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Pitmaston Pineapple Custom Benchgraft
A small golden nugget, tall and conic in shape, with crisp, yellowish, firm flesh and rich pineapple flavor.
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Pixie Custom Benchgraft
Green-hellow skinned apple with orange-red blush. Flesh is white, creamy, crisp, with a sweet and highly aromatic flavor.
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Pixie Crunch (Co-op 33) Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, yellow apple with a large red blush. Very disease resistant. Excellent sweet, crisp eating apple.
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Plum Cider Custom Benchgraft
Brought to Wisconsin from Ohio in 1844 by Mr. Plumb. Medium size apple with yellow skin that has red splashes. Greenish flesh is firm, fine, breaking, and juicy with a brisk, subacid flavor.
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Pomme d'Or Custom Benchgraft
A large yellow apple. It is unique in that it's center is someone hollow with sweet juice. Very cold hardy.
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Pomme Gris Custom Benchgraft
Medium to small; thick, tough skin; rich, juicy yellow flesh; firm, crisp, and aromatic; excellent dessert apple
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Porter Custom Benchgraft
Pure yellow skin with tender flesh. Ripens during September. Fine quality dessert apple, great for cooking and canning. Has been singled out as one of the best varieties for apple pie.
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Porter's Perfection Custom Benchgraft
English cider apple. Striped red on cream. Tart flavor. Bittersharp juice with high acid and tannin.
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Pound Sweet Custom Benchgraft
Very large, amber to golden fruit when fully ripe. Fine eating but very best when baked.
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Prairie Spy Custom Benchgraft
Large fruit, crisp & juicy with excellent flavor which develops and improves while in storage. Keeps until Spring. Tree bears very young. Some resistance to scab and cedar apple rust.
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Priscilla Custom Benchgraft
A seedling of Starking Delicious. A medium size, yellow apple that's most covered with a red blush. Flesh is crisp, coarse, and white with a good flavor. Disease resistant.
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Pristine Custom Benchgraft
A very sweet, yellow skinned apple. It is very similar to Yellow Transparent.
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Puget Spice Custom Benchgraft
A bittersharp, red crabapple that is highly disease resistant.
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Pumpkin Russet Custom Benchgraft
A large, russeted apple. The flesh is crisp and juicy with an mild, sweet flavor. An all purpose apple.
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Purple Passion Custom Benchgraft
A large apple with deep red to purple skin. The flesh is deep red to purple and juicy with a very sharp flavor.
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Purpurroter Cousinot Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large apple with red skin. The white to light yellow flesh has an aromatic and sweet flavor. Spur bearing.
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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.