We graft all of our trees onto M111 EMLA rootstock.
Click here to see why.
Availability: 12/4/2011 Sold out
for the 2012 Season unless you previously contacted us this year
Benchgraft Apple Trees: We do our best to ship February 30th through March
30th, but are sometimes dependent on Eastern suppliers for some
scionwood stock who are not sympathetic that we are having weather in
the 80's while they're still trudging through 3 feet of snow. We usually group orders so it's easier on the county
inspector who inspects Friday and then we ship on
Saturday. We will hold your check and not cash it until we ship.
3/10/09
We've come to the realization that we're not very good at supplying
scionwood. Since we focus on testing, a lot of varieties our
trees are small and do not produce a lot of usable wood. We have
to use what we have to fill our tree orders and end up running out of
a lot of varieties on some scionwood orders.
Because
of this we recommend you order from the good people at Maple Valley
Orchards www.maplevalleyorchards.com
who have given us excellent service on our scionwood orders.
You can order any of these any time, but the orders will ship per the
schedule above. If you miss this year's deadline, your order will
ship the next year.
Minimum Quantity: Benchgrafts: 10
trees, and you can mix the varieties. Click here to see why we
instituted this policy.
Order early to assure you your first choice of rootstocks and
apple variety. Once we run out, that's it until next year!
Outside California Orders: We ship mostly to the underserved area of
Southern California. For other states, we have to include a Certificate of Inspection that
we are are charged $48 for. The budget-strapped County Ag dept.
now uses the Federal PCIT online system which no longer allows us to
split this cost between orders. For overseas shipments, click here
to see instructions.
For those east of the Mississippi, we
recommend our friends at
Big
Horse Creek Farm in North Carolina
or
Century Farm Orchards, also in North Carolina.
For the Northwest,
Trees of
Antiquity in Northern California can help you out. For
you poor folks up in the far North, Fedco
Seeds
carries cold-tolerant varieties that survive the frigid winters.
In the Midwest Wagon
Wheel Orchard is now selling
bengrafts from their monster list. Finally, for our British friends and those back East, Orange
Pippin.com
is a wealth of information and carries trees suited for England.
Note: Utmost care is taken to
make sure the variety you receive is properly identified and labeled. Should it
fruit out and prove to be a different variety, we will be happy to
either refund your money or ship a different variety, either in
budwood/scionwood or benchgraft, depending on the season.
However, you may decide that you
really like the variety that was mislabeled anyway, in which case we
will do what we can to help you to identify the variety.
Nursery stock is a live product
that is sometimes fickle or dependent on weather. Should
we run out of a certain variety or just not have success
with it that year, we'll ask if you want to substitute another
variety or cancel your order.
Our rootstocks used for
benchgrafts are Oregon certified virus-free.
We love to see brag photos and
hope you'll email us some from your garden. Send them to
apples@kuffelcreek.com
