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Taunton Cross Custom Benchgraft
A medium size that is round to flattened. The skin is pale greenish yellow over which is a maroon wash marked with a pattern of darker stripes. Sometimes russeted. The flesh is white, often with a pink stain, coarse grained and crisp. Moderately sweet...
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Teorica Custom Benchgraft
A bittersharp cider apple.
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Tetofski Custom Benchgraft
Small, flavorful, can be used for cooking before ripe and eating when ripe
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Theilen Custom Benchgraft
A chance seedling. Top rated in flavor. One of the juiciest apples ever. Consistent bearer and bears young.
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Thick Banana Custom Benchgraft
A chance seedling. Yellow apple with yellow flesh and a thick skin. The taste is similar to Golden Delicious.
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Thornberry Crab Custom Benchgraft
Translucent yellow skin reveals the raspberry-pink flesh inside. Unique berry flavor; sprightly and refreshing.
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Tioga Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Sutton's Beauty and Northern Spy. A large, green/gold apple. Flavor is mild and mellow.
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Titus Pippin Custom Benchgraft
Orange blushed, orange, waxy skin. Large, open core. Vigorous tree is a heavy annual bearer.
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Tolman Sweet Custom Benchgraft
Skin pale, yellow, sometimes flushed, russet lines. Small to medium uniform fruit has white, very sweet, hard flesh. Long lived, very hardy tree is early to bear and productive. Once again in favor for it is naturally sweet applesauce - no sugar needed...
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Tom Putt Custom Benchgraft
A medium, green-yellow apple with red blush. Flesh is juicy, crisp and acidic.
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Tompkins King Custom Benchgraft
Fruit large to very large. Skin smooth, waxy yellow washed with orange red, Flesh yellowish, coarse, crisp, tender, flavor subacid. Good for cooking when green and excellent for eating when handsomely striped. Water core (translucent flesh) sweetens some...
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Trailman Custom Benchgraft
A green with red overlay crab apple. Flesh is crisp and juicy.
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Transcendent Crab Custom Benchgraft
A large variety of Siberian crab with red-orange skin. Flesh is yellow and juicy.
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Tremletts Bitter Custom Benchgraft
A red, medium size, bittersweet cider apple.
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Triumph Custom Benchgraft
A cross between Honeycrisp and Liberty. A medium sized, red apple with a pleasantly tart, well balanced flavor. Very disease resistant.
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Tumanga Custom Benchgraft
A yellow/orange apple that resemble Cox Orange Pippin. Flesh is tender, fruity, sweet flavor. 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.