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Coe's Golden Drop Custom Benchgraft
Small, flat, conical fruit; yellow, blushed with bright crimson. Crisp and yellow flesh; very juicy, brisk, sugary and vinous. Susceptible to scab.
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Coeur de Boeuf Custom Benchgraft
Large, green with dark red flushing apple. Fresh is cream colored with a sweet and aromatic flavor. Great keeper.
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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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Collins Cherryfield Custom Benchgraft
Medium to large yellow apple that is striped with red. Fish is crisp, fine grained and tart. Good keeper.
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Coloradona Custom Benchgraft
A small bittersweet cider apple with yellow skin covered almost completely with red stripes. Not for fresh eating.
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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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Cooper's Market Custom Benchgraft
Medium sized dessert Apple of good quality.
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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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Cotton Sweet Custom Benchgraft
A large apple with pale yellow skin. Flesh is white and tender with a very sweet flavor.
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.