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Paradise Custom Benchgraft
A large, round, green apple. Flesh is fine grained, juicy, and sweet.
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Paradisiaca Atrosanguinea Custom Benchgraft
A red, cider crabapple with high antioxidants.
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Parkland Custom Benchgraft
Similar to Norland but keeps better. Small fruit on a compact tree. Good for fresh eating and cooking.
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Patricia Custom Benchgraft
A seedling of McIntosh. A large, green-yellow apple with a red blush. Hardier than McIntosh
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Paulared Custom Benchgraft
A very white-fleshed, juicy apple of good all-purpose quality.
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Pawpaw Sweet Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized, red apple that is an excellent for baking and desert.
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Peace Garden Custom Benchgraft
A very cold hardy apple. Has a red striped skin over a very juicy flesh. Great keeper.
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Peasgood Nonesuch Custom Benchgraft
Large pale yellow-green apple that color deepens to orange-yellow with red stripes and some russeting. A very good baking apple.
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Peck Pleasant Custom Benchgraft
A medium size apple with green skin that turns yellow when mature with a red blush. Flesh is yellow and crisp with an aromatic flavor.
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Pendragon Custom Benchgraft
A red fleshed sharp cider apple.
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Pepa Custom Benchgraft
A sweet cider apple.
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Pepin Shafrannyi Custom Benchgraft
A small apple with yellow skin and dark red blush. Flesh is cream colored, firm, crisp and juicy with a sharp flavor.
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Perrine Yellow Transparent Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow apple that is very similar but larger than Yellow Transparent. It has better resistance to fire blight than Yellow Transparent. This tree is not a pollinizer.
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Perry Russet Custom Benchgraft
It is a large yellow green apple often with shiny skin and only occasionally covered with a fine russet. It has juicy fine grained yellow flesh, rich and acidic in flavor and excellent for pies. Described in "Horticulturist" in 1862 by a grower in...
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Pewaukee Custom Benchgraft
Medium/large apple with firm white flesh, coarse and juicy. Good fresh eating and cooking. Keeps well.
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Piel de Sapo Custom Benchgraft
A semi-sharp, russeted Spanish cider apple.
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Pierce Pasture Custom Benchgraft
Very large apple with coarse yellowish flesh, excellent flavor. Good keeper.
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Pigeonette Custom Benchgraft
Dessert apple
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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.