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Otterson Crab Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, redfleshed cider apple.
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Oxheart Pippin Custom Benchgraft
Choice eating; deep flavor with a lot of juice; excellent keeper
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Ozark Gold Custom Benchgraft
Golden Delicious type but earlier, firmer (perhaps due to Ben Davis parentage) and less russeting. Flavor is sweet, honeyed, very juicy with little acidity.
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P.R. John Custom Benchgraft
A round, medium to large sized apple with deep red colored skin. Excellent flavor leaving you wanting for more. Ranked very high on taste tests. Good grower and bearer.
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Pacific Gala Custom Benchgraft
A mutation of Royal Gala. A red, sweet apple that stores well. Colors uniformly and early and retains a strong stripe. Holds well on the tree for several days after ripening. Sweet flavor is retained in storage.
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Padley's Pippin Custom Benchgraft
A small apple with greenish-yellow skin and an orange blush with some russeting. The flesh is yellow and juicy with a sweet and brisk flavor.
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Paradise Custom Benchgraft
A large, round, green apple. Flesh is fine grained, juicy, and sweet.
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Paradisiaca Atrosanguinea Custom Benchgraft
A red, cider crabapple with high antioxidants.
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Parkland Custom Benchgraft
Similar to Norland but keeps better. Small fruit on a compact tree. Good for fresh eating and cooking.
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Patricia Custom Benchgraft
A seedling of McIntosh. A large, green-yellow apple with a red blush. Hardier than McIntosh
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Paulared Custom Benchgraft
A very white-fleshed, juicy apple of good all-purpose quality.
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Pawpaw Sweet Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized, red apple that is an excellent for baking and desert.
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Peace Garden Custom Benchgraft
A very cold hardy apple. Has a red striped skin over a very juicy flesh. Great keeper.
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Peasgood Nonesuch Custom Benchgraft
Large pale yellow-green apple that color deepens to orange-yellow with red stripes and some russeting. A very good baking apple.
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Peck Pleasant Custom Benchgraft
A medium size apple with green skin that turns yellow when mature with a red blush. Flesh is yellow and crisp with an aromatic flavor.
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Pendragon Custom Benchgraft
A red fleshed sharp cider apple.
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Pepa Custom Benchgraft
A sweet cider apple.
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.