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Chestnut Crab Custom Benchgraft
A large crab that is good for cooking and desserts. The flesh is crisp, juicy and sweet and has a nut-like flavor. A very hardy tree and resistant to cedar-apple rust.
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Chieftain Custom Benchgraft
Medium size red apple with firm, juicy white flesh. Good keeper.
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Chisel Jersey Custom Benchgraft
A reddish bittersweet cider apple. Very vigorous tree.
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Chiver's Delight Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with greenish/yellow skin and red blush over most of the apple. Flesh is white, crisp, and juicy with a sweet/acidic flavor.
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Christmas Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
A small dessert apple with green/yellow skin with some red blushing and striping. Apples is conical shaped. The flesh is firm, yellow and aromatic.
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Cinnamon Spice Custom Benchgraft
Named for its cinnamon flavor, like an apple pie in a fresh apple. Medium size, wine red with some yellow back- ground color. Tree of medium vigor, with upright shoots.
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Clay Pot Custom Benchgraft
A very pretty apple. Nearly round, medium to large cherry red fruit. Tree has a unique weeping growth habit. It is both a spur and tip bearer. Crisp, sweet flesh with just a hint of tartness.
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Claygate Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large oblong-conic fruit with a few red stripes and russet dots or netting. Strong nutty taste, rich and aromatic. Firm flesh with typical dense russet texture. Grown in Edwardian &...
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Clifford Custom Benchgraft
A medium, red apple with red, crisp, juicy and tart flesh. Tartness mellows with storage.
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Clovis Custom Benchgraft
A sport of Golden Delicious. A medium sized apple with yelllow, russeted skin. The flesh is yellow and crisp with a spicy, sweet flavor.
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Coconut Crunch Custom Benchgraft
A hard, yellow apple which has the actual texture like a chunk of coconut. The flavor is mild but interesting. Tastes best after it has been stored for a while.
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Collaos Custom Benchgraft
A green, semi-sharp cide apple used in the making of Asturian cider. High tannin cider apple.
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Coloradona Custom Benchgraft
A small bittersweet cider apple with yellow skin covered almost completely with red stripes. Not for fresh eating.
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Connell Red Custom Benchgraft
It is red sport of Fireside which itself is a cross of McIntosh and Longfield. It is a large round apple with a solid red color and a sweet perfumed fragrance reminiscent of its parent McIntosh. An...
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Cornish Aromatic Custom Benchgraft
Rough golden apple with red stripping. Flesh is creamy, white, and fine grained with sweet subacid flavor.
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Cornish Gilliflower Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple with green skin and red blush. Flesh is yellow, firm, and dry with a sweet flavor.
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Cortland Custom Benchgraft
A McIntosh type with sweet vinous flavor, but not all of Macs aromatics. Very white crisp flesh; one of the best salad apples because it does not brown quickly. Hangs on the tree better than...
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Cotton Sweet Custom Benchgraft
A large apple with pale yellow skin. Flesh is white and tender with a very sweet flavor.
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Court Pendu Plat Custom Benchgraft
The name is derived from Corps Pendu, referring to the shortness of the stem. Skin is greenish-yellow becoming flushed with orange-red with short broken stripes. A good cropper with rich, aromatic...
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Cranberry Pippin Custom Benchgraft
Large, red apple that is resistant to scab and stores well. Flesh is soft, juicy with a good subacid 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.