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American Golden Russet Custom Benchgraft
A southern variety, Classic russet, cider apple. Flesh is dense and sugary.
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American Pippin Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large apple with dark, red fruit. Very good keeper and all around apple.
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Ananas Reinette Custom Benchgraft
Golden skin with russet freckles. Crisp, juicy flavor with intense, sweet, sharp pineapple flavor late in the season. Good for eating fresh, cooking and juice.
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Anise Russet Custom Benchgraft
Small, dark red apple with gray russet which has very sweet, dry flesh
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Anoka Custom Benchgraft
A large, greenish, yellow apple with some red blush. The flesh is white and dry with a sweet-sharp flavor.
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Anton Polt Custom Benchgraft
A large, green apple. The flesh is white, crisp, and juicy with a mild tart flavor.
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Antonovka Custom Benchgraft
A very large green apple. Tart flesh. Immune to apple scab. Very hardy.
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Api Etoile Custom Benchgraft
A small apple with green skin which turns yellow with an orange blush when mature. Flesh is cream colored, fine-grained, and crisp with a sweet-tart flavor.
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Apricot Custom Benchgraft
A large, round, orange and red apple. The flesh has an orange like color with a mild apricot flavor.
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Arkansas Black Custom Benchgraft
Very large, attractive, red or striped fruit. Excellent for sauce, cooking to a juicy lemony puree. Eaten fresh, quite sweet, slightly scented. Good for home orchards, as it ripens continuously over a period of about four weeks. Tree is hardy, vigorous,...
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Arkcharm Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, yellow apple with a red blush when ripe. Flesh is white and juicy. Great eating apple.
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Arlet Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large fruit is bright red over rich yellow ground color. Crisp, sprightly flavor. Precocious tree bears early.
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Aroma Custom Benchgraft
Ingrid Marie X Pilippa. A sweet fruity flavored desert apple. Flesh is juicy and rich.
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Art's Apple Custom Benchgraft
A seedling from Art Gowans Orchard. A late, crisp and tart treat apple.
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Ashmeads Kernel Custom Benchgraft
An old English winter russet, medium size, golden-brown skin with the crisp, dense, yellowish flesh, characteristic of russets: sugary and aromatic with intense flavor. Winner of taste tests.
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Ashton Bitter Custom Benchgraft
Seedling of Dabinett x Stoke Red. A bittersweet cider apple. Produces a low acid juice with medium tannin.
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Atalanta's Gold Custom Benchgraft
Small, golden apple with tender skin and juicy flesh. Flavor has a hint of citrus.
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.