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Weirouge Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium, red apple. Flesh is slightly tart but sweet, crisp, and red.
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Westfield Seek No Further Custom Benchgraft
Excellent for eating fresh. Fruit is streaked with red and russet over yellowish background.
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Westland Custom Benchgraft
Originating in Brooks, Alberta, this super-hardy cultivar will fruit in the coldest climate. Fruit large, juicy, good for pies and sauce but a bit tart for eating. Not a keeper. Pendulous branching habit.
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White Astrachan Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple with green skin that turns yellow when mature with some red streaking on sun side. Flesh is white, tender, juicy, and sweet-tart.
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White Jersey Custom Benchgraft
A small, yellow bittersweet cider apple. Not for eating or cooking. Makes a good quality juice thatÂ’s low acid and mildly tannic.
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White McMahon Custom Benchgraft
Excellent eating apple. A possible seedling of Alexander
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White Pippin Custom Benchgraft
A late season ripening apple. Good production and good flavor for eating.
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White Winter Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
Tree vigorous. Fruit medium to nearly large, uniform, pale greenish, usually with one side blushed red. Flesh firm, crisp. Dessert apple, mildly subacid and pleasantly aromatic. Once a very popular apple in the Napa Valley, well adapted to coastal...
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White Wolf River Custom Benchgraft
Sport of Wolf River
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Whitney Crab Custom Benchgraft
Round to conic crab apple; often larger than a golf ball. Light greenish yellow with red blush or stripes. Sweet, juicy, yellowish flesh.
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Wickson Crab Custom Benchgraft
Small yellow and red fruit. Very sweet. Highly flavored juice.
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William Crump Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Cox's Orange Pippin and Worcester Pearmain. A medium to large, red apple. Flesh is sweet with a pineapple flavor.
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Williams Custom Benchgraft
Beautiful bright red fruit. Red tinged firm flesh is moderately crisp and juicy yet mildly subacid. Good dessert apple.
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Williams Favorite Custom Benchgraft
Beautiful bright red fruit. Red tinged firm flesh is moderately crisp and juicy yet mildly subacid. Good dessert apple.
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Williams Pride Custom Benchgraft
Fruit is medium in size slightly conic in shape with a rich aromatic flavor. Apples are 70-80% red with excellent eating quality. It has inbred resistance to apple scab and cedar apple rust. Good resistance to fireblight and powdery mildew. Stores...
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Willow Twig Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple with green/yellow skin with some red and russet patches. Flesh is greenish yellow, coarse, and firm with a subacid flavor. Excellent keeper.
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Windham Russet Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium-sized, roundish apple with complete russeted, brown, bumpy skin. Excellent eating and dessert apple
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.