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Parker Custom Benchgraft
A large yellow bronze fruit that is fine grained, juicy, and tender. An upright and vigorous grower. Pollinate with any other pear variety.
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Patten Custom Benchgraft
Very large fruit. Should be picked about one week before ripening and then allow to ripen. This is a fair canning pear.
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Bevan's Favorite Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin and bright red stripes. Flesh is crisp and firm with a subacid flavor.
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Pineapple Custom Benchgraft
Large, yellow pear with red blush. Flesh is crisp with a pineapple flavor. Fire blight resistant. Requires only 200 chill hours.
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Bill's Red Flesh Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized, red apple. The flesh is red with a sweet flavor.
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Potomac Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, green pear with a subacid flavor. Tree is somewhat resistant to fire blight. Moderate keeper.
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Billy Bound Custom Benchgraft
A sweet, pleasant, lightly russeted apple of medium size to small. The fruit is blocky shape, uniform and scab free. The tree is large and spreading with a biennial bearing habit.
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Binet Rouge Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium French bittersweet cider apple. The flesh is pale yellowish, fine grained and firm. Hard. Somewhat dry, sweet, slightly bitter, flavourful and aromatic.
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Red Bartlett Custom Benchgraft
Large red sport of the Bartlett pear with crisp sweet flesh. Has some disease resistance.
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Red d'Anjou Custom Benchgraft
A large, red pear with some russeting. Flesh is mild and sweet and gets better with some storage. Stores for a long time.
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Red Sensation Custom Benchgraft
A Bartlett type pear with a higher sugar content. The skin is very red which makes it a great dessert pear. Pollinator needed.
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Bittenfelder Seedling Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium apple with green/yellow skin and red blush. Flesh is white, crisp, and juicy with a high sugar, acidity flavor. Basically a sweet sharp cider apple.
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Rescue Custom Benchgraft
Large elongated pear with yellow skin and some orange and red stripping/blush. Buttery flesh with a small core and sweet flavor. Self-fertile. Scab resistant.
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Rotkottis Frau Ostergotland Custom Benchgraft
A red fleshed pear.
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Black Gilliflower Custom Benchgraft
Large, long, conical, ribbed apple which, when highly colored, becomes almost purplish. Distinctive unusual flavor, reminiscent of Spitzenburg, rich and sweet, with relatively dry flesh. Hangs well on the tree but do not allow to become overripe as flesh...
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.