Best Red Pear type(large version)? - Page 2

FILMNET · January 3, 2013

Yes its great, and a really great flavor like old red tomatoes

Father'sDaughter · January 3, 2013

I'll offer another favorable vote for the Franchi Red Pear. I grew it last year and if it does as well again this year, it will have earned a permanent spot in my garden.

WhippoorwillG · January 4, 2013

I grew Coure di bue Riviera, I think from Territorial Seed.

I have grown it a couple of seasons and really like it. It is a bottom heavy pear with some slight pleating, bright red color, and meaty fruit. It also produces into the heat a few weeks longer than most other varieties I grow. Thick stems with sparse foliage.

Flavor is consistantly good (not excellent), and slices are gorgeous.

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Douglas14 · January 6, 2013

Thanks for all the replies.
Thanks for the seed offer Lakelady. I'm just in the planning phase for tomatoes for 2013. I'll PM you if I do decide to take you up on your offer.

Wi-sunflower · January 6, 2013

Coure di bue Riviera

Good to hear the report on that one.

I have 2 commercial seed packs someone sent me in a trade. They are in a couple of Slavic languages I can only partly figure out. But it does have the English word "Riviera" and some other words that I recognize as another version of "Coure di bue". "Serdiste" or something like that.

So I will probably try them this year.

Carol

January 4, 2013	#18
WhippoorwillG Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2012 Location: Hartwell, Georgia Posts: 174	I grew Coure di bue Riviera, I think from Territorial Seed. I have grown it a couple of seasons and really like it. It is a bottom heavy pear with some slight pleating, bright red color, and meaty fruit. It also produces into the heat a few weeks longer than most other varieties I grow. Thick stems with sparse foliage. Flavor is consistantly good (not excellent), and slices are gorgeous. Sent from my Galaxy Nexus using Tapatalk 2 __________________ Mark Whippoorwill Gardens

January 3, 2013	#16
FILMNET Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2009 Location: North Charleston,South Carolina, USA Posts: 1,803	Yes its great, and a really great flavor like old red tomatoes

January 3, 2013	#17
Father'sDaughter Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2011 Location: MA/NH Border Posts: 4,919	I'll offer another favorable vote for the Franchi Red Pear. I grew it last year and if it does as well again this year, it will have earned a permanent spot in my garden.

January 6, 2013	#19
Douglas14 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2007 Location: Minnesota Posts: 602	Thanks for all the replies. Thanks for the seed offer Lakelady. I'm just in the planning phase for tomatoes for 2013. I'll PM you if I do decide to take you up on your offer.

January 6, 2013	#20
Wi-sunflower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Nov 2008 Location: Wisconsin Posts: 2,591	Coure di bue Riviera Good to hear the report on that one. I have 2 commercial seed packs someone sent me in a trade. They are in a couple of Slavic languages I can only partly figure out. But it does have the English word "Riviera" and some other words that I recognize as another version of "Coure di bue". "Serdiste" or something like that. So I will probably try them this year. Carol