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Yates Custom Benchgraft
A small, red apple with white dots. Flesh is tender, juicy, aromatic and subacid.
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Yeager Sweet Custom Benchgraft
A very early ripening apple. Yellow skin with some russeting. Flesh is very sweet.
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Yellow Bellflower Custom Benchgraft
Fruit quite variable in size, with attractive yellow color and pinkish-blush in sunny exposures. Flesh whitish, firm, fine-grained, rather tender, aromatic, quite acidic early in season. A favorite for baked apples.
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Yellow Ingestrie Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Cox's Orange Pippin and Golden Pippin. A small, oblong, yellow apple with a pale red blush. Flesh is yellow, fine grained, and tender with a sweet-sharp flavor.
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Yellow Newton Pippin Custom Benchgraft
large-sized; yellowish flesh is firm, crisp, and very aromatic; good keeper; there is also a Yellow Newtown strain, popular in the south
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Yellow Sheepnose Custom Benchgraft
A large yellow apple, a regular bearer, shaped like a Spigold. The tree is a vigorous grower and bears annual crops. A cooking apple.
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Yellow Transparent Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large fruit with transparent pale yellow skin. Crisp, sweet and juicy, but has a very short life after ripening on or off the tree. Often picked in a greener stage for cooking. Excellent for sauce, pie and drying. Bears very young and heavily...
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Yoko Custom Benchgraft
Open pollinated from Golden Delicious. A large apple with yellow skin wash completely in red with some russeting. Flesh is white and first with a sweet-tart flavor.
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York Imperial Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, striped red apple with yellowish sweet flesh, long keeping.
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Zabergau Custom Benchgraft
Huge, gold-brown russet fruit. Crisp, white flesh. Flavor is sometimes described as rich and nutty.
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Zaychuck #1 Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow apple. Flesh is juicy and sweet.
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Zestar Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, red apple with light, crisp and juicy flesh. Taste has an excellent sweet-tart balance with a brown sugar overtone. The tree is very cold hardy.
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Virginia Greening Custom Benchgraft
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Terry Winter Custom Benchgraft
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Sir Prize Custom Benchgraft
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Rolfe Custom Benchgraft
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Red Spy Custom Benchgraft
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Red King Red Flesh Custom Benchgraft
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Moyer Spice Custom Benchgraft
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Kickapoo Spice Custom Benchgraft
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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.