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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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Bonne Hotture Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium sized, golden yellow apple with some russeting. The flesh is white, fine-grained and juicy with a sweet/tart flavor.
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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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Breaky Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized, yellow-green apple with bright red stripes. Good apple for eating fresh and cooking.
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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...
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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...
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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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Canadian Strawberry Custom Benchgraft
A round apple that is medium to large. Yellow with some green background, striping, and red-orange spots. Flesh is juicy and slightly tart and has a distinctive flavor. Keeps about one month.
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Candied Apple Custom Benchgraft
Red to purple-pink blossoms. Red, persistent fruit. Weeping tree grows 10-15 feet. Moderate disease resistance.
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Candy Crisp Custom Benchgraft
Golden, yellow skinned apple with a pink blush. Flesh is juicy and sweet with a pear-like flavor. Great keeper.
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Cap of Liberty Custom Benchgraft
Heirloom bittersharp cider apple.
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Chehalis Custom Benchgraft
Large green/yellow apple that is similar to Golden Delicious. Great apple for baking.
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Chenango Strawberry Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple with yellow/greenish skin with some red stripping. A dessert apple that is good for lots of uses. The white flesh is firm, juicy and very aromatic. Trees are hardy but...
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Cherry Cox Custom Benchgraft
Sport of Cox Orange Pippin from Denmark. Often shows dark red stripes and splashes of the solid red fruit. Keeps in storage one month longer than others of this type.
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Cherry Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large red stripped apple. Pink fleshed with a tart taste.
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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.