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Custom Benchgraft On Customer's Pear Wood
Customer's scionwood is custom benchgrafted onto a rootstock of choice.
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Abbe Fetel Custom Benchgraft
A large, elongated Bosc type pear with yellow skin with a red blush. Flesh is crisp but melting in texture with a rich, sweet flavor.
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Anjou Custom Benchgraft
An excellent European pear. Short-necked, slightly rusetted, light green fruit. Hardy, blight resistant, bears young and is a good pollinizer.
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Arganche Custom Benchgraft
A small, yellow pear with a red blush. Flesh is fine grained, firm, juicy, and sweet. Resistant to scab.
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Aurora Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow pear that has some russeting. Flesh is juicy, sweet and very aromatic. A high quality dessert pear that keeps well.
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Barland Custom Benchgraft
An perry pear for cider with high acids and tannins.
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Bartlett Custom Benchgraft
Large yellow pear with white juicy flesh. Great all around pear. Ripens off the tree. Good keeper. Trees are highly productive.
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Beetroot Eric Custom Benchgraft
Small, red fleshed pear used for cider.
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Bella Di Guigno Custom Benchgraft
An early, yellow pear with a red blush and excellent flavor.
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Beurre Giffard Custom Benchgraft
Old french pear. Medium, light green pear. Turns pale yellow with pink blush as it ripens. Crisp, tender, juicy flesh with delicious, refreshing flavor. Does not keep well. Very hardy.
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Blakeney Red Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, sharp cider pear with green russeted skin. Heavy and reliable cropper.
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Blake's Pride Custom Benchgraft
Yellow pear with some russetting. Flesh is juicy and aromatic. Very resistant to fire blight.
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Bloody Bastard Custom Benchgraft
Small, red fleshed pear used for cider.
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Bosc Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, dark yellow pear with some russeting. A high quality pear and good keeper. Ripens off the tree. Trees are very productive.
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Bosc Golden Russet Custom Benchgraft
A russeted sport of Bosc.
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Brandy Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, perry pear with red blush over yellow skin. A cider pear with medium acid and low tannin.
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Butt Custom Benchgraft
A small, yellow, slightly russetted, perry pear. A cider pear with moderate acid and tannin content. Produces a slightly astringent, fruity, good quality cider. Heavy producer. Excellent keeper.
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Out of stock$15.00
Pear 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.