry and high tanin. Not an eating apple.
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Fuji Beni Shogun Custom Benchgraft
A large, red apple with crisp, sweet, flavorful flesh. Great keeper. Scab resistance.
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Fuji Myra Red Custom Benchgraft
Bright red apple with dark red striping. Sweet and crisp, just like Fuji, but does better further north. Excellent keeper.
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Fuji Rising Sun Custom Benchgraft
A type of Fuji apple that has crisp, sweet flesh. Outstanding keeping apple.
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Gala Autumn Custom Benchgraft
A large, red apple with crispy, sweet flesh.
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Gala Brookfield Custom Benchgraft
Derived from Royal Gala. Fruit is dark red with bold stripes. Flavor is mild and sweet.
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Gala Gale Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, red apple with yellow flecks. Flesh is firm and semi-sweet.
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Gala RedRidge Custom Benchgraft
An improved Gala that is completely red and ripens about one week earlier.
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Galarina Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium sized, yellow covered with red apple. Flesh is yellowish-white, firm, juicy, and aromatic with a slightly-tart flavour. Good keeper. Disease resistant.
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Gallen Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, early, yellow apple. The flavor is a good balance of sweet and sub-acid. A better eating apple than Lodi. Very hardy and resistant to fire blight.
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.