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Schweizer Wasserbirne Custom Benchgraft
A large, green pear with russeting. The flesh is yellow and course with a sweet/slightly tart flavor.
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Black Limbertwig Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large red apple with yellow, juicy, Sweet-sharp, spicy and aromatic flesh.
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Seckel Custom Benchgraft
Small, sweet "Sugar Pear". Ideal for the home gardener. Vigorous, hardy and blight resistant tree.
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Black Oxford Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized, round apple with deep purple skin. Good eating, cooking and cider apple.
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Sheldon Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large size, green pear that may turn yellow as it gets very ripe. Flesh is juicy, melting, and sweet with a spicy flavor. Good keeper.
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Shenandoah Pear Custom Benchgraft
A large green pear with a very rich Bartlett type flavor. Very resistant to fire blight.
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Blacktwig (Mammoth) Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large red apple with yellowish, juicy, breaking and aromatic flesh. Great keeper. Some disease resistance.
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Shinko Custom Benchgraft
Medium size, oval, brownish-green fruit. Firm, crisp, apple-like flesh with rich, sweet distinctive flavor. Good keeper. Annual bearer
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Blanquina Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, green/yellow apple with blush and russeting. A sharp cider apple that is not for eating.
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Southworth Custom Benchgraft
A large, good flavored pear with sweet, juicy, and firm flesh
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Spartlett Custom Benchgraft
This is an improved Bartlett pear with the fruit being at least 1/3 larger. The trees are hardy but susceptible to fire blight.
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Blenheim Orange Custom Benchgraft
Large, yellow and red apple with creamy, white course flesh. Sharply subacid, aromatic flavor similar to Roxbury Russet. Tip bearer. Immune to fire blight. Suscepible to scab.
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St. Nicholas Custom Benchgraft
AKA Duchesse D'Orleans. A large, brown russeted dessert pear. Flesh is sweet and juicy.
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Blondee Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow apple with smooth skin. It has sweet and tart, firm, crisp flesh. Good keeper. It is a slow-browning apple when sliced.
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Sugar Custom Benchgraft
Round, yellow pear with red russet blushes. Flesh is very sweet. Self-fertile.
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Bloody Ploughman Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red, ribbed apple. Flesh is crisp and juicy with a mello sweet taste. The white flesh gets a pink staining when it gets really ripe.
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.