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Akane Custom Benchgraft
A hard, round, red apple with tart, white flesh. A good dessert apple and fair keeper. A better apple for the south. A cross between Jonathan and Worcester Pearmain.
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Alaska Custom Benchgraft
Large white apple with crisp flesh.
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Albemarle Pippin Custom Benchgraft
large-sized; yellowish flesh is firm, crisp, and very aromatic; good keeper; there is also a Yellow Newtown strain, popular in the south
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Alexander Custom Benchgraft
Very large, attractive, red or striped fruit. Excellent for sauce, cooking to a juicy lemony puree. Eaten fresh, quite sweet, slightly scented. Good for home orchards, as it ripens continuously over...
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Alfa 68 Custom Benchgraft
Fruits have firm, tender, juicy, acid flesh, with a good flavour.
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Alkmene Custom Benchgraft
Bright red apple with crisp, juicy flesh. May have some russeting. Not a keeper. Scab tolerant.
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Almata Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium-sized; red-fleshed, tart flavor apple. Color is pale red with gray bloom
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Amberoso Custom Benchgraft
Large red fleshed crab apple
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American Golden Russet Custom Benchgraft
A southern variety, Classic russet, cider apple. Flesh is dense and sugary.
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Ananas Reinette Custom Benchgraft
Golden skin with russet freckles. Crisp, juicy flavor with intense, sweet, sharp pineapple flavor late in the season. Good for eating fresh, cooking and juice.
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Anton Polt Custom Benchgraft
A large, green apple. The flesh is white, crisp, and juicy with a mild tart flavor.
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Api Etoile Custom Benchgraft
A small apple with green skin which turns yellow with an orange blush when mature. Flesh is cream colored, fine-grained, and crisp with a sweet-tart flavor.
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Apricot Custom Benchgraft
A large, round, orange and red apple. The flesh has an orange like color with a mild apricot flavor.
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Arkansas Black Custom Benchgraft
Very large, attractive, red or striped fruit. Excellent for sauce, cooking to a juicy lemony puree. Eaten fresh, quite sweet, slightly scented. Good for home orchards, as it ripens continuously over...
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Arkcharm Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, yellow apple with a red blush when ripe. Flesh is white and juicy. Great eating apple.
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Arlet Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large fruit is bright red over rich yellow ground color. Crisp, sprightly flavor. Precocious tree bears early.
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Ashmeads Kernel Custom Benchgraft
An old English winter russet, medium size, golden-brown skin with the crisp, dense, yellowish flesh, characteristic of russets: sugary and aromatic with intense flavor. Winner of taste tests.
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Atalanta's Gold Custom Benchgraft
Small, golden apple with tender skin and juicy flesh. Flavor has a hint of citrus.
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Atlas Custom Benchgraft
Red apple that is good for cooking and eating. Keeps well. Tree a strong grower and productive.
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Autumn Artic Custom Benchgraft
Red-yellow, striped apple with soft, sweet flesh. Tree is productive and scab-resistant.
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Apple 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.