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Northfield Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large fruits, predominately red in color. Hangs well to the tree. Maintains its quality longer both on the tree and in storage. Heavy producer, immune to scab. Shape intermediate to flat, rectangular, asymetric: Skin whitish yellow , striped...
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Northland Crab Custom Benchgraft
A red crab apple that is used for dessert, jelly, sauce, pickly and cider.
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Northstar King Custom Benchgraft
Tart apple with a fruity flavor and hard, moderately breaking texture.
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Norton Melon Custom Benchgraft
An old variety that bears young and biennially. A very heavy bearer, needs thinning. Fruits very good quality for dessert or market. Medium large, skin yellow, red striped, round, oblate, conical with mild flavor. Tree round and spreading, slightly...
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Nova Easygro Custom Benchgraft
Fruit is large, oblate, 80% red stripe over greeninsh yellow ground. Stores well in cold storage. Flesh is snow white, firm, crisp, mildly sweet, slightly juicy. Slightly tough at picking but mellows in storage. Recommended for cooking, salads & eating...
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Novamac Custom Benchgraft
Flattened fruit with 70% red stripe on green background. Crisp, tender, fine-textured flesh. Slight mcIntosh flavor. Good quality.
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Novaspy Custom Benchgraft
A Northern Spy seedling. A medium to large red apple with a semi-sweet, crisp flesh.
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November Peach Custom Benchgraft
A large, conical, redish, pink colored apple. Great flavor with a mild peach aftertaste. A good keeper to December or January.
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Nutmeg Custom Benchgraft
A small, yellow apple with an orange blush and some russeting. The flesh is white, crisp, and juicy with a sweet, nutty flavor.
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Nutting Bumpas Custom Benchgraft
A seedling of Duchess of Oldenburg. Large, round-conic apple with yellow skin with light red stripping. Flesh is yellow-white, juicy, fine grained, and mildly subacid.
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NW Greening Custom Benchgraft
The big yellow pie apple of the north. It is the most popular non-red apple grown in the North Central States. Beneath its tough skin the greenish yellow flesh is firm, juicy and mildly tart. Best when cooked into sauce or made into pies as it does not...
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NY 35 (Bonkers) Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Liberty and Red Delicious. A large, red apple. Great eating apple and very disease resistant.
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NY 414-1 Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Liberty and Spur Mac. Similar to Macour but very disease resistant. A large apple with green skin covered with maroon. Flesh is crisp and juicy with sprightly taste.
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Oaken Pin Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow apple with a large red blush and some russeting. The flesh is yellow with red staining, tender and juicy. The flavor is very sweet and aromatic.
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Okanagan Custom Benchgraft
A medium-large red apple with some russeting. The flesh is cream colored with red staining. The flavor is very tart.
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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.