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Black Gilliflower Custom Benchgraft
Large, long, conical, ribbed apple which, when highly colored, becomes almost purplish. Distinctive unusual flavor, reminiscent of Spitzenburg, rich and sweet, with relatively dry flesh. Hangs well on the tree but do not allow to become overripe as flesh...
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Black Limbertwig Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large red apple with yellow, juicy, Sweet-sharp, spicy and aromatic flesh.
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Black Oxford Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized, round apple with deep purple skin. Good eating, cooking and cider apple.
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Blanquina Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, green/yellow apple with blush and russeting. A sharp cider apple that is not for eating.
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Blenheim Orange Custom Benchgraft
Large, yellow and red apple with creamy, white course flesh. Sharply subacid, aromatic flavor similar to Roxbury Russet. Tip bearer. Immune to fire blight. Suscepible to scab.
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Blondee Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow apple with smooth skin. It has sweet and tart, firm, crisp flesh. Good keeper. It is a slow-browning apple when sliced.Â
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Bloody Ploughman Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red, ribbed apple. Flesh is crisp and juicy with a mello sweet taste. The white flesh gets a pink staining when it gets really ripe.
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Blue Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
An old apple of uncertain origin, but probably American. It was noted by the Royal Horticultural Society of London in 1893 and widely grown in New York and New England in the 19th century. A large, slightly conical fruit with red and purplish-red...
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Blue Ridge King Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red apple with dark red stripes. Mainly an eating apple.
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Bonnie Best Custom Benchgraft
An excellent apple for pies, canning, and fresh use. Fruits are large with attractive pale red striping. Flesh is creamy color, crunchy, tender, juicy and slightly tart. Keeps well in storage.
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Bramley's Seedling Custom Benchgraft
Large, green cooking apple from England. Very good apple for cooking and cider. Trees are very vigorous and spreading. Bears heavy and regular.
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Brown Snout Custom Benchgraft
A bittersweet cider apple. Fruit is small, green/yellow with some russetting.
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Brown's Apple Custom Benchgraft
Medium, red, sharp cider apple with slightly red flesh. Very hardy
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Brushy Mtn Limbertwig Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized red over yellow apple with yellow, crisp, very juicy, sweet-tart and highly aromatic flesh. Good keeper. Trees have a tendancy to grow in a weeping form.
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Bulmers Norman Custom Benchgraft
A sweet/bittersweet green-yellow cider apple. Very cold hardy.
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Burford Redflesh Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large size, round to round flattened, red apple with a light russet. The flesh is beet-red, juicy and very tart and somewhat bitter. A cooking apple and often used for making cider. Can be used as an ornamental due to it's greyish bloom.
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Burgundy Custom Benchgraft
Large, solid dark red apple with gloss like skin. Flesh is crisp with some red streaking as it ripens. Great eating apple. One of our favorites. Not a great keeper.
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Calville Blanc d'Hiver Custom Benchgraft
Uniquely shaped medium to large size fruit, skin yellow with light red flush. Fine textured. Flesh is tender, yellowish-white; flavor sweet, subacid, aromatic. Higher in Vitamin C than an orange. This is the gourmet culinary apple of France, excellent...
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Cameo Custom Benchgraft
A chance seedling. Resembles a Delicious apple. Bright red striping over a cream colored base. Fresh is firm, crisp with subacid, aromatic taste. Good keeper
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Campfield Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large yellow sweet cider apple. Skin is red striped with a slight yellow blush. A very good keeper
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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.