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St. Edmunds Russet Custom Benchgraft
The best early russet. Flat uniform-sized apple covered with a smooth pale fawn- colored russet in our climate. Very juicy, crisp, yellowish flesh, great for cider as well as eating.
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Starkey Custom Benchgraft
A medium size apple with yellow/green skin covered with red stripping. Flesh is firm, juicy, and sweet/tart flavor.
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Starr Custom Benchgraft
Very large yellow green fruit with smooth skin and faint blush. Yellow flesh is tender, crisp, juicy, sprightly subacid, aromatic. Very good in quality, especially for dessert use. Moderately vigorous tree bears at a young age. Tree bears young, usually...
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State Fair Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, red/orange apple with juicy sweet flesh. This is a very good eating apple.
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Stayman Winesap Custom Benchgraft
Fruit medium to large, dull red bloom over greenish base, striped red in less highly-colored fruit. Flesh yellowish, firm, tender, juicy, pleasantly subacid.
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Stembridge Cluster Custom Benchgraft
A small-medium, yellow apple with red stipes on the sun side. The flesh is white, firm, and juicy. It is a bittersweet cider apple but can also be used for baking.
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Stoke Red Custom Benchgraft
A small, yellow apple with red striping. An English bittersharp cider apple with soft, juicy, white flesh.
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Stone Custom Benchgraft
A red striped apple with sweet, yellow flesh. Very flavorful. Very hardy.
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Strawberry Parfait Custom Benchgraft
A striped red over ivory skin apple with red spashes like strawberries in vanilla ice cream in the flesh. Hints of strawberry in the aroma and taste. Strawberry Parfait was originally known as NJ46. It is a cross of Mollies Delicious and July Red.
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Suiki Custom Benchgraft
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Summer Banana Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, yellow apple with some red striping or blush. Flesh is firm, juicy, and has a banana flavor.
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Summer Champion Custom Benchgraft
Large red fruit. Tree is an early bearer
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Summer Cider Custom Benchgraft
A chance seeding found in a VA orchard by Tim Strickler. Best used as an early cider apple. Susceptible to cedar apple rust.
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Summer Glow Custom Benchgraft
A variation on McIntosh
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Summer Orange Custom Benchgraft
The fruit is large, round, and light greenish-yellow in color with dark specks. Great for apple pie.
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Summer Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
One of two apples given "best" rating in Beachs Apples of New York. Mild, rich, excellent flavor. Tree a weak grower and fireblight susceptible.
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Summer Rambo Custom Benchgraft
Large, striped red apple with juicy aromatic flesh. A great eating and a good for sauce. Tends to be a very vigorous growing tree with some disease resistance.
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.