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Custom Benchgraft

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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.

  • Sops of Wine Custom Benchgraft

    Sops of Wine Custom Benchgraft

    Old English culinary and cider apple. Fruit medium, skin greenish yellow flushed purple red. Flesh soft, fine stained pink; flavor aromatic, subacid, vinous. Season early to mid.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Spartan Custom Benchgraft

    Spartan Custom Benchgraft

    Beautiful medium size dark red almost mahogany dessert quality apple. Pure white flesh, crisp sweet with some acidity. Firmer than McIntosh. Highly aromatic fine flavor. Superb for eating fresh. Better keeper and shipper than McIntosh. Keeps through...

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Spencer Custom Benchgraft

    Spencer Custom Benchgraft

    Large nearly solid red or red striped over green fruit. Very sweet with crisp juicy flesh. Fine flavor. Core smaller than McIntosh. Excellent eating quality. Vigorous upright spreading tree. On Professor Ways list of 20 favorite dessert apples.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Spigold Custom Benchgraft

    Spigold Custom Benchgraft

    A very large yellow apple with firm, very juicy flesh and aromatic spicy flavor. It is hard to believe that such a large apple can taste so good. Triploid.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Splendour Custom Benchgraft

    Splendour Custom Benchgraft

    Medium to large apple with dull, pinkish red skin with some russetting. Firm, crisp, yellow flesh with a mild but distinctive, sweet flavor. Good keeper.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Spur Red Gold Custom Benchgraft

    Spur Red Gold 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.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • St. Cecilia Custom Benchgraft

    St. Cecilia Custom Benchgraft

    A seedling of Cox's Orange Pippin. A high-quality dessert apple. Yellow-green skin overlaid with shiny deep red. Flesh has an intense, sweet, crisp, juicy flavor. Good keeper.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • St. Edmunds Russet Custom Benchgraft

    St. Edmunds Russet Custom Benchgraft

    The best early russet. Flat uniform-sized apple covered with a smooth pale fawn- colored russet in our climate. Very juicy, crisp, yellowish flesh, great for cider as well as eating.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Starkey Custom Benchgraft

    Starkey Custom Benchgraft

    A medium size apple with yellow/green skin covered with red stripping. Flesh is firm, juicy, and sweet/tart flavor.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Starr Custom Benchgraft

    Starr Custom Benchgraft

    Very large yellow green fruit with smooth skin and faint blush. Yellow flesh is tender, crisp, juicy, sprightly subacid, aromatic. Very good in quality, especially for dessert use. Moderately vigorous tree bears at a young age. Tree bears young, usually...

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Stayman Winesap Custom Benchgraft

    Stayman Winesap Custom Benchgraft

    Fruit medium to large, dull red bloom over greenish base, striped red in less highly-colored fruit. Flesh yellowish, firm, tender, juicy, pleasantly subacid.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Stembridge Cluster Custom Benchgraft

    Stembridge Cluster Custom Benchgraft

    A small-medium, yellow apple with red stipes on the sun side. The flesh is white, firm, and juicy. It is a bittersweet cider apple but can also be used for baking.

    $15.00
    Out of stock