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Davey Custom Benchgraft
High quality fruit with distinctive flavor. Keeps all winter. Resistant to scab.
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Dayton Custom Benchgraft
A large, brilliant red apple with crisp, juicy, sweet-tart, and very flavorful flesh. Immune to scab and resistant to both mildew and cedar rust.
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Deacon Jones Custom Benchgraft
Very large, yellow apple with red splashes. The flesh is yellow, firm and juicy with a mild flavor. Good keeper.
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Delcon Custom Benchgraft
Full sized, dark red fruits shaped like a Delicious. Sweet, crisp, juicy, white flesh. Good fresh and for pies. Keeps into the winter. Tree is a natural semi-dwarf. Rarely needs pruning. Bred for its resistance to fireblight. Bears enormous yields of...
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Detroit Red Custom Benchgraft
A large, red apple with white flesh and some pink staining. The flavor is sweet-sharp.
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Devonshire Crimson Queen Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin washed with dark red. Flesh is white with some red stains next to the skin. The flavor is sweet with some tartness.
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Devonshire Quarrenden Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red apple. Flesh is white with some red staining, crisp, juicy and sweet-tart flavor.
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Discovery Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red-striped, apaple with crisp flesh. Hardy and disease resistant to scab.
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Dolgo Crab Custom Benchgraft
Small, crimson color crab apple. Flesh is very flavorful and makes a good ruby red jelly. It usually sets huge crops annually
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Domaines Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, French bitter cider apple.
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Double Red Duchess Custom Benchgraft
Same coloring as Duchess of Oldenburg. Tart apple that is good for eating, pies and applesauce. Not a good keeper.
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Doug's Delicious Custom Benchgraft
Found growing in Oconto County, WI. It has all the characteristics of early Delicious types. Better flavor, except it ripens earlier and is more cold hardy for Northern climates.
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Doux Normandie Custom Benchgraft
A small bittersweet cider apple with yellow skin and red strips.
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Duchess of Oldenburg Custom Benchgraft
Fruit medium to large; color pale yellow covered with splashes and stripes of pinkish red. Excellent flavor with tart overtones. Very good for cooking. Earliest apple.
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Duchess's Favorite Custom Benchgraft
A medkum, green-yellow apple with red striping. Flesh is firm, crispy, white with red staining. Sometimes has a strong strawberry flavor.
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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.