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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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Autumn Berry Custom Benchgraft
A small green skinned apple with a yellowish flesh that has a pineapple taste.
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Autumn Crisp Custom Benchgraft
Medium red apple with crisp sweet flesh. Tree is disease resistant and easy to grow. Good keeper.
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Bailey Sweet Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large size, red apple covered in white dots. Flesh is yellow, coarse, juicy, and sweet. Does not keep long.
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Baldwin Custom Benchgraft
Large winter apple with tough, smooth, bright red skin with white stars. Good eating apple with crisp, juicy, somewhat aromatic yellowish flesh. Tree tend to be long lived.
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Bancroft Custom Benchgraft
Quality fair when ripe, improves with storage. Exceptionally good keeper.
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Barry Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large fruit with an intense solid dark red skin. Lasts 3 months in storage.
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Batul Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin and an orange blush. The flesh is crisp and juicy with a very sweet flavor.
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Beacon Custom Benchgraft
Large, red apple with soft, sweet flesh. Good apple for eating fresh or cooking.
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Beauty of Bath Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium, yellow with red flushing apple. Flesh is white, crisp and sweet/tart flavor.
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Bedan Custom Benchgraft
Sweet to bittersweet cider variety. Very productive tree with some resistance to fire blight.
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Belle De Boskoop Custom Benchgraft
Large greenish-yellow fruit with rough skin and dark red blush on exposed fruits. Crisp, tangy, highly aromatic flesh. Outstanding, all-purpose, tart apple. Heavy bearing. Triploid.
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Belle Fille Custom Benchgraft
A large sweet-sharp French cider apple. Also used for sauce, pies and tarts.
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Bellefleur Krasnyi Custom Benchgraft
Medium, round conic, ribbed apple with red/orange skin. Flesh is white with pink close to the skin, crisp, sweet, and aromatic. Hardy tree which bears huge crops.
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Ben Davis Custom Benchgraft
A large, red stripped apple with hard, course flesh. One of the best keeper apples.
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Berner Rosenapfel Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, yellowish green with heavy red blushing apple. Flesh is greenish, fine grained, juicy, sweet, sprite flavour. Dessert and apple.
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Bevan's Favorite Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin and bright red stripes. Flesh is crisp and firm with a subacid flavor.
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Bill's Red Flesh Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized, red apple. The flesh is red with a sweet flavor.
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Billy Bound Custom Benchgraft
A sweet, pleasant, lightly russeted apple of medium size to small. The fruit is blocky shape, uniform and scab free. The tree is large and spreading with a biennial bearing habit.
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Binet Rouge Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium French bittersweet cider apple. The flesh is pale yellowish, fine grained and firm. Hard. Somewhat dry, sweet, slightly bitter, flavourful and aromatic.
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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.