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Cannon Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
Green-yellow apple with red blush and red dots. All-purpose apple the is an excellent keeper.
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Cap of Liberty Custom Benchgraft
Heirloom bittersharp cider apple.
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Carolina Red June Custom Benchgraft
A small to medium, red apple with white, juicy, and brisk subacid flesh.
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Carter Blue Custom Benchgraft
Greenish-yellow apple that is medium to large with white, crisp and juicy flesh. Very fragrant
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Centennial Crab Custom Benchgraft
A cross of Wealthy and Dolgo Crab. A yellow crab apple with white, crisp, and juicy flesh. The flavor is sweet and nutty. Apples get to be 1.5 - 2 inches in diameter. Great pollinator.
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Champlain Custom Benchgraft
Round, yellow apple with tender, juicy flesh.
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Charette Custom Benchgraft
Large, donut shaped red striped apple. Aromatic flesh. Excellent for sauce and pies.
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Chehalis Custom Benchgraft
Large green/yellow apple that is similar to Golden Delicious. Great apple for baking.
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Chenango Strawberry Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large apple with yellow/greenish skin with some red stripping. A dessert apple that is good for lots of uses. The white flesh is firm, juicy and very aromatic. Trees are hardy but susceptible to fire blight.
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Cherry Cox Custom Benchgraft
Sport of Cox Orange Pippin from Denmark. Often shows dark red stripes and splashes of the solid red fruit. Keeps in storage one month longer than others of this type.
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Cherry Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large red stripped apple. Pink fleshed with a tart taste.
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.