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Luscious Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized bright yellow fruit that is juicy and sweet. Glossy green foliage that has a good red fall color. An excellent dessert pear that is fireblight resistant.
Out of stock$15.00 -
Beauty of Bath Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium, yellow with red flushing apple. Flesh is white, crisp and sweet/tart flavor.
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Magness Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Giant Seckel and Comice. A medium sized pear with green/yellow skin and some russeting. Flesh is soft, juicy, and not too gritty. Flavor is sweet. Good keeper. Resistant to fireblight.
Out of stock$15.00 -
Bedan Custom Benchgraft
Sweet to bittersweet cider variety. Very productive tree with some resistance to fire blight.
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Maxine Custom Benchgraft
A large yellow pear. Flesh is firm, crisp, juicy and white. Resistant to fire blight.
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Belle de Boskoop Custom Benchgraft
Large greenish-yellow fruit with rough skin and dark red blush on exposed fruits. Crisp, tangy, highly aromatic flesh. Outstanding, all-purpose, tart apple. Heavy bearing. Triploid.
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Moonglow Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, yellow pear. The white flesh is juicy, smooth with a mild flavor. Tastes better if stored for a little while. A great storing pear and resistant to fire blight.
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Belle Fille Custom Benchgraft
A large sweet-sharp French cider apple. Also used for sauce, pies and tarts.
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Normannischen Ciderbirne Custom Benchgraft
French perry pear used for cider. Cinnamon colored russet over green-yellow skin. Flesh is yellow-white, dry, and sprightliness flavor.
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Bellefleur Krasnyi Custom Benchgraft
Medium, round conic, ribbed apple with red/orange skin. Flesh is white with pink close to the skin, crisp, sweet, and aromatic. Hardy tree which bears huge crops.
Out of stock$15.00 -
Out of stock$15.00 -
Out of stock$15.00 -
Nova Custom Benchgraft
Fruit is large, round, melting and very juicy. The fruit can be used either green or ripe.
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Ben Davis Custom Benchgraft
A large, red stripped apple with hard, course flesh. One of the best keeper apples.
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Olympic Custom Benchgraft
A very large, Asian pear. Flesh is sweet, crisp, course, and juicy. Cold hardy and fire blight resistant.
Out of stock$15.00 -
Benham Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with green/yellow skin and a little red blush. Flesh is yellow, juicy, tender and fine-grained.
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Orcas Custom Benchgraft
Large, yellow pear with a red blush. Flesh is very flavorful. Scab resistant.
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Benoni Custom Benchgraft
An early season variety originating in Dedham, Massachusetts around 1832. A high-quality dessert apple with smooth yellowish-orange skin mostly covered with bright red and deep carmine striping. The yellow flesh is fine-grained, crisp and juicy.
Out of stock$15.00 -
Out of stock$15.00 -
Berner Rosenapfel Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, yellowish green with heavy red blushing apple. Flesh is greenish, fine grained, juicy, sweet, sprite flavour. Dessert and apple.
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.