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Claywood Crab Custom Benchgraft
Yellow with red blush craba apple that is about 1.5" in size. Very flavorful flesh
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Clifford Custom Benchgraft
A medium, red apple with red, crisp, juicy and tart flesh. Tartness mellows with storage.
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Coconut Crunch Custom Benchgraft
A hard, yellow apple which has the actual texture like a chunk of coconut. The flavor is mild but interesting. Tastes best after it has been stored for a while.
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Coles Quince Custom Benchgraft
Large, yellow apple with a red blush. Mild, juicy flavor. Poor keeper
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Collaos Custom Benchgraft
A green, semi-sharp cide apple used in the making of Asturian cider. High tannin cider apple.
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Connell Red Custom Benchgraft
It is red sport of Fireside which itself is a cross of McIntosh and Longfield. It is a large round apple with a solid red color and a sweet perfumed fragrance reminiscent of its parent McIntosh. An excellent fresh eating and cooking apple and a superb...
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Cornish Aromatic Custom Benchgraft
Rough golden apple with red stripping. Flesh is creamy, white, and fine grained with sweet subacid flavor.
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Cornish Gilliflower Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple with green skin and red blush. Flesh is yellow, firm, and dry with a sweet flavor.
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Cornish Pineapple Custom Benchgraft
A large, attractive dessert apple with good aromatic flavor.
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Cortland Custom Benchgraft
A McIntosh type with sweet vinous flavor, but not all of Macs aromatics. Very white crisp flesh; one of the best salad apples because it does not brown quickly. Hangs on the tree better than McIntosh, and more crisp in hot weather.
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Court Pendu Plat Custom Benchgraft
The name is derived from Corps Pendu, referring to the shortness of the stem. Skin is greenish-yellow becoming flushed with orange-red with short broken stripes. A good cropper with rich, aromatic fruit with a good balance of sugar and acid. Suitable for...
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Cox's Orange Pippin Custom Benchgraft
Fruit medium, red and yellow, usually striped. Flesh yellow, firm, crisp, very juicy, aromatic. Highly esteemed in England as a dessert apple; produces an excellent apple in cooler summer climates. One of the best apples for espalier.
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Cranberry Pippin Custom Benchgraft
Large, red apple that is resistant to scab and stores well. Flesh is soft, juicy with a good subacid flavor.
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Crimson Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Cross between New Brunswicker and Fameuse. A red striped apple with juicy white flesh. Its season is extremely early. Hardy to -50 degrees F.
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Crimson Crisp Custom Benchgraft
Medium, red apple with crisp, tart flesh. Great eating apple and long keeper.
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Crimson Gold Custom Benchgraft
Etter apple. Medium sized, red-orange on a yellow background apple. Flesh is white, firm and juicy with a sweet-tart flavor. Great keeper.
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Crimson King Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, red apple. It produces an acidic juice with no astringency and makes a light, fruity cider. A good tart eating apple too.
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Crimson Spire Custom Benchgraft
Columnar tree. Skin color is bright red over green. Great eating apple.
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Crimson Topaz Custom Benchgraft
A medium size apple with yellow skin that is overlain with a crimson blush. The flesh is crisp and delicious. Trees are resistant to scab and mildew.
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Crown Empire Custom Benchgraft
Red blush sport of Empire. Ripens 2 weeks earlier than Empire. Intense flavor and better annual bearer.
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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.