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Pepin Shafrannyi Custom Benchgraft
A small apple with yellow skin and dark red blush. Flesh is cream colored, firm, crisp and juicy with a sharp flavor.
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Perrine Yellow Transparent Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow apple that is very similar but larger than Yellow Transparent. It has better resistance to fire blight than Yellow Transparent. This tree is not a pollinizer.
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Perry Russet Custom Benchgraft
It is a large yellow green apple often with shiny skin and only occasionally covered with a fine russet. It has juicy fine grained yellow flesh, rich and acidic in flavor and excellent for pies. Described in "Horticulturist" in 1862 by a grower in...
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Pewaukee Custom Benchgraft
Medium/large apple with firm white flesh, coarse and juicy. Good fresh eating and cooking. Keeps well.
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Piel de Sapo Custom Benchgraft
A semi-sharp, russeted Spanish cider apple.
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Pierce Pasture Custom Benchgraft
Very large apple with coarse yellowish flesh, excellent flavor. Good keeper.
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Pigeonette Custom Benchgraft
Dessert apple
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Pine Golden Pippin Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with an irregular shape and greenish skin which covers with a complete russet. The flesh is yellow, tender, and juicy with a sweet aromatic flavor.
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Pink Delight Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow apple with some red striping. The sweet, aromatic flesh is a deep pink color.
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Pink Lady Custom Benchgraft
A crisp, sweet-tart apple, with a distinct flavor.
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Pink Old Lady Custom Benchgraft
Smaller, pink fleshed apple. It has a tart sweet taste.
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Pink Parfait Custom Benchgraft
Large apple with red stripes over a cream background. Pink and cream flesh with excellent flavor
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Pink Pearl Custom Benchgraft
A pink-fleshed, pearly-skinned apple that is not just a novelty, but a good tasting apple with firm flesh. Tart to sweet-tart, depending on time of harvest. Blooms very attractive. Makes pink applesauce and attractive fruit tarts. An Albert Etter...
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Pink Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
Red fleshed apple with a distinctive aromatic flavor.
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Pink Princess Custom Benchgraft
This variety has been renamed by its hybridizer, Fred Janson to avoid confusion with the commercial variety Pink Lady. A medium sized apple, light green skin turning yellow with a few faint red stripes. Pink colored flesh similar to that of Pink Pearl,...
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Pink Sparkle Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, red striped apple of unusual shape. The flesh is very pink but will vary by climate and is tart with a sweet aftertaste.
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Pink Sugar Custom Benchgraft
A Downing selection, probably a Red Delicious/Golden Delicious cross. Pink striped over a yellow background. Lacks acid, very sweet.
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Pinova Custom Benchgraft
This is a cross of Golden Delicious and Clivia (Dutchess of Oldenburg x Cox?s Orange Pippin). Red blush covering yellow skin gives a reddish orange appearance. Fruit is medium in size with sweet tangy flavor. A good keeper.
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Pioneer Mac Custom Benchgraft
Excellent sport of McIntosh.
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.