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Winecrisp Custom Benchgraft
Medium red apple with crisp sweet flesh. Tree is disease resistant. Good keeper.
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Winekist Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red apple. The flesh is all red and very tart.
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Winesap Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, dark red apple. The yellow flesh is crisp, juicy, and sweet. The wine-like flavor comes from the contrast of its sugar content and high tartness. Good keeper and high producer.
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Winter Banana Custom Benchgraft
Fruit large, clear pale yellow, waxy finish, one side usually blushed with a delicate pink. A gorgeous apple. Flesh moderately firm, a little coarse, tender, mild, subacid, characteristically aromatic. Good quality. Better eating than cooking (too mild).
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Winter Joy Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized greenish/yellow apple with white flesh. It is a tart eating and cooking apple.
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Winter Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple with green skin and red on sun side with red stripes on rest. Flesh is cream colored, crisp, juicy, and sweet.
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Winter Red Flesh Custom Benchgraft
Red fleshed fruit. Excellent for sauce and jelly. Abundant purple flowers; dark colored leaves.
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Wismer's Dessert Custom Benchgraft
A red apple with white flesh with an aromatic flavor.
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Wodarz Custom Benchgraft
A joint release of N. Dakota and the R.L. Wodarz family, very sweet
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Wolf River Custom Benchgraft
Enormous fruits, often 1 lb. or more, famous for one pie from one fruit. Pale yellow skin almost covered with pale dull red. Soft, tender, creamy white flesh. Mostly used for baking and pies, but in the right climate on sandy soil it becomes a good...
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Worcester Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
A medium apple with red striping over yellow. Flesh is firm, juicy, white, and very sweet. Strawberry flavor.
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Wynooche Early Custom Benchgraft
Large, thin skinned red apple. Flesh is crisp and juicy. Skin almost desappears when cooked. Scab resistant. Decent storer.
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Xuanina Custom Benchgraft
A red, sharp Spanish cider apple.
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Yarlington Mill Custom Benchgraft
Sweet to bittersweet English cider apple. Firm, medium size apples hang on tree well. Late season blending apple. Bears consistently.
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Yarwood Crab Custom Benchgraft
Found growing in the ditch along Yarwood Rd near Gillett, WI. Small 1" to 1 1/2" cherry red crab. Very uniform in size with a long stem. Perfect for spicing and pickling. Makes a beautiful pinkish red jelly.
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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.