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Court Pendu Plat Custom Benchgraft
The name is derived from Corps Pendu, referring to the shortness of the stem. Skin is greenish-yellow becoming flushed with orange-red with short broken stripes. A good cropper with rich, aromatic fruit with a good balance of sugar and acid. Suitable for...
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Cox's Orange Pippin Custom Benchgraft
Fruit medium, red and yellow, usually striped. Flesh yellow, firm, crisp, very juicy, aromatic. Highly esteemed in England as a dessert apple; produces an excellent apple in cooler summer climates. One of the best apples for espalier.
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Cox's Pomona Custom Benchgraft
Sister of Cox's Orange Pippin. Looks much like Cox's Orange Pippin. Flesh is white, crisp and tart. Great apple for eating, baking and cooking.
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Cranberry Pippin Custom Benchgraft
Large, red apple that is resistant to scab and stores well. Flesh is soft, juicy with a good subacid flavor.
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Crimson Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Cross between New Brunswicker and Fameuse. A red striped apple with juicy white flesh. Its season is extremely early. Hardy to -50 degrees F.
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Crimson Crisp Custom Benchgraft
Medium, red apple with crisp, tart flesh. Great eating apple and long keeper.
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Crimson Gold Custom Benchgraft
Etter apple. Medium sized, red-orange on a yellow background apple. Flesh is white, firm and juicy with a sweet-tart flavor. Great keeper.
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Crimson King Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, red apple. It produces an acidic juice with no astringency and makes a light, fruity cider. A good tart eating apple too.
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Crimson Spire Custom Benchgraft
Columnar tree. Skin color is bright red over green. Great eating apple.
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Crimson Topaz Custom Benchgraft
A medium size apple with yellow skin that is overlain with a crimson blush. The flesh is crisp and delicious. Trees are resistant to scab and mildew.
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Cristalina Custom Benchgraft
A semi-sharp Spanish cider apple.
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Crown Empire Custom Benchgraft
Red blush sport of Empire. Ripens 2 weeks earlier than Empire. Intense flavor and better annual bearer.
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Dabinett Custom Benchgraft
A bittersweet cider apple with greenish-yellow skin with a red blush. Blooms late and is a reliable cropping apple. Some scab resistance.
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Dakota Gold Custom Benchgraft
Large fruit, good for fesh eating and cooking.
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D'Arcy Spice Custom Benchgraft
Great flavor in a plain package. Yellowish-green skin, flushed with russet patches surrounds fine, firm crisp flesh with rich, vinous flavor. One of the favorites at our apple tastings.
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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.