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Sinta Custom Benchgraft
Golden Delicious and Grimes Golden cross. Resembles Golden Delicious. Medium sized fruits are pale yellow, sometimes almost white with a pinkish blush in the sun. Crisp, juicy, deep cream flesh; sweet, aromatic flavor superior to either parent. Tree...
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Sissipuk Custom Benchgraft
A red flesh crab apple.
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Smokehouse Custom Benchgraft
Flushed, dull red over greenish yellow. Flesh crisp, yellowish, moderately fine-grained. Fresh cider flavor. Very good quality cooking, eating, and baking apple. Keeps well through March. Vigorous tree. Bears young, quite productive and a reliable...
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SnowSweet Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red apple that is sweet with a slight tart balance and rich overtones. The flesh is firm to crisp.
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Solarina Custom Benchgraft
A semi-sharp Spanish cider apple.
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Somerset of Maine Custom Benchgraft
Large bright-red-striped and splotched late summer dessert apple. Excellent eating apple.
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Somerset Redstreak Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, bittersweet cider apple with red streaked and russeted green skin.
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Sops of Wine Custom Benchgraft
Old English culinary and cider apple. Fruit medium, skin greenish yellow flushed purple red. Flesh soft, fine stained pink; flavor aromatic, subacid, vinous. Season early to mid.
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Spartan Custom Benchgraft
Beautiful medium size dark red almost mahogany dessert quality apple. Pure white flesh, crisp sweet with some acidity. Firmer than McIntosh. Highly aromatic fine flavor. Superb for eating fresh. Better keeper and shipper than McIntosh. Keeps through...
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Spencer Custom Benchgraft
Large nearly solid red or red striped over green fruit. Very sweet with crisp juicy flesh. Fine flavor. Core smaller than McIntosh. Excellent eating quality. Vigorous upright spreading tree. On Professor Ways list of 20 favorite dessert apples.
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Spice Russet Custom Benchgraft
Good for fresh eating and pies.
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Spigold Custom Benchgraft
A very large yellow apple with firm, very juicy flesh and aromatic spicy flavor. It is hard to believe that such a large apple can taste so good. Triploid.
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Splendour Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large apple with dull, pinkish red skin with some russetting. Firm, crisp, yellow flesh with a mild but distinctive, sweet flavor. Good keeper.
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Spokane Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Very large fruit to 2 lbs. Or more. Variable in shape. Good for drying, cooking, and eating fresh.
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Spur McIntosh Custom Benchgraft
A spur bearing version of McIntosh
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Spur Red Gold Custom Benchgraft
This one gets a blue ribbon for being the sweetest tasting apple ever developed. Particularly fine for desserts. This variety is particularly strong flower with good disease resistance. Keeps for weeks in the refrigerator.
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St. Cecilia Custom Benchgraft
A seedling of Cox's Orange Pippin. A high-quality dessert apple. Yellow-green skin overlaid with shiny deep red. Flesh has an intense, sweet, crisp, juicy flavor. Good keeper.
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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.