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Edward VII Custom Benchgraft
Regarded by some as the finest winter apple for spring pie and sauce. A great cooking apple. Medium to large, shiny green or yellow skin, flesh firm, tart and juicy. Flat-round to round shape. Keeps until Easter when it possesses a rich, sweet flavor...
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Egremont Russet Custom Benchgraft
Prized as the most delicious of the English russets. Small, round, golden brown russet fruit often with black spots or markings. Greenish-yellow, richly flavored, very distinctive flesh, often described as nutty. Almost smoky, tannic quality develops...
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Elah Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin and pink blush. Flesh is fine-grained and crisp with a sweet flavor. Disease resistant. Low chill hours.
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Ellis Bitter Custom Benchgraft
A bittersweet cider apple. Fruit is small with yellow skin. Blooms late but very productive tree. Short storage.
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Ellison's Orange Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized, golden apple which has juicy, yellow flesh. This tree can be biennial bearing.
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Elstar Custom Benchgraft
Cross of Golden Delicious and Ingrid Marie. A medium to large, red-yellow apple. It has sweet, crisp, juicy flesh. Flavor gets better in storage.
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Emerald Spire Custom Benchgraft
Growth habit like Crimson Spire but around mid-September you will be picking green apples with a beautiful golden blush & a crisp, tart & tangy flavor. The spring flowers are white, tinged with pink. Highly ornamental & productive in the garden or a...
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Empire Custom Benchgraft
A McIntosh type apple with better color and flavor and longer keeper. Medium size fruit with a creamy white, crisp, juicy flesh.
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Empress Custom Benchgraft
Fruit is medium sized, 90% red, with excellent eating quality and the aromatics of Jonamac. Tree habit is round, not vigorous. Blooms with Red Delicious.
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Enterprise Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, red apple. A very good keeper that is very disease resistant.
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Ermen's Russet Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large sized, russeted apple. The flesh is yellowish and crisp with a very sweet flavor.
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Erwin Baur Custom Benchgraft
A good sized seedling of Oldenburg. A late variety, lightly striped red over yellow. It has especially hard and crisp flesh with the high flavor of Cox Orange.
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Esopus Spitzenburg Custom Benchgraft
Thomas Jeffersons favorite dessert apple; A medium to large; orangish apple with some russeting. The flesh is yellow with spicy, juicy favor. Very good keeper.
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Out of stock$15.00
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.