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Honeysweet Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large sized, golden, russetted pear. Flesh is smooth, buttery, firm and sweet. Resists fire blight and leaf spotting.
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Baldwin Custom Benchgraft
Large winter apple with tough, smooth, bright red skin with white stars. Good eating apple with crisp, juicy, somewhat aromatic yellowish flesh. Tree tend to be long lived.
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Hosui Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, brownish-orange fruit. Juicy, sweet, fine grained, crisp, off-white flesh. High sugar content. Very vigorous tree.
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Hudar Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, yellow pear. Flesh is sweet and juicy. Cold hardy.
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Bancroft Custom Benchgraft
Quality fair when ripe, improves with storage. Exceptionally good keeper.
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Japanese Golden Russet Custom Benchgraft
A russeted asian pear.
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Kalle Custom Benchgraft
Red spot of Clapp's Favorite that is a natural semidwarf. Large reddish purple pear with sweet flavor. Not a keeper.
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Barry Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large fruit with an intense solid dark red skin. Lasts 3 months in storage.
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Karls Favorite Custom Benchgraft
Yellow skin with slight russet. Tender, melting flesh with excellent flavor. Some resistance to fire blight.
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Bastian Orange Flesh Custom Benchgraft
A small apple with orange skin and red stripes. Flesh is orange and dense with a very sweet and slightly tart flavor.
Out of stock$15.00 -
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Batul Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin and an orange blush. The flesh is crisp and juicy with a very sweet flavor.
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Kosui Custom Benchgraft
Yellow-brown fruit. Flesh is firm, crisp and juicy with a sweet, low acid flavor. Upright, vigorous tree is fire blight resistant.
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Beacon Custom Benchgraft
Large, red apple with soft, sweet flesh. Good apple for eating fresh or cooking.
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Lincoln Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow pear. A good eating and canning pear.
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Beautiful Arcade Custom Benchgraft
A yellow apple with spashes of red. The firm, yellow flesh has a sweet taste. Not a good keeper. Can be used as a rootstock.
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.