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Amberoso Custom Benchgraft
Large red fleshed crab apple
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Bosc Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, dark yellow pear with some russeting. A high quality pear and good keeper. Ripens off the tree. Trees are very productive.
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Ambrosia Custom Benchgraft
A chance seedling discovered in British Columbia, Canada. The fruit finishes with a 70-90% red blush over a yellow background color. The flavor is sweet and very pleasant and texture is crisp.
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Bosc Golden Russet Custom Benchgraft
A russeted sport of Bosc.
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Amere de Berthencourt Custom Benchgraft
French bittersweet cider apple. Greenish white fruit with a pink blush.
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Brandy Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, perry pear with red blush over yellow skin. A cider pear with medium acid and low tannin.
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American Beauty Custom Benchgraft
A large apple with yellow skin with a deep red wash over most of it. Flesh is cream colored and coarse-grained with a sweet, aromatic flavor.
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Butt Custom Benchgraft
A small, yellow, slightly russetted, perry pear. A cider pear with moderate acid and tannin content. Produces a slightly astringent, fruity, good quality cider. Heavy producer. Excellent keeper.
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American Golden Russet Custom Benchgraft
A southern variety, Classic russet, cider apple. Flesh is dense and sugary.
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American Pippin Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large apple with dark, red fruit. Very good keeper and all around apple.
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Clapps Favorite Custom Benchgraft
A very large yellow-green pear, with a red blush. This pear is juicy, crisp and sweet. Fruit will ripen on the tree. Trees are very hardy and vigorous but can be susceptible to fire blight.
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Clapps Red Custom Benchgraft
Yellow fruit with bright red blush. A very productive, winter hard tree but susceptible to fire blight.
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Ananas Reinette Custom Benchgraft
Golden skin with russet freckles. Crisp, juicy flavor with intense, sweet, sharp pineapple flavor late in the season. Good for eating fresh, cooking and juice.
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Collette Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow pear with some red blushing. Flesh is smooth and aromatic.
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Anise Russet Custom Benchgraft
Small, dark red apple with gray russet which has very sweet, dry flesh
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Comice Custom Benchgraft
A large, green-yellow pear with a red blush and some russeting. Flesh is rich, juicy, firm, sweet, and fine grained.
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Anoka Custom Benchgraft
A large, greenish, yellow apple with some red blush. The flesh is white and dry with a sweet-sharp flavor.
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.