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Atlas Custom Benchgraft
Red apple that is good for cooking and eating. Keeps well. Tree a strong grower and productive.
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Autumn Artic Custom Benchgraft
Red-yellow, striped apple with soft, sweet flesh. Tree is productive and scab-resistant.
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Autumn Berry Custom Benchgraft
A small green skinned apple with a yellowish flesh that has a pineapple taste.
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Autumn Crisp Custom Benchgraft
Medium red apple with crisp sweet flesh. Tree is disease resistant and easy to grow. Good keeper.
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Autumn Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
Light yellow-green apple with some red. Flesh is juicy with a fine texture.
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Bailey Sweet Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large size, red apple covered in white dots. Flesh is yellow, coarse, juicy, and sweet. Does not keep long.
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Baldwin Custom Benchgraft
Large winter apple with tough, smooth, bright red skin with white stars. Good eating apple with crisp, juicy, somewhat aromatic yellowish flesh. Tree tend to be long lived.
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Bancroft Custom Benchgraft
Quality fair when ripe, improves with storage. Exceptionally good keeper.
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Barry Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large fruit with an intense solid dark red skin. Lasts 3 months in storage.
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Bastian Orange Flesh Custom Benchgraft
A small apple with orange skin and red stripes. Flesh is orange and dense with a very sweet and slightly tart flavor.
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Batul Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin and an orange blush. The flesh is crisp and juicy with a very sweet flavor.
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Beacon Custom Benchgraft
Large, red apple with soft, sweet flesh. Good apple for eating fresh or cooking.
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Beautiful Arcade Custom Benchgraft
A yellow apple with spashes of red. The firm, yellow flesh has a sweet taste. Not a good keeper. Can be used as a rootstock.
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Beauty of Bath Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium, yellow with red flushing apple. Flesh is white, crisp and sweet/tart flavor.
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Bedan Custom Benchgraft
Sweet to bittersweet cider variety. Very productive tree with some resistance to fire blight.
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Belle de Boskoop Custom Benchgraft
Large greenish-yellow fruit with rough skin and dark red blush on exposed fruits. Crisp, tangy, highly aromatic flesh. Outstanding, all-purpose, tart apple. Heavy bearing. Triploid.
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.