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Michelin Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, pale green/yellow apple that produces a medium bittersweet juice. Spur bearing.
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Milden Custom Benchgraft
A large, pale yellow apple with some red blushes. The white with some yellow flesh is coarse, juicy and tart. A good keeper.
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Milo Gibson Custom Benchgraft
Red and yellow fruit. A fine tasting apple with unique licorice flavor.
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Milton Custom Benchgraft
Similar to McIntosh. Great for sauce.
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Milwaukee Custom Benchgraft
Yellow, red-stripped apple. Tart flavored apple that is good for cider and cooking.
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Minkler Molasses Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized apple that is uniform in shape. Skin has a pinkish red blush and splashes of dark red. The flesh is greenish, crisp, juicy and aromatic.
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Minnesota 1734 Custom Benchgraft
Bronze russet fruit. Hard, yellow flesh. Rich flavor. Makes excellent tasting cider. Annual producer of heavy crops
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Mollies Delicious Custom Benchgraft
A very good to excellent early apple ripening 4 weeks earlier than Red Delicious. Fruits are large to very large, conical in shape with a pinkish red color. Has an exceptionally pleasing aftertaste. This quality can be maintained in storage for at least...
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Monroe Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, red over yellow apple. The flesh is yellowish with a sweet-tart flavor. It is both a good fresh eating apple and cider apple.
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Morden 359 Custom Benchgraft
Wealth x Melba. Large, juicy, red fruit. Keeps until January.
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Morden 363 Custom Benchgraft
Haralson x Melba. Large fruit, less colored than Morden 359. Mildly acid. Fully ripened fruit will store until spring.
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Morning Star Custom Benchgraft
Coming Soon
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Moses Wood Custom Benchgraft
A medium-sized, tart late-summer dessert and cooking apple. Light yellow skin with a pink blush and red stripes. Flesh is white and very juicy flesh with a pleasantly subacid flavor. A vigorous upright productive tree.
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Mother Custom Benchgraft
Beautiful apple, good size with thin golden yellow skin covered with deep red marbled and striped with carmine. Fine tender, rich, aromatic flesh. Great fresh off the tree!
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Mott's Pink Custom Benchgraft
Medium size, yellow skin with pink blush apple. Flesh is pink with a tangy flavor.
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Mountain Rose Custom Benchgraft
(AKA Hidden Rose) Probably the best of all red fleshed varieties. Apple has yellow skin with pale whitish dots. Deep rose red flesh, juicy, crisp, hard, sugary and richly flavored and a good keeper
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Mountaineer Custom Benchgraft
A sport of York Imperial but sweeter. A medium sized apple with green/yellow skin blushed with red. Flesh is yellow, firm, and tender with a sweet flavor.
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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.