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Apple Custom Benchgraft

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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.

  • King David Custom Benchgraft

    King David Custom Benchgraft

    Medium size apple with pale green skin with some red overlay. Flesh is yellow, crisp and juicy with a flavorful spicy taste. Good storage. Excellent candidate for espalier. Resistant to fireblight.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • King Luscious Custom Benchgraft

    King Luscious Custom Benchgraft

    The skin is greenish-yellow covered with deep red and overlaid with darker red striping. The flesh is yellowish-white, fine-grained, crisp and juicy.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Kingston Black Custom Benchgraft

    Kingston Black Custom Benchgraft

    Apple crimson over yellow orange ground color. Bitter sharp juice ferments to a distinctively flavored hard cider without blending. Cider only, except for the very brave. Irregular growth habit.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Kinsei Custom Benchgraft

    Kinsei Custom Benchgraft

    A large blushed yellow apple that is sweet and firm. Tree resembles Golden Delicious in growth habit and production. Some calyx russetting can occur in warmer districts. Storage is rated excellent.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Knobbed Russet Custom Benchgraft

    Knobbed Russet Custom Benchgraft

    Its irregular, uneven surface is overlaid with rough gray and black russet and distinctive welts and knobs. The soft and sweet creamy flesh is fine-grained with a sweet flavor.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Lady Api Custom Benchgraft

    Lady Api Custom Benchgraft

    Fruit small to very small, borne often in clusters, not quick to bear, but reliable. Susceptible to apple scab where springs are wet. Flesh white, firm, fine-grained; flavor aromatic, mild subacid becoming nearly sweet. Traditionally was used in...

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Lakeland Custom Benchgraft

    Lakeland Custom Benchgraft

    Medium sized fruit dark red striped. Flesh is yellow sometimes slightly tinged with red. Fine textured, juicy, and mildly acid. Excellent for pies and sauce. Mild pleasant flavor, an excellent choice for the home orchard. Good all-purpose apple. Good...

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Lamb Abbey Pearmain Custom Benchgraft

    Lamb Abbey Pearmain Custom Benchgraft

    Dessert apple, small and intensely flavored with a hint of pineapple. Good balance of sugar and acid. Firm flesh. Ripens in September. Tree is medium size and spreading.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Late Strawberry Custom Benchgraft

    Late Strawberry Custom Benchgraft

    It is a most attractive apple and considered one of the best dessert apples available. It is very well suited for the home orchard as it tends to ripen over a period of several weeks. It is a vigorous, healthy, and long-lived tree producing moderate to...

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Laxton's Epicure Custom Benchgraft

    Laxton's Epicure Custom Benchgraft

    A small to medium apple with green/yellow skin covered with orange blush and red stripes. Flesh is cream colored, crisp and juicy with a sweet, aromatic flavor.

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Laxton's Fortune Custom Benchgraft

    Laxton's Fortune Custom Benchgraft

    Medium size fruit with rich red flush or stripes over pale yellow with occasional russeting. Firm, juicy, creamy white flesh is sweet, richly flavored and lightly aromatic but needs to be left on the tree to fully ripen. Small, compact tree produces good...

    $15.00
    Out of stock
  • Laxton's Superb Custom Benchgraft

    Laxton's Superb Custom Benchgraft

    A cross of Wyken Pippin and Cox's Orange Pippin. A medium to large, yellow-green apple with some dark red markings. Flesh is greenish-white, firm, tender, and juicy with a Cox Orange taste.

    $15.00
    Out of stock