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Red Sauce Custom Benchgraft
A large, round, yellow apple with a 90% red blush. Apple is sour with pink stained flesh.
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Red Sheepnose Custom Benchgraft
A very elongated and tapered apple with yellow, red skin. Tart early but becomes sweeter the longer it is left on the tree.
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Red St. Lawrence Custom Benchgraft
A red sport of St. Lawrence. A very good desert apple with white flesh with red hues throughout. Not a great keeper.
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Red Vein Crab Custom Benchgraft
A large crabapple with deep red/purple skin. The flesh is dark red with a tangy flavor. A beautiful tree. Makes great apple sauce.
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Red Winter Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
A high quality dessert apple. Fruit is medium to large and very oblong or conical. Smooth yellow flesh, skin covered with deep purplish-maroon. Tender,juicy and sweet
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Redfield Custom Benchgraft
Unusual cross between Wolf River and Niedzwetzskayana red crab. Medium to large, waxy pink to red fruit. The deep red flesh is slightly dry, making it a superb baking apple. Produces an exceptional jelly or blood red cider. Not a fresh eating apple. ...
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Redford Custom Benchgraft
Wolf River x Niedzweckyana. Medium to large size fruit, red flesh. Partial tip bearer.
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Redfree Custom Benchgraft
Medium red apple with crisp, juicy flesh that has a distinctive sweet yet tart flavor. Tree has good disease resistance.
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Redgold Custom Benchgraft
This one gets a blue ribbon for being the sweetest tasting apple ever developed. Particularly fine for desserts. This variety is particularly strong flower with good disease resistance. Keeps for weeks in the refrigerator.
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Redmax Custom Benchgraft
The Redmax is a sport variety of McIntosh apples which reddens more. The flesh is firm, juicy, and white.
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Redwell Custom Benchgraft
Cream-colored mild flesh; good for eating, baking and sauce. Keeps until January in storage. Tree has strong framework and bears annually.
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Regent Custom Benchgraft
Medium size fruit. Bright red over yellow. Very pleasing flavor and texture. Honeyed, plenty of acidity, crisp, crackling, juicy flesh. Cooked keeps shape, light flavour, sweet, fruity. Delicately favored, all purpose apple. High dessert quality does not...
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Reine des Hatives Custom Benchgraft
A medium-large green apple with a pink blush. Mainly used for cider and desserts. The flesh is crisp and white with a bittersweet flavor.
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Reine des Pommes Custom Benchgraft
A small bittersweet cider apple with red skin.
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Reine des Reinettes Custom Benchgraft
Fruit has dull yellow skin, flushed and flecked red with dots and patches of russet. The white flesh is tender and dense with a sweet subacid flavor.
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Reineta do Caravia Custom Benchgraft
A semi-sharp Spanish cider apple. It is disease resistant.
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Reinette Clochard Custom Benchgraft
A traditional French sweet-flavored dual-purpose apple. Good keeper.
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Reinette Gris Custom Benchgraft
Medium size apple, pale green skin with a russet coat and first white flesh. Sharp, dry, sweet, crisp texture and flavor. Excellent keeper.
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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.