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James Grieve - Rosamund Custom Benchgraft
A more red strain of James Grieve
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Jefferis Custom Benchgraft
Thin skinned, light red fruit with darker red stripes. Juicy, crisp yet tender and melting yellow flesh. Rich pear like flavor. Hardy tree bears heavy crop every year. Scab and mildew resistant.
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Jenner Sweet Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin and red stripes. The flesh is sweet.
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Jersey Sweet Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, flat shaped, dark red apple with green/yellow striping. Flesh is very rich, sweet, crisp, and juicy. It is good for cider. Usually bears biennially but sometimes annual. Prone to scab. Not a good keeper.
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Jewett Red Custom Benchgraft
A crimson apple with red stripes and yellow specks. A fine-textured, yellow fleshed dessert apple. This flesh is tender, juicy, and fragrant with a nut-like flavor.
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Jonadel Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Jonathan and Delicious. A large red apple with a sweet-tart flavor. More disease resistant than Jonathan. Good keeper.
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Jonafree Custom Benchgraft
An improved version of Jonathan. A medium sized red apple with crisp, juicy yellow flesh. Much more disease resistant than Jonathan.
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Jonagold Custom Benchgraft
Large yellow apple with some red striping. Flesh is crisp, juicy and slightly tart. Good keeper.
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Jonalicious Custom Benchgraft
Medium tending to large. Round and often lopsided. The smooth skin has a yellow base colour which is washed with bright red and marked with light coloured lenticels. Tough skinned. The flesh is yellowish, crisp and firm, tender. Juicy, sweet, mild...
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Jonamac Custom Benchgraft
Medium size, firm fruit with 90% dark red color over greenish background. Flesh firm, crisp, high quality with flavor similar to McIntosh.
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Jonathan Custom Benchgraft
Moderate grower, bears young. Fruit medium, highly colored in sunny climates, striped red in cooler climates. Skin thin and tough; flesh fine, juicy. Flavor sprightly subacid. One of the best dessert and pie apples. Ours is the original, not the redder...
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Jonwin Custom Benchgraft
A large red apple with a crisp, flavorful flesh. An improved Jonathan.
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Jordan Russet Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin, red blush and grayish lenticels. Flesh is yellow, crisp, and juicy with a sweet/tart flavor.
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Joyce Custom Benchgraft
A cross between McIntosh and Lowland Raspberry. A medium sized apple with yellow skin with red stripes. Flesh is white, soft, and juicy with a sweet, subacid flavor. Hints of raspberry flavor. Very hardy.
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Jubilee Custom Benchgraft
A cross of McIntosh and Grimes Golden. A medium sized, red apple. Flesh is cream colored, crisp and juicy with a sweet-tart flavor.
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.