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Blacktwig (Mammoth) Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large red apple with yellowish, juicy, breaking and aromatic flesh. Great keeper. Some disease resistance.
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Blanquina Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, green/yellow apple with blush and russeting. A sharp cider apple that is not for eating.
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Blenheim Orange Custom Benchgraft
Large, yellow and red apple with creamy, white course flesh. Sharply subacid, aromatic flavor similar to Roxbury Russet. Tip bearer. Immune to fire blight. Suscepible to scab.
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Blondee Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow apple with smooth skin. It has sweet and tart, firm, crisp flesh. Good keeper. It is a slow-browning apple when sliced.Â
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Bloody Ploughman Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red, ribbed apple. Flesh is crisp and juicy with a mello sweet taste. The white flesh gets a pink staining when it gets really ripe.
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Blue Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
An old apple of uncertain origin, but probably American. It was noted by the Royal Horticultural Society of London in 1893 and widely grown in New York and New England in the 19th century. A large, slightly conical fruit with red and purplish-red...
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Blue Ridge King Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, red apple with dark red stripes. Mainly an eating apple.
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Blush Rosette Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple with yellow/green skin with a heavy red blush. Flesh is cream colored with pink staining throughout. The flavor is sweet and complex. Susceptible to scab.
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Blushing Golden Custom Benchgraft
A large size, yellow apple with an orange-red blush. Flesh is juicy and very flavorful. Flavor improves with storage.
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Bonne Hotture Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium sized, golden yellow apple with some russeting. The flesh is white, fine-grained and juicy with a sweet/tart flavor.
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Bonnie Best Custom Benchgraft
An excellent apple for pies, canning, and fresh use. Fruits are large with attractive pale red striping. Flesh is creamy color, crunchy, tender, juicy and slightly tart. Keeps well in storage.
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Bottle Greening Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large green apple with white, tender and juicy flesh. Flavor is sweet/sharp and aromatic. Great all around apple.
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Braddick's Nonpareil Custom Benchgraft
Aromatic dessert apple with yellow-green skin flushed with red-orange. Cream colored flesh is firm and crisp with a fine texture.
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Braeburn Custom Benchgraft
Late season apple of very high quality. Fruit is medium to large size with orangish-red blush over a green-yellow background. Quite tart and firm, good for eating and makes a fabulous pie. Rated high in fruit trials in Oregon and Washington, Braeburn is...
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Bramley's Seedling Custom Benchgraft
Large, green cooking apple from England. Very good apple for cooking and cider. Trees are very vigorous and spreading. Bears heavy and regular.
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Bramtot Custom Benchgraft
A bittersweet green cider apple with some russeting. High tannin juice. Biennial bearer.
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Breaky Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized, yellow-green apple with bright red stripes. Good apple for eating fresh and cooking.
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Brock Custom Benchgraft
A cross between Golden Delicious and McIntosh. A large apple with red/pink skin. Flesh is cream colored, crisp and juicy with a sweet/sprightly flavor. Good keeper. Doesn't brown when cut.
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.