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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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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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Beautiful Arcade Custom Benchgraft
A yellow apple with spashes of red. The firm, yellow flesh has a sweet taste. Not a good keeper. Can be used as a rootstock.
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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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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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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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Black Limbertwig Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large red apple with yellow, juicy, Sweet-sharp, spicy and aromatic flesh.
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Black Oxford Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized, round apple with deep purple skin. Good eating, cooking and cider apple.
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Blacktwig (Mammoth) Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large red apple with yellowish, juicy, breaking and aromatic flesh. Great keeper. Some disease resistance.
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Blanquina Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, green/yellow apple with blush and russeting. A sharp cider apple that is not for eating.
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Blauacher Wädenswil Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, green apple with a nearly complete red blush. The flesh is greenish, firm and juicy with balanced sweet and tart flavor. Scab resistant. Considered a sweet sharp cider apple. Good...
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Blenheim Orange Custom Benchgraft
Large, yellow and red apple with creamy, white course flesh. Sharply subacid, aromatic flavor similar to Roxbury Russet. Tip bearer. Immune to fire blight. Suscepible to scab.
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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.