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Summer Rose Custom Benchgraft
A green and yellow striped apple with a red blush. Good eat apple with white flesh with subacid flavor. A poor keeper.
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Summer Scarlet Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, shining red apple, firm, crisp, with fine-flavored juice.
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Summer Treat Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Mollies Delicious. Fruits are large to very large, of angular, oblong-conic shape, with glossy skin blushed 70-100% brilliant red. The coarse, cream colored flesh is crisp, sweet, and good fresh from the tree when the fruitsare ripe. Fruits...
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Summerred Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, bright red apple. Flesh has a sweet, crisp flavor. Does not keep well.
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SunCrisp Custom Benchgraft
Golden skin with an orange blush. Sweet tangy flesh
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Sundowner (Cripps Red) Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Golden Delicious and Lady Williams. A medium, red apple with crispy, sweet, white flesh. Great keeper.
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Sunrise (Canada) Custom Benchgraft
Yellow-Red fruit. Unique pear-grape flavor. Good eating apple, ripens midseason. Hardy to -40 degrees.
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Sunrise (UK) Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, yellow apple with an orange/red blush and some red stripes.
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Sunset Custom Benchgraft
A parent to Cox's Orange Pippin. A russeted Cox type apple. Firm, crisp flesh with Cox flavor.
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Surprise Custom Benchgraft
Small, green winter apple with creamy white, red stained flesh. Ripens in Oct. One of the parents of Pink Pearl.
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Sutton's Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Also known as Sutton or Steeles Red Winter. May be a seedling of Hubbardston. It iss uniform and symmetrical shape, beautiful color and pleasant quality makes it an excellent dessert apple. Too mild for culinary use. Flesh slightly tinged with yellow,...
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Swaar Custom Benchgraft
Dutch settlers named this swaar, heavy apple. The flesh is firm, fine, creamy white, dense and aromatic. Spicy, sweet, rich flavor. One of the favorites at our recent apple tasting. Late good keeper hangs on tree late into winter. Best picked firm then...
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Sweet 16 Custom Benchgraft
Uniquely flavored sweet, crisp apple with good storage qualities.
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Sweet Alford Custom Benchgraft
Of medium-sized, flattened, conical shape with a long thin stem in a deep russeted basin. Fruits are waxy yellow, often with a diffuse pink blush. Flesh white, slightly crisp and sweet. Sweet; produces good-quality sweet cider, sometimes mildly...
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Sweet Bough Custom Benchgraft
Regarded as the best early sweet apple. Good size, green fruit with numerous dotes. Juicy, tender, crisp, white flesh with honey sweet flavor. Disease hardy tree; heavy bearer. Ripens in late August.
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Sweet Coppin Custom Benchgraft
A medium, yellow apple. Flesh is soft and sweet with low tannin and acid content.
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Sweet Greening Custom Benchgraft
A large, round apple with flat green skin. Sweet, crisp flavor flesh. Can be used for sauce and pies without adding sugar.
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Sweet Sal Custom Benchgraft
A seedling of Northern Spy. A medium-sized, yellow apple that has pink dots. The flesh is perfect for those who do not like or cannot eat tart apples. Can be harvested over a long period of time.
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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.