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Porter's Perfection Custom Benchgraft
English cider apple. Striped red on cream. Tart flavor. Bittersharp juice with high acid and tannin.
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Pound Sweet Custom Benchgraft
Very large, amber to golden fruit when fully ripe. Fine eating but very best when baked.
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Prairie Spy Custom Benchgraft
Large fruit, crisp & juicy with excellent flavor which develops and improves while in storage. Keeps until Spring. Tree bears very young. Some resistance to scab and cedar apple rust.
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Priscilla Custom Benchgraft
A seedling of Starking Delicious. A medium size, yellow apple that's most covered with a red blush. Flesh is crisp, coarse, and white with a good flavor. Disease resistant.
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Pristine Custom Benchgraft
A very sweet, yellow skinned apple. It is very similar to Yellow Transparent.
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Puget Spice Custom Benchgraft
A bittersharp, red crabapple that is highly disease resistant.
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Pumpkin Russet Custom Benchgraft
A large, russeted apple. The flesh is crisp and juicy with an mild, sweet flavor. An all purpose apple.
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Purple Passion Custom Benchgraft
A large apple with deep red to purple skin. The flesh is deep red to purple and juicy with a very sharp flavor.
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Purpurroter Cousinot Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large apple with red skin. The white to light yellow flesh has an aromatic and sweet flavor. Spur bearing.
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Quebec Belle Custom Benchgraft
Open-pollinated seedling of Northern Spy. Red fruit. Resembles Delicious in appearance and Northern Spy in quality. Keeps well. Hardy to -50 degrees.
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Queen Cox Custom Benchgraft
An improved strain of Cox's Orange Pippin with better disease resistance, tasty, and cropping.
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Quinte Custom Benchgraft
A medium-sized apple with yellow skin with dark red flushes. Flesh is white and tender.
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Ralls Janet Custom Benchgraft
Small to medium fruit. Yellow or greenish skin flushed, matted and streaked with red. Firm, fine, crisp, tender, pleasantly aromatic, white flesh. Good keeper when stored properly.
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Ramsdell Sweet Custom Benchgraft
Also called English Sweet. An attractive red appple of good size and very good quality. In season from mid-autumn to mid-winter. The tree is a pretty good grower and an early bearer. Nearly annual bearer of not very uniform in size and quality fruits...
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Raven Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium, red fleshed, balanced, cider apple. Not a good keeper. Great for a bright red juice.
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.