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Leitzke Seedling Custom Benchgraft
A large, elongated, red skinned apple. Flesh is crisp, crunchy with a tart, sweet flavor. Rates very high in taste tests. Good growth habit and bears early and often.
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Lemoen Custom Benchgraft
A large, greenish/yellow, russeted dessert apple. The flesh is cream colored and course with a sweet/sharp flavor.
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Lemon Pippin Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple that resembles a lemon. Flesh is yellow, firm, and dry with a sweet flavor with some hint of lemon.
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Liberty Custom Benchgraft
Resistant to apple scab and mildew. A handsome red apple, usually school box size, of the McIntosh type with a wonderful sweet/tart balance. Crisper, keeps better and more heat tolerant than other McIntosh hybrids. Very productive.
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Limbertwig Caney Fork Custom Benchgraft
Originated in the Caney Fork area of the Cumberland mountains in Kentucky. Great cooking apple.
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Limbertwig Kentucky Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large sized apple with yellow skin covered with red stripes. Flesh is juicy and crisp with a mild, sweet flavor.
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Limbertwig Summer Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin, red stripes, and some russeting. Flesh is white, tender, and juicy with a aromatic flavor.
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Limbertwig White Custom Benchgraft
A large, greenish/yellow, all purpose apple. It is good for for cider, pies, and fresh eating. The tree has a weeping growth habit.
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Lindamac Custom Benchgraft
McIntosh flavor with a bright red blush. Fruit color develops earlier than other McIntosh strains. Red stripe-free apples with good sweet flavor. Cold-hardy. Excellent for fresh-eating and baking.
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Lindsay Russet Custom Benchgraft
A small apple that will become larger if properly thinned. Excellent and unique flavor for cider, sauce and eating. A vigorous, heavily productive tree. Is an early and regular bearer.
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Little Jewel Custom Benchgraft
Small apple with thin skin and sweet, juicy flesh.
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Lobo Custom Benchgraft
Good quality apple that is large and red. Lobo is a seedling of McIntosh and is very hardy.
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Lodgemore's Nonpareil Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin and a red blush. The flesh is yellow, crisp, and juicy with a sweet/sharp flavor.
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Lodi Custom Benchgraft
An excellent, early yellow apple that is similar to Yellow Tranparent only larger. The crisp fruit is especially good for sauce and pies. One of the first to provide apples in the summer. Thinning is required to keep it bearing annually.
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London Pippin Custom Benchgraft
A medium size apple with greenish-yellow skin. Flesh is white with green tinge, firm, and juicy. It has a nutty flavor.
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Loop Russet Baldwin Custom Benchgraft
A russet variety of Baldwin
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Lord Derby Custom Benchgraft
A very good, large, green skinned cooking apple.
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.