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

[Worth1]

Originally Posted by tarpalsfan

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.

One pound of yellow pear tomatoes whole.
One cup sugar less if you want.
One cup water more if you want.
Some pectin.
1/4 teaspoon citric acid.

Add everything and cook on low until the temperature gets to 218 degrees F.
Put in jars seal and process.
The 218 F is a must for a good product.

Worth

[tarpalsfan]

Originally Posted by 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

Thank you! I followed the links you provided. The Medovaya Kaplya sounds like candy to me!
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Yellow Submarine sounds great too-but now there is a song stuck in my head
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I saved both tomatoes to my next season "try" list!
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Thanks for the reply

[tarpalsfan]

Originally Posted by 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

I read that Yellow Pear can be a tomato making machine-I know that a lot of folks don't like it, but I really am looking forward to growing it again. Thank you for the reply The I have been reading about those preserves, it sounds fantastic.

[tarpalsfan]

Originally Posted by 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 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.

I keep reading a lot of bad about it. I read it is to mild, or mealy.
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IF I can get any small tomatoes into my house, those not devoured right off the plant, or not in a salad-do go into my dehydrator.
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I will look up the Chinese tomatoes you mentioned(they are on a look up list).
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As for hot and dry. That about sums it up here in the summer. I am originally from S. Texas-but it is hot as Hades here too. I hope the Yellow Pear likes it hot
Thank you for the reply,

[AlittleSalt]

Most of what I have read about yellow pear is that they have no taste. Now look at this thread - most of those that think it tastes bad are northern gardeners. They must taste different grown in the southern parts. I've grown then many times. I like them in a salad because they don't overpower taste-wise everything else in the salad.

If you do want an alternative that looks a lot like them - Medovaya Kaplya does have a lot more taste.

[carolyn137]

For all who grow the same variety there are those who love it and those who call it a spitter.

Just too many darn variables at work depending on where you live,how you grow your tomatoes, what was the season like when you grew it,there are human genes that determine how we perceive taste,and on and on.

When I was listing many varieties in the annual SSE Yearbook, there were varieties that as grown by me weren't spitters,just OK, and some who got the seeds said they were outstanding.

Same with varieties I've offered here in seed offers since Jan of 2007 and ones before that elsewhere although there was one that everyone hated, it was from South America,and I can't remember the name right now,but almost everyone referred to it as SOUR.

But I suggest that folks don't always rely on the comments of others as to growth,yield,taste,etc, for a variety as I noted re the variables above.And beware certain seed vendor sites that say ALL varieties are outstanding.

Most of the time they have bought seed and not grown the plants themselves nor saved their own seed,so maybe good to consider buying from those companies that DO grow their own varieties and sell those seeds.

Nope,I'm not here to defend red or yellow pears or the two others I linked to and several have noted others here I've also grown, and no comments on those either.

Carolyn

[Cheryl2017]

I grew it once. For me, I had copious amounts of tasteless tomatoes that I gave away by the bagfuls. One day I Was dehydrating Principie Borgesse and I got the brilliant idea to throw in some yellow pear. To my absolute delight, they quite wonderfully dehydrated. And it tasted like tomatoes!! That was 2013 and it has never come close to making my list again. Lol

[tarpalsfan]

Originally Posted by shule1

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.

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The Yellow Pear I grew had to be from a store bought plant too, if I'd had grown it from seed there would have been several plants. What you said about the fruit just changing color-maybe that is when it taste best?
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I heard of people not liking the tomato plants smell. I like the way they smell.
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Lilly Miller? I haven't heard of that seed merchant before, but that was great germination from '09 seed.
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I know that Sand Hill has several Yellow Pear, and I bet that Tatianas.com has some varieties too.
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I was looking at Green Pear in my B.C catalog. I haven't grown them, but I have grown Black Pear-the plants grew well here, and made LOTS of tomatoes. When it rained, they split-but I still ate them. They weren't greatest flavored tomato-but I still liked them enough to snack on them right in the garden.
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OH GASP! Did I just read: TOMATO SANDWICH? Torture! Don't make me resort to store tomato-tomato sandwich...and the first summer tomato is so far away!
Thanks for the reply!

