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White Pippin Custom Benchgraft
A late season ripening apple. Good production and good flavor for eating.
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White Winter Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
Tree vigorous. Fruit medium to nearly large, uniform, pale greenish, usually with one side blushed red. Flesh firm, crisp. Dessert apple, mildly subacid and pleasantly aromatic. Once a very popular apple in the Napa Valley, well adapted to coastal...
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White Wolf River Custom Benchgraft
Sport of Wolf River
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Whitney Crab Custom Benchgraft
Round to conic crab apple; often larger than a golf ball. Light greenish yellow with red blush or stripes. Sweet, juicy, yellowish flesh.
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Wickson Crab Custom Benchgraft
Small yellow and red fruit. Very sweet. Highly flavored juice.
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William Crump Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Cox's Orange Pippin and Worcester Pearmain. A medium to large, red apple. Flesh is sweet with a pineapple flavor.
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Williams Custom Benchgraft
Beautiful bright red fruit. Red tinged firm flesh is moderately crisp and juicy yet mildly subacid. Good dessert apple.
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Williams Favorite Custom Benchgraft
Beautiful bright red fruit. Red tinged firm flesh is moderately crisp and juicy yet mildly subacid. Good dessert apple.
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Williams Pride Custom Benchgraft
Fruit is medium in size slightly conic in shape with a rich aromatic flavor. Apples are 70-80% red with excellent eating quality. It has inbred resistance to apple scab and cedar apple rust. Good resistance to fireblight and powdery mildew. Stores...
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Willow Twig Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple with green/yellow skin with some red and russet patches. Flesh is greenish yellow, coarse, and firm with a subacid flavor. Excellent keeper.
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Windham Russet Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium-sized, roundish apple with complete russeted, brown, bumpy skin. Excellent eating and dessert apple
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Winecrisp Custom Benchgraft
Medium red apple with crisp sweet flesh. Tree is disease resistant. Good keeper.
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Winekist Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red apple. The flesh is all red and very tart.
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Winesap Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, dark red apple. The yellow flesh is crisp, juicy, and sweet. The wine-like flavor comes from the contrast of its sugar content and high tartness. Good keeper and high producer.
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Winter Banana Custom Benchgraft
Fruit large, clear pale yellow, waxy finish, one side usually blushed with a delicate pink. A gorgeous apple. Flesh moderately firm, a little coarse, tender, mild, subacid, characteristically aromatic. Good quality. Better eating than cooking (too mild).
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Winter Joy Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized greenish/yellow apple with white flesh. It is a tart eating and cooking apple.
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Winter Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple with green skin and red on sun side with red stripes on rest. Flesh is cream colored, crisp, juicy, and sweet.
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.