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Belle De Boskoop Custom Benchgraft
Large greenish-yellow fruit with rough skin and dark red blush on exposed fruits. Crisp, tangy, highly aromatic flesh. Outstanding, all-purpose, tart apple. Heavy bearing. Triploid.
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Moonglow Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, yellow pear. The white flesh is juicy, smooth with a mild flavor. Tastes better if stored for a little while. A great storing pear and resistant to fire blight.
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Belle Fille Custom Benchgraft
A large sweet-sharp French cider apple. Also used for sauce, pies and tarts.
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Normannischen Ciderbirne Custom Benchgraft
French perry pear used for cider. Cinnamon colored russet over green-yellow skin. Flesh is yellow-white, dry, and sprightliness flavor.
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Bellefleur Krasnyi Custom Benchgraft
Medium, round conic, ribbed apple with red/orange skin. Flesh is white with pink close to the skin, crisp, sweet, and aromatic. Hardy tree which bears huge crops.
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Nova Custom Benchgraft
Fruit is large, round, melting and very juicy. The fruit can be used either green or ripe.
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Ben Davis Custom Benchgraft
A large, red stripped apple with hard, course flesh. One of the best keeper apples.
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Berner Rosenapfel Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, yellowish green with heavy red blushing apple. Flesh is greenish, fine grained, juicy, sweet, sprite flavour. Dessert and apple.
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Parker Custom Benchgraft
A large yellow bronze fruit that is fine grained, juicy, and tender. An upright and vigorous grower. Pollinate with any other pear variety.
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Patten Custom Benchgraft
Very large fruit. Should be picked about one week before ripening and then allow to ripen. This is a fair canning pear.
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Bevan's Favorite Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin and bright red stripes. Flesh is crisp and firm with a subacid flavor.
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Bill's Red Flesh Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized, red apple. The flesh is red with a sweet flavor.
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Potomac Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, green pear with a subacid flavor. Tree is somewhat resistant to fire blight. Moderate keeper.
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Billy Bound Custom Benchgraft
A sweet, pleasant, lightly russeted apple of medium size to small. The fruit is blocky shape, uniform and scab free. The tree is large and spreading with a biennial bearing habit.
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Binet Rouge Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium French bittersweet cider apple. The flesh is pale yellowish, fine grained and firm. Hard. Somewhat dry, sweet, slightly bitter, flavourful and aromatic.
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Red d'Anjou Custom Benchgraft
A large, red pear with some russeting. Flesh is mild and sweet and gets better with some storage. Stores for a long time.
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Red Sensation Custom Benchgraft
A Bartlett type pear with a higher sugar content. The skin is very red which makes it a great dessert pear. Pollinator needed.
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Rescue Custom Benchgraft
Large elongated pear with yellow skin and some orange and red stripping/blush. Buttery flesh with a small core and sweet flavor. Self-fertile. Scab resistant.
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Rotkottis Frau Ostergotland Custom Benchgraft
A red fleshed pear.
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Black Gilliflower Custom Benchgraft
Large, long, conical, ribbed apple which, when highly colored, becomes almost purplish. Distinctive unusual flavor, reminiscent of Spitzenburg, rich and sweet, with relatively dry flesh. Hangs well on the tree but do not allow to become overripe as flesh...
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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.