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Scarlet O'Hara Custom Benchgraft
Excellent quality apple with crisp, sweet flesh. Hangs well on the tree. Shows resistance to scab.
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Scarlet Pearmain STP Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with yellow skin and red blush. Flesh is yellow with red staining by the skin, crisp, juicy, and sweet. Good keeper.
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Scarlet Pimpernel Custom Benchgraft
Sharp yet plenty of sweetness; juicy, soft, melting flesh. Best eaten from tree.
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Scarlet Spire Custom Benchgraft
Columnar tree. Skin color is bright red over green. Great eating apple.
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Scarlet Surprise Custom Benchgraft
Beautiful bright red flesh! Spectacular deep pink blossoms in spring followed by reddish foliage. Medium-sized, red-skinned fruit is sweet and flavorful.
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Scott Winter Custom Benchgraft
an attractive red apple well-suited for cooking when underripe due to its high acid content. When fully ripe, it is a very fine dessert apple with a well-balanced flavor. Fruit size is about medium with a slightly conical form. The thin, smooth skin is...
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Secor Custom Benchgraft
A red striped apple with juicy, firm flesh. Good keeper.
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Sekai Ichi Custom Benchgraft
Color of fruit varies form pale pink to darker red with red stripes. Sometimes solid red in the sun. Crisp, breaking, juicy flesh. Very sweet fine mild flavor. If tree is properly thinned, apples reportedly weigh close to 2 lbs.
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Senshu Custom Benchgraft
Fuji cross whose flavor and size qualities are rated excellent. Reported to be very disease resistant. Tree is moderately spreading somewhat like Fuji.
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Shamrock Custom Benchgraft
Developed as a substitute for Granny Smith for areas where Grannys cannot be ripened. A Spur McIntosh x Spur Golden Delicious cross. Medium size fruit is very similar in appearance to Granny Smith. Flesh is creamy light green and has a coarse texture...
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Sharon Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with green/yellow skin with red blush and some red stripes. Flesh is tender, juicy, and sweet.
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Sheriff Custom Benchgraft
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Sherry Custom Benchgraft
Fruit will hang on tree all winter. Poor quality when picked, but improves to good quality after storing for several months. Annual heavy crop.
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Shiawassee Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Medium size, round, greenish-yellow fruit with juicy, white flesh and mild sweet flavor. Comes in early in the season when eating apples are scarce.
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Shizuka Custom Benchgraft
Cross of Golden Delicious and Indo. Sister to the Mutsu apple. A large, yellow apple with some orange blush. Flesh is firm, sweet and mild flavored. Good keeper.
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Sierra Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Large, handsome apple with thin green and yellow skin, striped or blushed red. A favorite apple from Boonville, CA. Juicy, very crisp and tart. A good seller in farm markets and an excellent keeper. The tree is compact.
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Signe Tillisch Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, yellow apple with some orange blush. Flesh is soft, sweet and flavorful.
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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.