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Custom Benchgraft

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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.

  • Golden Noble Custom Benchgraft

    Golden Noble Custom Benchgraft

    Very handsome pure yellow fruit with creamy white flesh and excellent texture. One of the best cooking apples with high acid and an extremely good fruity flavor. Trees are upright, spreading and moderately vigorous. A special garden tree because of the...

    $15.00
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  • Golden Nugget Custom Benchgraft

    Golden Nugget Custom Benchgraft

    Cross between Cox Orange Pippin and Golden Russet. Small to medium, conical, long stemmed apple with yellow streaked apple with orange blush and some russeting. Very sweet, juicy and crisp flesh. Disease resistant. Does not keep long.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Golden Pearmain Custom Benchgraft

    Golden Pearmain Custom Benchgraft

    Golden Pearmain is believed to be one of the original apples grown in Thomas Jefferson's orchards in Monticello. The medium-sized, somewhat conical fruit has an attractive golden-orange skin, marbled and striped with red and bronze. The fine-grained,...

    $15.00
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  • Golden Reinette Custom Benchgraft

    Golden Reinette Custom Benchgraft

    Sweet tasting, beautiful apple, widely grown around London in the 1850s and reputed to be at its perfection in Hertfordshire.It likes light, warm soil. An old deservedly esteemed table apple.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Golden Russet Custom Benchgraft

    Golden Russet Custom Benchgraft

    An old American cider apple, also good for eating and drying, and attractive for a russet. Tree medium to large, fruit medium to above. The sugary, dense flesh of this apple is the essence of the European reinettes.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Golden Sweet Custom Benchgraft

    Golden Sweet Custom Benchgraft

    An extraordinarily sweet apple, so sweet that the "first bite can be a shock." It has no acid to balance the sweetness, so eating Golden Sweet can be like eating a tablespoon of honey. Fruit is medium to large with thin, smooth waxy yellow skin. The...

    $15.00
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  • Goodland Custom Benchgraft

    Goodland Custom Benchgraft

    Flesh crisp, juicy and tender, makes delicious aromatic sauce and is also an excellent eating apple. Productive, annual bearer.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Goof Custom Benchgraft

    Goof Custom Benchgraft

    A round, medium sized apple, pale green overlaid with deep purplish-red, and faint yellow streaks. White flesh is crisp, juicy and moderately subacid. Tree crops heavily with well spurred spreading growth habit.

    $15.00
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  • Graniwinkle Custom Benchgraft

    Graniwinkle Custom Benchgraft

    A sharp cider apple high in sugar and acids and low in tannin. Green-yellow apple that is flushed with red. Sets heavy crops. It's often mixed with Harrison to make excellent cider. Is very good for fresh eating and desserts.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Gray Pearmain Custom Benchgraft

    Gray Pearmain Custom Benchgraft

    A large, green, pink blushed, russetted apple. Flesh is crisp, white, and juicy while being mildly tart with a pearlike taste. A good keeper.

    $15.00
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