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Raxao Custom Benchgraft
A sharp cider apple from Spain
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Razor Russet Custom Benchgraft
An attractive russet mutation of Golden Delicious. Spicier than standard Golden.
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Red Astrachan Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium, round to slightly flattened apple. Flesh is white with red tingers, juicy, crisp and tart. Not a good storer.
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Red Barron Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, red apple with tart, juicy flesh. A good keeper. Trees are productive and somewhat disease resistant.
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Red Berlepsch Custom Benchgraft
A red sport of Freiherr Von Berlepsch. Flesh is white with a fine texture. Gourmet quality apple.
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Red Butterscotch Custom Benchgraft
Small to medium size apple with orange/red striping over green. The flesh is firm and sweet. A good keeper.
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Red Cortland Custom Benchgraft
An improved version of Cortand
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Red Devil Custom Benchgraft
A large, mid, scarlet flushed skin with pronounced bloom on skin. A cross of Discovery x Kent. Flesh has a strong fruity taste, some strawberry flavor, crisp, juicy, pink stained flesh.
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Red Giant Crab Custom Benchgraft
Dark red fleshed apple that grows up to 3" in diameter. The flesh is firm and very tart.
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Red Gravenstein Custom Benchgraft
Improved red strain of Gravenstein. A large, crisp, juicy cooking apple with white flesh.
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Red Hook Custom Benchgraft
Flesh white or cream, with outer half pink when fully ripe. Very good eating apple. Not for processing.
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Red June Custom Benchgraft
A small, red apple Flesh is white with red stains, crisp, and juicy with a brisk, sub-acid flavor.
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Red Limbertwig Custom Benchgraft
A beautiful round and conical shaped apple with yellow flesh that is rich, aromatic, and juicy. All purpose. Keeps all winter. Weeping type.
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Red McIntosh Custom Benchgraft
An improved version of McIntosh
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Red Melba Custom Benchgraft
A sport of Melba which in turn is a McIntosh seedling. Yellow ground covered with pinkish blush and dark red shading. Highly aromatic with white flesh. Early bloomer. Susceptible to apple scab and premature drop.
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Red Rebel Custom Benchgraft
A medium size apple with yellow skin overlaid in deep red. Flesh is yellow and crisp with a subacid flavor.
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Red Ribston Custom Benchgraft
A redish sport of Ribston, a parent of Cox's Orange Pippin. Hard, crisp, fine grained, extremely sugary flesh. Not an attractive apple but fine, rich flavor and a pleasant aroma. Fair storage ability. Triploid.
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.