Workers harvest two-year-old Honeycrisp trees at C&O Nursery in Quincy, Washington. Bench graft: Starts out as a rootstock, with the rootstock taken out of the layer bed in November and bench grafted with scion wood between January and April. Bench grafts are delivered for planting after the last spring frost. Bench-graft trunks will be about 14 to 16 inches tall, with the top four inches being the scion wood. Rootstock choice must be made before they are dug, and the scion variety must be determined before the bench grafts are made. Bench grafts give growers more time to decide the scion/rootstock […]