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Stone Custom Benchgraft
A red striped apple with sweet, yellow flesh. Very flavorful. Very hardy.
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Strawberry Parfait Custom Benchgraft
A striped red over ivory skin apple with red spashes like strawberries in vanilla ice cream in the flesh. Hints of strawberry in the aroma and taste. Strawberry Parfait was originally known as NJ46. It is a cross of Mollies Delicious and July Red.
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Suiki Custom Benchgraft
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Summer Banana Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, yellow apple with some red striping or blush. Flesh is firm, juicy, and has a banana flavor.
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Summer Champion Custom Benchgraft
Large red fruit. Tree is an early bearer
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Summer Cider Custom Benchgraft
A chance seeding found in a VA orchard by Tim Strickler. Best used as an early cider apple. Susceptible to cedar apple rust.
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Summer Glow Custom Benchgraft
A variation on McIntosh
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Summer Orange Custom Benchgraft
The fruit is large, round, and light greenish-yellow in color with dark specks. Great for apple pie.
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Summer Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
One of two apples given "best" rating in Beachs Apples of New York. Mild, rich, excellent flavor. Tree a weak grower and fireblight susceptible.
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Summer Rambo Custom Benchgraft
Large, striped red apple with juicy aromatic flesh. A great eating and a good for sauce. Tends to be a very vigorous growing tree with some disease resistance.
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Summer Rose Custom Benchgraft
A green and yellow striped apple with a red blush. Good eat apple with white flesh with subacid flavor. A poor keeper.
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Summer Scarlet Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, shining red apple, firm, crisp, with fine-flavored juice.
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Summer Treat Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Mollies Delicious. Fruits are large to very large, of angular, oblong-conic shape, with glossy skin blushed 70-100% brilliant red. The coarse, cream colored flesh is crisp, sweet, and good fresh from the tree when the fruitsare ripe. Fruits...
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Summerred Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, bright red apple. Flesh has a sweet, crisp flavor. Does not keep well.
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SunCrisp Custom Benchgraft
Golden skin with an orange blush. Sweet tangy flesh
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Sundowner (Cripps Red) Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Golden Delicious and Lady Williams. A medium, red apple with crispy, sweet, white flesh. Great keeper.
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Sunrise (Canada) Custom Benchgraft
Yellow-Red fruit. Unique pear-grape flavor. Good eating apple, ripens midseason. Hardy to -40 degrees.
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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.