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Concorde Custom Benchgraft
Large green pear with pink blush. Tender, juicy flesh with excellent flavor. Stores well.
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Anton Polt Custom Benchgraft
A large, green apple. The flesh is white, crisp, and juicy with a mild tart flavor.
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Conference Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, green pear that has some russeting. The yellow flesh is sweet and juicy. A very good keeper but very susceptible to fire blight.
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Antonovka Custom Benchgraft
A very large green apple. Tart flesh. Immune to apple scab. Very hardy.
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Dana Hovey Custom Benchgraft
A small, green-yellow pear with some russeting. Flesh is juicy, sweet, and rich. Good keeper.
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Api Etoile Custom Benchgraft
A small apple with green skin which turns yellow with an orange blush when mature. Flesh is cream colored, fine-grained, and crisp with a sweet-tart flavor.
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Des Urbanistes Custom Benchgraft
A round, pale yellow, russeted pear. Flesh is buttery and white with a delicious flavor.
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Apricot Custom Benchgraft
A large, round, orange and red apple. The flesh has an orange like color with a mild apricot flavor.
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Douglas Custom Benchgraft
A yellow pear with white and juicy flesh. The flavor is very sweet.
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Arkansas Black Custom Benchgraft
Very large, attractive, red or striped fruit. Excellent for sauce, cooking to a juicy lemony puree. Eaten fresh, quite sweet, slightly scented. Good for home orchards, as it ripens continuously over a period of about four weeks. Tree is hardy, vigorous,...
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Arkcharm Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, yellow apple with a red blush when ripe. Flesh is white and juicy. Great eating apple.
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Flemish Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Large, yellow pear with a rich flavor. It is a great pear for eating or canning. This is a very winter hardy pear but is susceptible to fire blight.
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Arlet Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large fruit is bright red over rich yellow ground color. Crisp, sprightly flavor. Precocious tree bears early.
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Forelle Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized yellow pear that gets a red blush and speckles like a trout. Very good tasting pear but susceptible to fire blight.
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Aroma Custom Benchgraft
Ingrid Marie X Pilippa. A sweet fruity flavored desert apple. Flesh is juicy and rich.
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Gem Custom Benchgraft
A large, red blushed pear over green skin. Flesh is juicy and sweet. Very disease resistant.
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German A Custom Benchgraft
Unnamed seedling. A very large pear which grows up to one pound. Very good for eating and sauce. Not for canning.
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Art's Apple Custom Benchgraft
A seedling from Art Gowans Orchard. A late, crisp and tart treat apple.
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.