Iridium Quality Fruit

[ValleyGirl]

Is the more profitable to sell this or make it into preserves or wine?

All my greenhouse fruit is now iridium quality, so wondering what to do with it to make the most money?

 

[Elenna101]

Definitely more profitable to make it into wine (assuming you have enough kegs). Jarring/kegging crops will always increase the sell price regardless of quality.

For exact numbers: Iridium quality doubles the sell price of an item. Jarring crops doubles the sell price and adds 50. Kegs triple the sell price of fruit, but for veggies they only multiply the sell price by 2.25. Regardless it's better than the iridium sell price.

 

[ValleyGirl]

Excellent - thanks.

Numbers are not my forté so I never know what is most profitable.

 

[Lenora Rose]

But kegs take longer so some people have said you can get more preserves for the time spent.

 

[Elenna101]

But kegs take longer so some people have said you can get more preserves for the time spent.

True, but the end result with wine sells for more. Depends if you need the money urgently, and if you have enough kegs to wine everything or if it would be displacing more valuable stuff.

 

[PoppyForPenny]

Iridium apricots, for example, sell for 100, 110 if you're a Tiller. Apricot jam or unaged wine sells for 150 or 210 with Artisan. Each tree fruit has a wiki page with all the sale prices for professions, quality levels, and products.

An interesting exception is blackberries. Iridium blackberries with bear's knowledge are worth 132g each! More than any blackberry jam or wine unless it's fully aged with Artisan!

 

[Lenora Rose]

I think the math works out to less per shipment but more shipments. So 3 shipments of five vs 2 shipments of seven type math. I don't know when the break point is, and once you've got iridium level fruits and ancient fruit, it may flip the other way again. (as in, regular fruit is equivalent to 2/7 but iridium is 2/9)

I have a bunch of each because I prefer to have lots of stuff to focusing only on maxing cash.

 

[Lew Zealand]

Here's my breakdown for Kegs vs. Preserves Jars:

Preserves Jars give you a little more g per time spent, but you need to fill them about twice a week so they use up more Fruit/Vegetables
Kegs give you a little more g per individual Fruit/Veg but you're waiting a week for production, though they use fewer Fruit/Vegs

Kegs and Jars also have a few items which can only go in one (eg.: Coffee in Kegs, Roe in Jars), which makes that choice easy.

Here's what I do:

Fill all your Kegs with your best stuff (Ancient Fruit, Starfruit, maybe Pumpkin, Red Cabbage, Melon, Cauli) and use Preserves Jars for the rest. If you absolutely need g as fast as possible, maybe Jar during that time for the extra g and go back to Kegs when you're done.

One other key thing: What do you have the most resources for making? Kegs and Jars use different materials. And you get Jars pretty early and Kegs later in game so your choice is forced early on.

 

[LRangerR]

I just want to point out that Preserves Jars and Kegs calculate vegetables differently from fruits, giving you a different income for juice/wine and pickles/fruits. Pickles are almost always more profitable than juice, so it's advisable to send all your veggies to the jars. (Another anomaly I noticed is that Hot Pepper Jam is more profitable than Wine. Odd)

 

[Lew Zealand]

I just want to point out that Preserves Jars and Kegs calculate vegetables differently from fruits, giving you a different income for juice/wine and pickles/fruits. Pickles are almost always more profitable than juice, so it's advisable to send all your veggies to the jars. (Another anomaly I noticed is that Hot Pepper Jam is more profitable than Wine. Odd)

Interesting as that's pretty much how it works out when I play. My the time the Greenhouse it open for business (Fall Y1 to Spring Y2, depending). I'm usually Kegging the Starfruit and Ancient Fruit and Jarring Pumpkins, then Cauli, then Melons, and if I find I'm accumulating Ancient Fruit, I'll Jar some of that, too. By Summer Year 2 I have Red Cabbage to replace Melons and my Jarring ends up being all Veg.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

But kegs take longer so some people have said you can get more preserves for the time spent.

Depends, to put it into bare laymans terms and in a sense fo the smallest operation possible, if you have more produce than machines jars can be better and vice versa for kegs.

 

[FilthyGorilla]

I just want to point out that Preserves Jars and Kegs calculate vegetables differently from fruits, giving you a different income for juice/wine and pickles/fruits. Pickles are almost always more profitable than juice, so it's advisable to send all your veggies to the jars. (Another anomaly I noticed is that Hot Pepper Jam is more profitable than Wine. Odd)

It's mostly because of the low base price, if you think about it, any crop under 50g base price will be more valuable as a jarred good rather than kegged as the 50 adds more than an extra 1x would.
For example: a crop with a theorhetical base sell price of 40g would sell as an unaged wine as 120g, juice as 90g and jam and pickled as 130g.