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Marialena Custom Benchgraft
A spanish sharp cider apple
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Marin Oufroy Custom Benchgraft
A spanish bitter-sweet cider apple
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Marlin Stephens Custom Benchgraft
Large, juicy, red and yellow apple that is good for dessert.
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Marshall McIntosh Custom Benchgraft
A varienty of McIntosh that ripens earlier.
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May Queen Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with green skin washed with dark red. Flesh is yellow, firm, sweet, and slighly astringent. Good keeper.
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McGhee's Seedling Custom Benchgraft
A very large, green apple with some red blushing.
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McIntosh Custom Benchgraft
Nearly solid bright red skin and flesh that is juicy and flavorful. A very good all purpose apple and heavy bearing have made this variety popular with home and commercial orchardists alike.
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Medaille d'Or Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium sized, full bittersweet cider apple with russeted yellow and orange skin.
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Melba Custom Benchgraft
A cross of McIntosh and Lowland Raspberry. A medium sized apple with yellow skin washed with crimson. Flesh is crisp, tender, and juicy. Very hardy.
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Melrose Custom Benchgraft
Large, homely fruit with yellowish-green skin streaked red with russet spots. The flesh is firm, coarse, sweet, juicy and creamy white. One of the best keepers of all time, whose flavor improves in storage. Very good for pie and baking. Should be grown...
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Mendocino Cox Custom Benchgraft
Yellow skin striped with red. Better keeper than Cox Orange Pippin but lacks it's intense flavor.
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Merton Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Cox's Orange Pippin x Ellison's Orange. Red-orange skinned apple with excellent flavor.
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Merton Knave Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium size, red apple. Flesh is white and can have a red stain by the skin when very ripe. Flesh is soft, juicy, and sweet with a strawberry flavor.
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Merton Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Laxton's Superb and Cox's Orange Pippin. A medium to large size, green-yellow apple with a red blush. Flesh is firm and juicy with an aromatic flavor.
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Merton Russet Custom Benchgraft
Cinnamon russet over gold. Sweet-sharp taste with yellow flesh.
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Mettais Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized bittersweet cider apple. It can be used for a single varietal.
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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.