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Haralson Custom Benchgraft
A fine hardy winter variety. Popular with many commercial growers. Medium sized apple with crisp juicy flesh and a tart flavor. Can be stored into March. A good selection for cooking. Often bears fruit the first year after planting.
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Harcourt Custom Benchgraft
A fair quality apple. It has not been hardy in northern Saskatchewan and should only be planted in well-protected areas. Good resistance to fireblight
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Hardy Cumberland Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with a mostly red color. The flesh is crisp, and juicy with a mostly sweet flavor. Used as an all purpose apple. Excellent storage qualities.Â
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Harold's Large Custom Benchgraft
Bright yellow fruit with intense red cheek. Highly aromatic, yellow flesh.
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Harrison Custom Benchgraft
A yellow high quality cider apple. It produces a balanced flavor because it's sweet, bitter and sharp.
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Harry Baker Custom Benchgraft
Red flesh crab apple that is great for jams and jellies.
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Harry Masters Jersey Custom Benchgraft
A medium size bittersweet cider apple. Skin is green with red stripping. A very high quality cider apple.
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Hawaii Custom Benchgraft
Gourmet dessert apple with a flavor and aroma like pineapple. Large, yellow fruit with light pinkish orange striping gives overall orange appearance. Exceptionally sweet flavor is largely influenced by Gravenstein. Growth habit is moderate spreading and...
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Hawkeye Custom Benchgraft
Fruit is medium to large with clear, smooth, glossy yellow skin covered with red shading and striping. The yellowish flesh is fine-grained, crisp, and juicy and immensely more flavorful than the Red Delicious.
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Hawley Custom Benchgraft
Large round apple with some ribbing. Skin is waxy gold and green with some russetting. The flesh is yellow, rich, and juicy with a mild flavor.
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Hazen Custom Benchgraft
Large round dark red fruit. Greenish yellow, medium firm, juicy, very sweet flesh; mildly subacid flavor. Pleasant for eating, good dessert and cooking apple. Naturally semi-dwarf tree grows about 7-10 feet tall with a 15 foot spread. Annual producer...
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Herefordshire Redstreak Custom Benchgraft
A small apple with red and yellow streaked skin. The flesh is yellow and firm with a semi-sweet flavor.
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Hewes Crab Custom Benchgraft
1.5" flattened dull red crab apple. It makes a clear dry cinnamon flavored cider.
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Heyer 20 Custom Benchgraft
Medium to medium large yellowish green apple with a crisp, juicy, sweet flavor that is unbeatable! Hardy zone 2 variety suited to short growing seasons. Handles -46 degrees in Fairbanks with no injury.
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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.