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Crimson Crisp Custom Benchgraft
Medium, red apple with crisp, tart flesh. Great eating apple and long keeper.
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Crimson King Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, red apple. It produces an acidic juice with no astringency and makes a light, fruity cider. A good tart eating apple too.
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Crimson Spire Custom Benchgraft
Columnar tree. Skin color is bright red over green. Great eating apple.
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Crimson Topaz Custom Benchgraft
A medium size apple with yellow skin that is overlain with a crimson blush. The flesh is crisp and delicious. Trees are resistant to scab and mildew.
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Cristalina Custom Benchgraft
A semi-sharp Spanish cider apple.
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Dayton Custom Benchgraft
A large, brilliant red apple with crisp, juicy, sweet-tart, and very flavorful flesh. Immune to scab and resistant to both mildew and cedar rust.
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Deacon Jones Custom Benchgraft
Very large, yellow apple with red splashes. The flesh is yellow, firm and juicy with a mild flavor. Good keeper.
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Dolgo Crab Custom Benchgraft
Small, crimson color crab apple. Flesh is very flavorful and makes a good ruby red jelly. It usually sets huge crops annually
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Domaines Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, French bitter cider apple.
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Double Red Duchess Custom Benchgraft
Same coloring as Duchess of Oldenburg. Tart apple that is good for eating, pies and applesauce. Not a good keeper.
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Doug's Delicious Custom Benchgraft
Found growing in Oconto County, WI. It has all the characteristics of early Delicious types. Better flavor, except it ripens earlier and is more cold hardy for Northern climates.
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Dufflin Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium, yellow apple with some russeting. Flesh is yellowish, soft and very sweet. A bittersharp cider apple.
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Duke of Devonshire Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, russeted apple. Flesh is cream colored, fine-grained and crisp with a sweet-sharp flavor. Resistant to scab.
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Dunning Custom Benchgraft
Dark red apple with a very sweet, white flesh.
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Dyer Custom Benchgraft
Medium size apple is greenish yellow with a shade of red and some russeting. Flesh has a spicy flavor.
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Dymock Red Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, bittersweet cider and dessert apple. Flesh is white and a dryish.
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Early Cortland Custom Benchgraft
Fruit similar to Cortland, but tarter. Stores well for an early apple. Tree a vigorous grower.
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Early Grannie Custom Benchgraft
A sport of Granny Smith that requires only 165 frost free days to mature.
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Eastman Sweet Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, greenish/yellow apple with red stripes. The flesh is yellow, firm and juicy with a sweet, aromatic flavor.
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Edelborsdorfer Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium size pale yellow apple with red blush. It has white, crisp, juicy and sweet and hints of cinnamon flesh. Very hardy.
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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.