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Regent Custom Benchgraft
Medium size fruit. Bright red over yellow. Very pleasing flavor and texture. Honeyed, plenty of acidity, crisp, crackling, juicy flesh. Cooked keeps shape, light flavour, sweet, fruity. Delicately favored, all purpose apple. High dessert quality does not...
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Reine des Hatives Custom Benchgraft
A medium-large green apple with a pink blush. Mainly used for cider and desserts. The flesh is crisp and white with a bittersweet flavor.
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Reine des Pommes Custom Benchgraft
A small bittersweet cider apple with red skin.
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Reine des Reinettes Custom Benchgraft
Fruit has dull yellow skin, flushed and flecked red with dots and patches of russet. The white flesh is tender and dense with a sweet subacid flavor.
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Reineta do Caravia Custom Benchgraft
A semi-sharp Spanish cider apple. It is disease resistant.
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Reinette Clochard Custom Benchgraft
A traditional French sweet-flavored dual-purpose apple. Good keeper.
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Reinette Gris Custom Benchgraft
Medium size apple, pale green skin with a russet coat and first white flesh. Sharp, dry, sweet, crisp texture and flavor. Excellent keeper.
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Reinette Rouge Etoilee Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, yellow apple with an almost complete red blush and sometimes has russeting. Flesh is firm, fine grained, and juicy. White flesh sometimes has pink staining under the skin. Raspberry flavor.
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Reinette Simirenko Custom Benchgraft
Medium, greenish-yellow, russeted apple. The flesh is greenish-white that is tender and crisp. It bears early and heavily and will hang on the tree long after ripening.
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Repinaldo do Liebana Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, yellow, russeted Spanish cider apple that produces a semi-acid juice. Very resistant to fireblight.
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Reverend Morgan Custom Benchgraft
A seedling of Granny Smith. A medium size apple with green skin and pink blush, russeting, and large lenticels. Flesh is white, crisp, juicy, and a little tart.
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Rhode Island Greening Custom Benchgraft
A large, green apple with some russeting. Flesh is firm, rich, juicy and tart. Excellent pie and eating apple.
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Ribston Pippin Custom Benchgraft
An orange/red skinned dessert apple with yellow flesh. Flesh is hard and crisp with a high sugar taste.
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Robert's Crab Custom Benchgraft
A large, purpulish crab apple. Used for jellies and cider.
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Roman Stem Custom Benchgraft
A small yellow apple with black spots. The flesh is tender and juicy with a mild flavor.
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Rome Custom Benchgraft
Fruit medium to very large with handsomely striped to almost solid red, thick skin. A favorite baking and drying apple, a good keeper on and off the tree. Tree medium sized and spreading with age. Scab resistant.
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Rome Law Custom Benchgraft
Large, red apple. Flesh is white but sometimes streaked with red and crisp.
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Ross Nonpareil Custom Benchgraft
Small, round or conical apple covered with thin gold-brown russet, usually with striking scarlet stripes showing through. High sugar and tartness.
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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.