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Sekai Ichi Custom Benchgraft
Color of fruit varies form pale pink to darker red with red stripes. Sometimes solid red in the sun. Crisp, breaking, juicy flesh. Very sweet fine mild flavor. If tree is properly thinned, apples reportedly weigh close to 2 lbs.
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Senshu Custom Benchgraft
Fuji cross whose flavor and size qualities are rated excellent. Reported to be very disease resistant. Tree is moderately spreading somewhat like Fuji.
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Shamrock Custom Benchgraft
Developed as a substitute for Granny Smith for areas where Grannys cannot be ripened. A Spur McIntosh x Spur Golden Delicious cross. Medium size fruit is very similar in appearance to Granny Smith. Flesh is creamy light green and has a coarse texture...
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Sharon Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with green/yellow skin with red blush and some red stripes. Flesh is tender, juicy, and sweet.
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Sheriff Custom Benchgraft
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Sherry Custom Benchgraft
Fruit will hang on tree all winter. Poor quality when picked, but improves to good quality after storing for several months. Annual heavy crop.
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Shiawassee Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Medium size, round, greenish-yellow fruit with juicy, white flesh and mild sweet flavor. Comes in early in the season when eating apples are scarce.
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Shizuka Custom Benchgraft
Cross of Golden Delicious and Indo. Sister to the Mutsu apple. A large, yellow apple with some orange blush. Flesh is firm, sweet and mild flavored. Good keeper.
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Sierra Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Large, handsome apple with thin green and yellow skin, striped or blushed red. A favorite apple from Boonville, CA. Juicy, very crisp and tart. A good seller in farm markets and an excellent keeper. The tree is compact.
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Signe Tillisch Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, yellow apple with some orange blush. Flesh is soft, sweet and flavorful.
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Sinta Custom Benchgraft
Golden Delicious and Grimes Golden cross. Resembles Golden Delicious. Medium sized fruits are pale yellow, sometimes almost white with a pinkish blush in the sun. Crisp, juicy, deep cream flesh; sweet, aromatic flavor superior to either parent. Tree...
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Sissipuk Custom Benchgraft
A red flesh crab apple.
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Smokehouse Custom Benchgraft
Flushed, dull red over greenish yellow. Flesh crisp, yellowish, moderately fine-grained. Fresh cider flavor. Very good quality cooking, eating, and baking apple. Keeps well through March. Vigorous tree. Bears young, quite productive and a reliable...
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SnowSweet Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red apple that is sweet with a slight tart balance and rich overtones. The flesh is firm to crisp.
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Solarina Custom Benchgraft
A semi-sharp Spanish cider apple.
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.