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Somerset of Maine Custom Benchgraft
Large bright-red-striped and splotched late summer dessert apple. Excellent eating apple.
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Somerset Redstreak Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, bittersweet cider apple with red streaked and russeted green skin.
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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.
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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...
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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.
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Spice Russet Custom Benchgraft
Good for fresh eating and pies.
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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.
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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.
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Spokane Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Very large fruit to 2 lbs. Or more. Variable in shape. Good for drying, cooking, and eating fresh.
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Spur McIntosh Custom Benchgraft
A spur bearing version of McIntosh
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Starkey Custom Benchgraft
A medium size apple with yellow/green skin covered with red stripping. Flesh is firm, juicy, and sweet/tart flavor.
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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...
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State Fair Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, red/orange apple with juicy sweet flesh. This is a very good eating apple.
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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.
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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.
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Stoke Red Custom Benchgraft
A small, yellow apple with red striping. An English bittersharp cider apple with soft, juicy, white flesh.
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.