Influence of soil nutrients on fruit flavor?

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Naturally as a farmer we tend to sell our very best looking fruit and keep the ugly fruit for ourselves. This is worth bringing up because nutrient level is not always strictly connected to soil. Nutrient levels and appearance can be connected. Small ugly or scarred fruit is frequently higher in nutrition. Organic growers sometimes grow healthier fruit for reasons not well understood. This forum has many topics on this

Ugly Fruit

In order to vastly reduce the number of sprays I confess to growing a lot of ugly fruit- this is especially true of apples where avoiding summer sprays often means apples covered from head to toe with sooty blotch and often fly speck. Most of my customers learn to love their ugly children, but I do produce pristine fruit for a few of them. Often this is to help them give their vast surpluses away. I ran into this article today in the NY Times on a similar subject that I thought some of you mi…

Pear Rootstock influence on pears fruit size, tree growth, nutrition, longevity etc

The influence of rootstock on pear tree growth and fruit size has been long known. This link discusses it briefly https://www.researchgate.net/publication/268576209_The_rootstock_influences_growth_and_development_of_‘Deveci’_pear. I wish a burn test was done on the fruit to determine nutrient content as i believe nutrients as well are determined by rootstock. I use full sized rootstocks such as Callery and BET for many reasons but one is because larger trees have deeper roots so i believe hig…

Is ugly fruit more nutritious?

Young orchardist Eliza Greenman says yes. I’d be interested to see some more rigorous testing. In an unofficial experiment, Greenman tested scabbed and unscabbed Parma apples, a high-sugar variety native to southwestern Virginia, and found the scarred apples had a 2 to 5 percent higher sugar content than unmarred apples from the same tree. More sugar means a higher alcohol content once fermented, producing a tastier hard cider. But she loves these ugly apples for another reason: They may …

Ugly fruit at Walmart article

How many people think this will go over like a lead balloon? I think the grocery store consumer has already been to brain washed to eat anything, but pretty fruit?