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Old Church Custom Benchgraft
Flavorful but very tart.Â
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Old Nonpareil Custom Benchgraft
Small, greenish-yellow fruit, turning to orange, usually with some russet. Small, not especially attractive. Outstanding flavor for eating out of hand. Makes an excellent single-variety cider. Spur bearing.
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Oliver Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large fruit with smooth, waxy, golden yellow skin covered with crimson and streaked darker red. Large russet dots. Rich, spritely flavor. Some problems with fire blight and crown gall. Very rare.
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Oneida Custom Benchgraft
A unique apple brought to the Green Bay, WI area from New York. The fruit is small, egg-shaped, golden yellow with a slight russeting. Flesh is very sweet and good flavor. Exceptional for drying. Consistent bearer.
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Opalescent Custom Benchgraft
Large fruit with smooth skin entirely covered with dark red, occasionally shading to purplish with splashes of carmine. Firm, juicy, mildly subacid, yellow flesh.
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Orenco Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large fruit with bright red skin. Tender, crisp, juicy white flesh. Very sweet and piquant flavor. Light bearer. Must be picked as soon as it is ripe. Scab resistant.
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Orin Custom Benchgraft
Yellow green skinned fruit with dark green lenticels, medium sized to large fruit. Sweet with some tangy tropical overtones.
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Oriole Custom Benchgraft
Yellow skin, striped red. Parentage: Yellow Transparent, Liveland Raspberry. An excellent quality dessert or cooking apple. Tree is extremely productive, and extremely to very hardy.
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Orleans Reinette Custom Benchgraft
Round, flattened, greenish-yellow fruit with some cinnamon russet in most cases. Flesh is creamy white, firm and fine-textured and very juicy with a taste first of sweet oranges followed by a nutty flavor. Trees are vigorous, heavily spurred.
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Ortley Custom Benchgraft
Large, long, conical, pale greenish yellow fruit with deep cavity. Thin, tough, smooth, waxy skin. Crisp, juicy, yellowish white flesh.
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Otterson Crab Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, redfleshed cider apple.
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Oxheart Pippin Custom Benchgraft
Choice eating; deep flavor with a lot of juice; excellent keeper
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Ozark Gold Custom Benchgraft
Golden Delicious type but earlier, firmer (perhaps due to Ben Davis parentage) and less russeting. Flavor is sweet, honeyed, very juicy with little acidity.
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P.R. John Custom Benchgraft
A round, medium to large sized apple with deep red colored skin. Excellent flavor leaving you wanting for more. Ranked very high on taste tests. Good grower and bearer.
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Pacific Gala Custom Benchgraft
A mutation of Royal Gala. A red, sweet apple that stores well. Colors uniformly and early and retains a strong stripe. Holds well on the tree for several days after ripening. Sweet flavor is retained in storage.
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Padley's Pippin Custom Benchgraft
A small apple with greenish-yellow skin and an orange blush with some russeting. The flesh is yellow and juicy with a sweet and brisk flavor.
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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.