[tarpalsfan]

Originally Posted by Worth1

One pound of yellow pear tomatoes whole.
One cup sugar less if you want.
One cup water more if you want.
Some pectin.
1/4 teaspoon citric acid.

Add everything and cook on low until the temperature gets to 118 degrees F.
Put in jars seal and process.
The 118 F is a must for a good product.

Worth

Thank you! Saved!

[tarpalsfan]

Originally Posted by 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

Hi
You grow them and pick them when they are fully ripe?
I also read to pick them when the just change from green to yellow.
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I do know that I will enjoy growing yellow pear, and and my child is an adult know, but I do have 4 year old niece-I bet both of us will love them. Thank you for the reply

[tarpalsfan]

Originally Posted by AlittleSalt

Most of what I have read about yellow pear is that they have no taste. Now look at this thread - most of those that think it tastes bad are northern gardeners. They must taste different grown in the southern parts. I've grown then many times. I like them in a salad because they don't overpower taste-wise everything else in the salad.
Hi,
I did notice that when I read reviews at B.C. :nod: (that the Yellow Pear did poorly in the Northern States).
Lots of people seem to not like white tomatoes very much, as they think they are very mild flavored. I think that might have something to do with environment too. I grew White Tomesel (?) before , and I thought it was a good tomato.

If you do want an alternative that looks a lot like them - Medovaya Kaplya does have a lot more taste.

[tarpalsfan]

[QUOTE=carolyn137;632120]For all who grow the same variety there are those who love it and those who call it a spitter.

Just too many darn variables at work depending on where you live,how you grow your tomatoes, what was the season like when you grew it,there are human genes that determine how we perceive taste,and on and on.

When I was listing many varieties in the annual SSE Yearbook, there were varieties that as grown by me weren't spitters,just OK, and some who got the seeds said they were outstanding.

Same with varieties I've offered here in seed offers since Jan of 2007 and ones before that elsewhere although there was one that everyone hated, it was from South America,and I can't remember the name right now,but almost everyone referred to it as SOUR.

But I suggest that folks don't always rely on the comments of others as to growth,yield,taste,etc, for a variety as I noted re the variables above.And beware certain seed vendor sites that say ALL varieties are outstanding.

Most of the time they have bought seed and not grown the plants themselves nor saved their own seed,so maybe good to consider buying from those companies that DO grow their own varieties and sell those seeds.

Nope,I'm not here to defend red or yellow pears or the two others I linked to and several have noted others here I've also grown, and no comments on those either.

Carolyn[/QUOTE
Wonderful reply, thank you
This is a little off target-but you mentioned a sour tomato? I once grew Reisetomate. Was that it, I wonder. It was rather tart.?
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Thank you for the great reply

[imp]

For personal taste, try the yellow pears at various stages of ripeness. I like mine fully ripe, but some others have liked them less ripened.

And yes, they dry well- I just split them in half, take the seeds and gel out and dry them with a pinch of salt ( Salt is not required, I just like it that way). The pear tomatoes also make good jellies/preserves and pickle well. A rough chop and into the salsa bowl they go, or in salads and sauces. Of course, I will make sauce out of almost any tomato when they are running strong or I need to fill up a pot. As a sugared preserved tomato, they become a slightly chewy candy.

As I tend to try to do with the Early Girl indeterminate I sometimes grow, water is with held a bit as the tomatoes ripen, then water normally until the next big flush sets. On the pears, sometimes the "first" flush doesn't seem to stop, LOL, so they can be heavy feeders.

But that is just my experience in a warmer climate, your mileage may vary.

[Worth1]

In my recipe for tomato preserves I changed the temperature from 118F to 218F, it was a mistake on my part.
This is above the boiling point of water and it has helped me greatly in getting stuff to set up.
Worth

[Nan_PA_6b]

I plant Yellow Pear every year for my DH. It tastes mildly sweet. I don't know what version people are growing that is a spitter: that implies bad taste. The one I grow is very mild and not offensive.

It is a huge plant, produces like a machine, performs with less than optimum light, thrives on neglect. The fruits do tend to split. If it's a clean split, you can just cut the fruit in half along the split and put the halves into a dehydrator. The flavor is concentrated in a dehydrated tomato, and my Yellow Pears make EXCELLENT tomato chips. Note: I do not scoop out gel or add salt.

Nan