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Hibernal Custom Benchgraft
A huge, somewhat astringent apple, said to be good dried. The tree is useful for top-working as it imparts some hardiness to tender varieties.
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Hidden Rose Custom Benchgraft
Probably the best of all red fleshed varieties. Apple has yellow skin with pale whitish dots. Deep rose red flesh, juicy, crisp, hard, sugary and richly flavored and a good keeper
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Holiday Custom Benchgraft
A high quality fine flavored dessert apple recently introduced by the Ohio Station. It has inherited the good eating qualities of its parents with the rich flavor of Jonathan and the white juicy flesh of Macoun. Shiny bright red over yellow skin with a...
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Holstein Custom Benchgraft
Late dessert apple that is a progeny of Cox. Large fruit is highly aromatic with a flavor of Cox and good sugar acid balance. Trees are very vigorous with a spreading nature, and produce many fruiting spurs. One of the favorites at our recent apple...
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Honey Sweet Custom Benchgraft
A light green, russet skinned apple that is very juicy, sweet and crisp. It has many uses, bears early and has good disease resistance.
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Honeycrisp Custom Benchgraft
Skin is mottled red over yellow. The flesh is very crisp and is excellent for eating. Good keeper - up to 5 months. Topped with McIntosh and Delicious for fresh eating in taste tests.
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Honeygold Custom Benchgraft
Hardy substitute for Golden Delicious developed especially for cold northern areas. Golden Delicious flavor - Haralson hardiness. Medium to large golden to greenish fruit with very smooth finish and reddish bronze blush. Flavor is sweeter and more bland...
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Hoople's Antique Gold Custom Benchgraft
The antique in this case refers to antique gold coloration with russeting, not the age of the variety. Found on the Hoople Fruit Farm. Some stripes against a yellow background, sometimes russeted, medium to large size. Rich, lightly aromatic flavor,...
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Hordapfel Custom Benchgraft
A small yellowish-green apple with red striping. A cider apple.
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Horneburger Pancake Custom Benchgraft
Large apple that makes good sauce.
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Horse Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, yellow apple with a tart distinctive taste. Good all around apple.
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Hubbardston Nonesuch Custom Benchgraft
Among the best early to mid-season eating apples. Fruit usually large with clear red skin in our climate, but color is variable. Flesh is white, moderately firm, sweet and rich.
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.