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Lords Seedling Custom Benchgraft
Large, uniform apple that is a heavy bearer.
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Lowland Raspberry Custom Benchgraft
The flesh is fine-grained, juicy and very tender. Fruit is medium to large and somewhat flattened on both ends.
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Lubsk Queen Custom Benchgraft
White like skin with red and pink blushes. Flesh is firm, juicy and tart. Good desert apple for pie and sause. Good keeper
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Lucombe's Pine Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with greenish/yellow skin and a slight blush. The flesh is yellow, tender, and juicy with a sharp flavor.
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Lyman's Large Summer Custom Benchgraft
A large, green eating and cooking apple with crisp, juicy sweet/tart flesh.
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MacFree Custom Benchgraft
A new, disease-resistant variation of McIntosh.
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Macoun Custom Benchgraft
A McIntosh type apple, dark red and medium in size. Flesh is white, richly flavored, aromatic with very excellent fresh eating quality. One of the best mid- season apples. Keeps well. Drops quite a few before they are ripe.
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Magnum Bonum Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin covered by red blushes and stripes. Flesh is white, tender, and juicy with an aromatic, mildly subacid flavor.
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Maidens Blush Custom Benchgraft
Beautiful apple of pale lemon-yellow color with crimson blush. Flesh is white, sprightly, quality good. Tree is an excellent grower, comes into bearing young. Dependable producer.
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Maigold Custom Benchgraft
Rich, sweet-sharp taste, slightly honeyed, mellowing to a citrus taste in storage. Crisp, pale yellow flesh, slightly breaking. Very vigorous growth with somewhat weeping habit. A heavy cropper.
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Major Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, full bittersweet cider apple. Skin is green with red blushing. Very vigorous tree.
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Malinda Custom Benchgraft
Yellow fruit with pretty red blush. Excellent eating with sweet aftertaste. Parent to many of the apples out of the University of Minnesota including Honeycrisp.
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Manitoba Spy Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow/green skin and semi-sweet, white flesh. Trees are vigorous growers and usually are heavy producers.
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Mannington Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
A medium, yellow with red/brown blushing apple. Flesh is yellow, fine grained, crispy and very sweet. Good keeper.
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Mantet Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, summer apple. Amber fruit washed with red. Juicy, tender, aromatic, white flesh. Sweet and juicy with pleasing flavor. High quality. Excellent for fresh eating. Upright, productive tree grows vigorously. In some seasons, such as early...
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Margaret Custom Benchgraft
A small sized apple with yellow/green skin with some orange blush. Flesh is cream colored, crisp, and juicy with a subacid flavor.
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Margil Custom Benchgraft
Medium to small, slightly conical fruit. Orangish red skin with dark red stripes over gold russet patches. Always russeted on one side. Firm, sugary, yellow flesh. Intensely flavored, rich, aromatic, deep cream flesh. One of the best flavored. Moderately...
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.