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Brown Snout Custom Benchgraft
A bittersweet cider apple. Fruit is small, green/yellow with some russetting.
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Brown Thorn Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium sized, russeted apple. Used for cider.
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Brown's Apple Custom Benchgraft
Medium, red, sharp cider apple with slightly red flesh. Very hardy
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Brushy Mtn Limbertwig Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized red over yellow apple with yellow, crisp, very juicy, sweet-tart and highly aromatic flesh. Good keeper. Trees have a tendancy to grow in a weeping form.
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Bulmers Norman Custom Benchgraft
A sweet/bittersweet green-yellow cider apple. Very cold hardy.
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Burford Redflesh Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large size, round to round flattened, red apple with a light russet. The flesh is beet-red, juicy and very tart and somewhat bitter. A cooking apple and often used for making cider. Can be used as an ornamental due to it's greyish bloom.
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Burgundy Custom Benchgraft
Large, solid dark red apple with gloss like skin. Flesh is crisp with some red streaking as it ripens. Great eating apple. One of our favorites. Not a great keeper.
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Calville Blanc d'Hiver Custom Benchgraft
Uniquely shaped medium to large size fruit, skin yellow with light red flush. Fine textured. Flesh is tender, yellowish-white; flavor sweet, subacid, aromatic. Higher in Vitamin C than an orange. This is the gourmet culinary apple of France, excellent...
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Calville Rouge Custom Benchgraft
A medium-large sized, yellow apple almost a complete red blush. An all-purpose apple. The flesh is white, tender, and juicy with a sweet flavor with hints of strawberry.
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Cameo Custom Benchgraft
A chance seedling. Resembles a Delicious apple. Bright red striping over a cream colored base. Fresh is firm, crisp with subacid, aromatic taste. Good keeper
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Campfield Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large yellow sweet cider apple. Skin is red striped with a slight yellow blush. A very good keeper
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Canada Reinette Custom Benchgraft
Slightly russeted, yellow apple with juicy, crisp flesh.
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Canadian Strawberry Custom Benchgraft
A round apple that is medium to large. Yellow with some green background, striping, and red-orange spots. Flesh is juicy and slightly tart and has a distinctive flavor. Keeps about one month.
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Candy Crisp Custom Benchgraft
Golden, yellow skinned apple with a pink blush. Flesh is juicy and sweet with a pear-like flavor. Great keeper.
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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.