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Garden Royal Custom Benchgraft
Small to medium fruit. Thin green-yellow skin is nearly flushed red with stripes. Juicy, yellow flesh almost melts with tenderness. Great flavor.
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Geeveston Fanny Custom Benchgraft
A small reddish-purple apple with a sweetly flavored white flesh. Great eating apple. Heavy cropper.
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Gemma Custom Benchgraft
A chance seedling spot of Roxbury Russet from Singing Tree Orchard. A large, dark red over greenish yellow skinned apple. Flesh is mild, sweet, sub acid, juicy, and coursely melting. Very productive tree. Fantastic keeper.
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Geneva Red Custom Benchgraft
Large, red apple with tender flesh. Not a good keeper
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Gilpin Custom Benchgraft
Yellow appple with some red blush. Tender, sweet apple that is good for cider.
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Ginger Gold Custom Benchgraft
Can be picked green but will turn an attractive yellow with a blush if allowed to hang on the tree. Uiform fruit size. Keeps up to 6 months in storage. Ripens six weeks before Gibson Golden. Vigorous tree habit but no limb spreading is necessary.
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Gladstone Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red apple. Flesh is white with a greenish tinge and can have red staining under the skin. Flesh is soft, crisp, juicy, and sweet-tart with a raspberry taste when very ripe.
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Glockenapfel Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, yellow, bell shaped apple. The flesh is yellowish, crisp and dry with a tart and slight sweet flavor. Good for pie and sauce.
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Gloria Mundi Custom Benchgraft
A huge apple, probably the largest apple ever grown in the United States. Some apples commonly reach a pound or a pound-and-a-half. Although it is not considered a good fresh-eating apple, it is a fine cooking variety. The fruit is large to very large...
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Gloster Custom Benchgraft
Conic shape, attractive fully red fruit with calyx end shoulder bumps. Larger, mostly 3" diameter. Good flavor, crisp flesh. Tarter flavor than Delicious. Extremely productive tree. Tree vigorous, heavy cropper.
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Glowing Heart Custom Benchgraft
A red-fleshed dessert apple. Quite tart. Used for jelly and cider.
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GMAL 3563 Custom Benchgraft
A small, red apple with white flesh with pink staining. The flavor is sweet/tart.
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Gnarled Chapman Custom Benchgraft
A large, irregular shaped cider apple with yellow/green skin and heavily russeted. A bittersweet cider apple.
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Gold Ball Custom Benchgraft
Large, round, yellow fruit with some russeting. Fair keeper, strong grower, and annual bearer.
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Gold Star Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow apple. Flesh is fine with a spicy flavor. Disease resistant.
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Golden Delicious Custom Benchgraft
A large apple with golden yellow skin. The flesh is yellow, crispy and juicy with a mild sweet flavor.
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Golden Harvey Custom Benchgraft
A small, yellow apple with some russeting and red blush. Flesh is very spicy sweet.
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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.