Influence of soil nutrients on fruit flavor?

[clarkinks]

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Yes we have brought this up and it’s true. Growing fruit right to reach maximum quality!

Things like bitterpit are caused by lack of calcium What causes bitterpit

@alan was bringing up calcium issues back on gardenweb which may have been where i learned from but i can’t recall now. It may have been from college. Here is one place where he discussed calcium

Calcium Deficiency Damages Apple Crop

This has been a very good crop year and most orchards I manage have a bumper crop of beautiful apples, but the late varieties in my own trees are a complete mess. Most apples are disfigured and rendered unfit for storage with corking- the unsightly dimples presumably the result of calcium deficiency. Why this year for the first time after over 20 years of cropping mostly sound apples? I’ve had problems with a couple varieties- a Jonagold that gets too much water because it sits by the runoff …

Interesting article about correcting Honeycrisp fruit disorders

Briefly i discussed the basis of soil science here ReplytoOlpea-topic Harrow Program Pears - #144 by clarkinks . @marknmt there is much more we posted. Acres USA was some of my favorite reading material seems like over 20 years ago. Grace Gershuny and other authors were some of my favorites that covered basic soil science.

The pictures of my soil in my garden in this thread says plenty. The food tastes great from the garden. It is very healthy food!

The old books are inspiring gardening material

Since I was a kid producing food was always part of my families life. Naturally through the years I was inspired by a few authors that not to many people have heard of nowadays that you might enjoy. Ruth Stout was the first author who comes to mind http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_noss?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=ruth+stout I liked her personality and her unique at the time gardening method. Many of us still use deviations of her method to this day. She was a composter and …