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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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Collette Custom Benchgraft
A large, yellow pear with some red blushing. Flesh is smooth and aromatic.
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Comice Custom Benchgraft
A large, green-yellow pear with a red blush and some russeting. Flesh is rich, juicy, firm, sweet, and fine grained.
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Concorde Custom Benchgraft
Large green pear with pink blush. Tender, juicy flesh with excellent flavor. Stores well.
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Conference Custom Benchgraft
A medium to large, green pear that has some russeting. The yellow flesh is sweet and juicy. A very good keeper but very susceptible to fire blight.
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Dana Hovey Custom Benchgraft
A small, green-yellow pear with some russeting. Flesh is juicy, sweet, and rich. Good keeper.
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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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Douglas Custom Benchgraft
A yellow pear with white and juicy flesh. The flavor is very sweet.
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Flemish Beauty Custom Benchgraft
Large, yellow pear with a rich flavor. It is a great pear for eating or canning. This is a very winter hardy pear but is susceptible to fire blight.
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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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German A Custom Benchgraft
Unnamed seedling. A very large pear which grows up to one pound. Very good for eating and sauce. Not for canning.
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German C Custom Benchgraft
Bosc type pear. One of the few pears that is good tree ripened.
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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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Golden Spice Pear Custom Benchgraft
A very good eating pear but not a keeper.
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Gourmet Custom Benchgraft
A medium size, green/yellow pear with yellow, crisp, juicy sweet flesh with a somewhat thick skin. Not a pollinator.
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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.
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.