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Rubinette Custom Benchgraft
A cross between Cox's Orange Pippin and Golden Delicious. A medium size fruit with bright red striping over golden ground color and slight russeting. Flesh has an excellent sweet/tart balance. Tree has some resistance to mildew and scab.
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Ruby Mac Custom Benchgraft
A superior sport of McIntosh with a deep red/purple skin.
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Rusty Coat Custom Benchgraft
Similar to Golden Russet except that the skin color is a little darker and the russeting on the skin is much heavier and the flesh dryer. Fine flavor. Excellent for drying and applesauce. Very good keeper. Some disease resistance.
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Sandow Custom Benchgraft
There is much similarity to its parent in shape, creamy flesh color and long keeping quality, but it has a fuller flavor, is hardier, and redder and less troubled by scab. Bright scarlet stripes and flush. Sweet, juicy melting flesh; definite flavor of...
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Sansa Custom Benchgraft
High quality dessert apple that resembles a Gala. Fireblight and scab resistant.
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Saxton Fallstripe Custom Benchgraft
Fruit medium, roundish, truncated, somewhat irregular and obscurely ribbed; surface greenish yellow, thinly washed with light red, with distinct dark red stripes and splashes. Flesh is yellowish, juicy, tender, mild subacid, good to very good.
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Sayaka Custom Benchgraft
A good choice for pies and sauce, Sayaka is an extremely large red apple with a tart refreshing flavor.
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Scarlet Nonpareil Custom Benchgraft
A medium size apple with yellow skin and red streaks. Flesh is yellow, juicy, and very sweet.
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Scarlet Gala Custom Benchgraft
Unusually bright red color distinguishes it from other Galas. It is a medium sized apple. Oval to round in shape and slightly taller than other strains. A vigorous grower with heavy and annual bearing habits. Early and adequate thinning help to attain...
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Scarlet O'Hara Custom Benchgraft
Excellent quality apple with crisp, sweet flesh. Hangs well on the tree. Shows resistance to scab.
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Scarlet Pearmain STP Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin and red blush. Flesh is yellow with red staining by the skin, crisp, juicy, and sweet. Good keeper.
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Scarlet Pimpernel Custom Benchgraft
Sharp yet plenty of sweetness; juicy, soft, melting flesh. Best eaten from tree.
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Scarlet Spire Custom Benchgraft
Columnar tree. Skin color is bright red over green. Great eating apple.
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Scarlet Surprise Custom Benchgraft
Beautiful bright red flesh! Spectacular deep pink blossoms in spring followed by reddish foliage. Medium-sized, red-skinned fruit is sweet and flavorful.
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Scott Winter Custom Benchgraft
an attractive red apple well-suited for cooking when underripe due to its high acid content. When fully ripe, it is a very fine dessert apple with a well-balanced flavor. Fruit size is about medium with a slightly conical form. The thin, smooth skin is...
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Secor Custom Benchgraft
A red striped apple with juicy, firm flesh. Good keeper.
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.