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Vilberie Custom Benchgraft
A small, green bittersweet cider apple.
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Vine Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, round apple with yellow skin that is almost completely red blushed with russetted lenticels. Flesh is yellow, crisp, sweet, and juicy. A wiry tree that resembles a grapevine. Good keeper.
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Virginia Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large, sometimes not symmetrically shaped; good keeper
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Virginia Crab Custom Benchgraft
1.5" flattened dull red crab apple. It makes a clear dry cinnamon flavored cider.
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Virginia Gold Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Golden Delicious and Albemarle Pippin. A large, yellow apple with a red blush. Flesh is crisp, juicy, and mildly subacid. Flavor gets better in storage.
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Virginia Winesap Custom Benchgraft
A sport of Winesap with redder color. A medium size, red apple with crisp, firm flesh. Good keeper. Adapted to a wide range of soils and climates.
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Vista Bella Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large size; good quality dessert apple; not a great keeper.
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Vixen Custom Benchgraft
Very small, sweet-tart fruit with complex flavors and a fine texture. Excellent eating apple.
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Von Zuccalmaglio's Reinette Custom Benchgraft
Rough sticky skin flushed brown-red with faint red stripes and some russeting. Fine grained flesh.
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Wagener Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple that has unique shaping being five sided that is pale red skined with some yellow stripes. The tender flesh is crisp and juicy. This apple is similar to Northern Spy. Great cider and sauce apple.
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Waltana Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, green apple with thin red striping. Flesh is crisp, firm and juicy.
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Washed Russet Custom Benchgraft
A very large russet apple discovered by Conrad Gemmer. This apples markings and shadings of yellow and bronze russet with patches of clear shiny skin gave it the appearance of having been washed. It has crisp juicy flavorful flesh useful for dessert or...
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Washington Strawberry Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large or very large striped red fruit. Firm, yellow flesh is juicy and sprightly subacid. Vigorous tree is hardy, healthy, moderately long lived and an early bearer.
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Watermelon Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized red apple with red flesh. Abundant purple flowers; dark colored leaves.
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Wealthy Custom Benchgraft
Very hardy tree that is also low chill. Flesh whitish sometimes stained with red, tender, very juicy, flavor sweet subacid. Skin red, sometimes striped red.
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Wedge Custom Benchgraft
Skin is solid red or can be striped. The flesh is firm, crisp, and juicy and has a slightly tart flavor. A very hardy and productive tree. Apples are good keepers.
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.