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Hudson's Golden Gem Custom Benchgraft
Fruit conical, elongated, yellow russet. Perhaps the finest eating russet with crisp breaking sugary flesh and distinct pear flavor. Quite disease resistant to apple scab, powdery mildew and somewhat resistant to fire blight.
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Hunge Custom Benchgraft
A large red apple with some russeting. Flesh is juicy with a mild flavor.
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Hunt Russet Custom Benchgraft
Fruit medium sized, golden russet with broken patches of smooth bright red on the cheek. It is quite attractive for a russet apple, excellent in quality with a pear-like taste. A long lived, vigorous tree. Excellent keeper.
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Husk Spice Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium sized apple with yellow skin and red blush. Flavor is sweet and spicy.
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Hyslop Crab Custom Benchgraft
A small sized apple with yellow skin covered completely with red flush. Flesh is hellow with red stain.
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Idared Custom Benchgraft
Nearly solid red apple with white, crisp, fine-grained, aromatic flesh. Blooms early, but ripens late. Excellent keeper, improves in storage.
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Incarnation Custom Benchgraft
Similar to Macoun with dark red skin. Flesh is pure white.
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Ingram Custom Benchgraft
Seedling of Ralls Genet. A yellow apple with heavy crimson blushing and dotted. Very heavy bearer and keeps well.
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Ingrid Marie Custom Benchgraft
Believed to be a seedling of Cox Orange Pippin. Skin a dark red flush, some stripes, against a yellow background, sometimes russeted. Medium to large size fruit with juicy flesh and a rich, lightly aromatic flavor.
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Initial Custom Benchgraft
A large green apple with red striping. Flesh is crisp and sweet.
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Irish Peach Custom Benchgraft
It is a fine quality dessert apple with a very attractive color and appearance. Its rich flavor is best appreciated if eaten straight from the tree. It does not keep well and will turn soft and dry if not eaten soon. The apple is medium sized with...
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Irish Spire Custom Benchgraft
A columnar apple with medium, light green apples with a red blush. The is cream colored with a sweet/tart flavor. Good keeper
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Iron Bridge Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple of above average flavor. Similar to but better than McIntosh. Crisp, sweet, and slightly tart flesh.
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Islar Rose Custom Benchgraft
Small to medium fruit. Round, cherry red skin. Excellent flavor and good keeper.
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James Grieve Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, conical fruit. Size medium, round conical slightly ribbed shape. Almost solid crimson over yellow. Savoury, juicy yellowish flesh. Crisp yet melting. Strong acidity which can be overpowering early in its season. Acidity mellows and flesh...
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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.