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Chesapeake Custom Benchgraft
A seedling of Red Rome and has the same characteristics. Tree is medium size and very vigorous, hardy, productive.
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Chestnut Crab Custom Benchgraft
A large crab that is good for cooking and desserts. The flesh is crisp, juicy and sweet and has a nut-like flavor. A very hardy tree and resistant to cedar-apple rust.
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Chieftain Custom Benchgraft
Medium size red apple with firm, juicy white flesh. Good keeper.
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Chisel Jersey Custom Benchgraft
A reddish bittersweet cider apple. Very vigorous tree.
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Chiver's Delight Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized apple with greenish/yellow skin and red blush over most of the apple. Flesh is white, crisp, and juicy with a sweet/acidic flavor.
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Christmas Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
A small dessert apple with green/yellow skin with some red blushing and striping. Apples is conical shaped. The flesh is firm, yellow and aromatic.
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Christmas Pink Custom Benchgraft
Light green with pink blushing apple with pink, juicy, tart flesh. Tartness mellows with storage.
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Cinnamon Spice Custom Benchgraft
Named for its cinnamon flavor, like an apple pie in a fresh apple. Medium size, wine red with some yellow back- ground color. Tree of medium vigor, with upright shoots.
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Clay Pot Custom Benchgraft
A very pretty apple. Nearly round, medium to large cherry red fruit. Tree has a unique weeping growth habit. It is both a spur and tip bearer. Crisp, sweet flesh with just a hint of tartness.
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Claygate Pearmain Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large oblong-conic fruit with a few red stripes and russet dots or netting. Strong nutty taste, rich and aromatic. Firm flesh with typical dense russet texture. Grown in Edwardian & Victorian country gardens and one of Edward Bunyards...
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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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Clovis Custom Benchgraft
A sport of Golden Delicious. A medium sized apple with yelllow, russeted skin. The flesh is yellow and crisp with a spicy, sweet flavor.
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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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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.