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Turley Winesap Custom Benchgraft
Round, dull red fruit. Triploid. Resembles Stayman, but is more crack resistant and eating quality is not as good. Stores well.
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Twenty Ounce Pippin Custom Benchgraft
Very large, striped red over a greenish background color. Flesh white and semi- firm. Excellent mid-season cooking apple also good for dessert. Medium sized tree comes into bearing young.
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Tydemans Early Custom Benchgraft
Early dessert apple
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Tydemans Late Orange Custom Benchgraft
Yellowish flesh has rich Cox-like flavor with a nice sugar-acid balance. Skin gold with green and red blush and conical shape. Late ripening.
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Uralian Butter Custom Benchgraft
A large, greenish, yellow apple with some russeting. Best in flavor with unique buttery aftertaste. Early bearer.
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Utter Custom Benchgraft
Yellow skinned apple with a very pleasent flavor. Not a good storage apple.
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Valentine Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, green-yellow apple with a red blush. Flesh is white, crisp, and sweet. Very hardy.
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Vandevere Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large sized; crisp and juicy, sweet; good for cooking all winter
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Victoria Limbertwig Custom Benchgraft
A high quality dessert apple with a round shape and attractive purple skin covered with large white dots. The flesh is firm, crisp, yellowish that is highly flavorful and extremely juicy. A very good keeper.
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Viking Custom Benchgraft
Medium size, glossy, smooth fruit with 60% rich red over green. Fine grained, white flesh. Tart flavor.
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Vilberie Custom Benchgraft
A small, green bittersweet cider apple.
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Vine Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, round apple with yellow skin that is almost completely red blushed with russetted lenticels. Flesh is yellow, crisp, sweet, and juicy. A wiry tree that resembles a grapevine. Good keeper.
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Virginia Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, sometimes not symmetrically shaped; good keeper
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Virginia Crab Custom Benchgraft
1.5" flattened dull red crab apple. It makes a clear dry cinnamon flavored cider.
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Virginia Gold Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Golden Delicious and Albemarle Pippin. A large, yellow apple with a red blush. Flesh is crisp, juicy, and mildly subacid. Flavor gets better in storage.
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.