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Quebec Belle Custom Benchgraft
Open-pollinated seedling of Northern Spy. Red fruit. Resembles Delicious in appearance and Northern Spy in quality. Keeps well. Hardy to -50 degrees.
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Queen Cox Custom Benchgraft
An improved strain of Cox's Orange Pippin with better disease resistance, tasty, and cropping.
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Quinte Custom Benchgraft
A medium-sized apple with yellow skin with dark red flushes. Flesh is white and tender.
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Ralls Janet Custom Benchgraft
Small to medium fruit. Yellow or greenish skin flushed, matted and streaked with red. Firm, fine, crisp, tender, pleasantly aromatic, white flesh. Good keeper when stored properly.
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Ramsdell Sweet Custom Benchgraft
Also called English Sweet. An attractive red appple of good size and very good quality. In season from mid-autumn to mid-winter. The tree is a pretty good grower and an early bearer. Nearly annual bearer of not very uniform in size and quality fruits...
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Raven Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium, red fleshed, balanced, cider apple. Not a good keeper. Great for a bright red juice.
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Raxao Custom Benchgraft
A sharp cider apple from Spain
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Razor Russet Custom Benchgraft
An attractive russet mutation of Golden Delicious. Spicier than standard Golden.
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Red Astrachan Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium, round to slightly flattened apple. Flesh is white with red tingers, juicy, crisp and tart. Not a good storer.
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Red Barron Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, red apple with tart, juicy flesh. A good keeper. Trees are productive and somewhat disease resistant.
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Red Berlepsch Custom Benchgraft
A red sport of Freiherr Von Berlepsch. Flesh is white with a fine texture. Gourmet quality apple.
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Red Butterscotch Custom Benchgraft
Small to medium size apple with orange/red striping over green. The flesh is firm and sweet. A good keeper.
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Red Cortland Custom Benchgraft
An improved version of Cortand
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Red Devil Custom Benchgraft
A large, mid, scarlet flushed skin with pronounced bloom on skin. A cross of Discovery x Kent. Flesh has a strong fruity taste, some strawberry flavor, crisp, juicy, pink stained flesh.
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Red Giant Crab Custom Benchgraft
Dark red fleshed apple that grows up to 3" in diameter. The flesh is firm and very tart.
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Red Gravenstein Custom Benchgraft
Improved red strain of Gravenstein. A large, crisp, juicy cooking apple with white flesh.
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Red Hook Custom Benchgraft
Flesh white or cream, with outer half pink when fully ripe. Very good eating apple. Not for processing.
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.