Yellow Pear tomato, share your experience with me please:)

[tarpalsfan]

Hi
I grew Yellow Pear a long time ago. I don't remember any 'bads' about it. I grew it in a to small pot, but still got tomato's to eat.
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Recently someone asked me to grow Yellow Pear for them. The plants are common enough, so sure.
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Also, my friend who requested Yellow Pear....I think he must have Yellow Pear and a yellow cherry mixed up. I have never bought Yellow Pear at the store before. Now he will get Yellow Pear and Sungold too. Poor guy
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I read a lot about them, history. Titania's, Baker Creeks reviews. (not good).
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About the bad reviews...one positive said that people pick them to ripe.
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Anyway, can you tell me your experience with Yellow Pear?
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[pmcgrady]

It's a spitter and a splitter.... Worthless

[Labradors2]

It's beautiful, but has no flavor. Simply not worth the effort IMHO.

Linda

[imp]

I like both the red and the yellow pear tomatoes, at least where I have grown them- both here and in northern California.

Having made that statement, the ones I like ( and only used to save seed from) were the more "necked" ones, not the almost an oval ones. Have used them for fresh eating, sauces, salsas, and for jellies.

[carolyn137]

When I was selling to restaurants and also selling fruits at a nursery,both the red and yellow ones were in high demand. I know for me that the red pear tasted much better than the yellow.

But there are two look a likes that I like even better and those are

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Medovaya_Kaplya

http://t.tatianastomatobase.com/wiki/Yellow_Submarine

Carolyn

[Worth1]

Makes fantastic preserves.
I like the darn things.
Grew 12 one year kept on making fruit when all else gave up the ghost and no one time did one split.

Worth

[Cole_Robbie]

It's one of the most widely-hated tomatoes. I haven't grown it. But one of the comments I have read about it is that it is perfect for drying. Other cherry tomatoes make a dried product that is overly sweet. That makes sense to me.

I like two Chinese yellow pear varieties, Chang Li and Hssiao His Hung Shih. But I think any yellow cherry is going to taste unimpressive in weather that is too wet. They really seem to take it the worst.

We grew it when I was a teenager or so and it was awesome. Very astringent. Not at all mealy. Good taste. Very prolific. Very nice-looking fruits (nice when canned, too). It was bigger than most of them you hear about now, and it had green shoulders after first changing color, I think. It was from a purchased plant. (We got Red Pear, too, which was the same size. I wouldn't say either was a cherry tomato.)

By astringent, I mean it tastes like tomato leaves smell. It's not a sweet or sour taste, but kind of a grassy taste (better than that sounds, though).

I started seeds in 2015 from a packet of (Lilly Miller?) seeds packed for 2009 (excellent germination), and gave a plant to my neighbor. Her tomatoes were very small (cherry-sized), without prominent necks! I tried one or more at the end of the season, and they were very mealy and mild (not astringent at all). I was disappointed (but I saved seeds). I'm not sure if the earlier ones weren't mealy. It was quite prolific for her, and she said she enjoyed it.

I've heard that Victory Seeds has a particularly good kind of Yellow Pear. I've also heard that Beam's Yellow Pear is great. I haven't grown either.

You might like Green Pear (as found at Baker Creek). It was a lot like the first Yellow Pear I grew in shape, productivity and appearance (maybe a bit later, though, for me last year), but it tasted like a good sandwich tomato for me in 2016. I'm trying it from saved seed this year.

Medovaya Kaplya is a good, sweet alternative to Yellow Pear (it is cherry-sized, however, but the taste is excellent for fresh eating). Neither it nor Green Pear were at all mealy when I grew them in 2016. Medovaya Kaplya is potato leaf, while Yellow Pear is regular leaf.

Yellow Trifele is a like a giant version of Yellow Pear, except it gets orange. It was mealy for me in 2016, but it still had flavor somehow (a bit acidic). The plant is more compact than Yellow Pear.

[KarenO]

Pretty, almost orange when fully ripe, I think often folks pick them unripe, yellow not gold and they taste better ripe. Mild and sweetish, cute shape, children love them so worth growing if you have little ones in the family.
Much maligned but not deserving of it imo, if for no other reason than kids love them and they are easy to grow.

KarenO

[Gardeneer]

Yellow Pear and Juliet, are "hate or love" varieties.
I have grown both and am growing the latter this year. I grew YP 4 years ago (store plant) . I cannot remember any specifics about it.

[ginger2778]

In my garden I grew it once. I didn't like the taste, and also it had a mushy texture for me. I don't think I have ever grown one that was more vigorous though. I almost couldn't keep up with the suckers it produced.

[tarpalsfan]

Originally Posted by pmcgrady

It's a spitter and a splitter.... Worthless

Amazing! Word per word, exactly one of the reviews I read at at Baker Creek! Thank you for the reply.

[tarpalsfan]

Originally Posted by Labradors2

It's beautiful, but has no flavor. Simply not worth the effort IMHO.

Linda

Thanks for the reply Linda

[tarpalsfan]

Originally Posted by imp

I like both the red and the yellow pear tomatoes, at least where I have grown them- both here and in northern California.

Having made that statement, the ones I like ( and only used to save seed from) were the more "necked" ones, not the almost an oval ones. Have used them for fresh eating, sauces, salsas, and for jellies.

I traded for some Yellow Pear here. I don't know what variety it will be. I also purchased some Fargo Yellow Pear seed from the Sand Hill Preservation Center.
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If I get tomatoes I am gonna eat 'em! I like your ideas for dishes. :nod: Have you dried them? That is one thing I want to do. I don't know how to make preserves. I helped my mother long ago. But have eaten tomato preserves-wow!
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Thank you for the reply.