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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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Bella Di Guigno Custom Benchgraft
An early, yellow pear with a red blush and excellent flavor.
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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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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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Clapps Favorite Custom Benchgraft
A very large yellow-green pear, with a red blush. This pear is juicy, crisp and sweet. Fruit will ripen on the tree. Trees are very hardy and vigorous but can be susceptible to fire blight.
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Clapps Red Custom Benchgraft
Yellow fruit with bright red blush. A very productive, winter hard tree but susceptible to fire blight.
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Des Urbanistes Custom Benchgraft
A round, pale yellow, russeted pear. Flesh is buttery and white with a delicious flavor.
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Forelle Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized yellow pear that gets a red blush and speckles like a trout. Very good tasting pear but susceptible to fire blight.
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Gem Custom Benchgraft
A large, red blushed pear over green skin. Flesh is juicy and sweet. Very disease resistant.
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Giffard Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, yellow pear with a pink blush. The flesh is crisp and juicy with a mild flavor.
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Harrow Crisp Custom Benchgraft
Fruit has a very attractive finish with a red blush over smooth, yellow skin and the flavor is mildly sweet. The tree is very hardy, productive and has proven resistance to fire blight.
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Harrow Delight Custom Benchgraft
A medium sized, yellow pear with some red blushing. Very high quality pear with some resistance to fire blight. Very hardy.
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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.