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August 21, 2017 | #1 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Portland, OR
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Series of Striped Pear Tomatoes
Here are the early results of my breeding efforts to create striped, pear-shaped tomatoes!! So far, 4 very different colors. I've got an orange on the way, as well as a dark-fleshed and green-fleshed striped pear. I'm still refining the shape and flavor, but I've got lots of fixed recessives to work from now.
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August 21, 2017 | #2 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Vancouver Island
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Those are very cool. how's the flavour?
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August 21, 2017 | #3 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: Romania/Germany , z 4-6
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They look great. Shape is really good too, especially the green.
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August 21, 2017 | #4 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
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Super, and interesting. I wonder about the taste too.They look to be about 2 oz, right?
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August 21, 2017 | #5 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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Very nice! I like the size of those...
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August 21, 2017 | #6 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2006
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I like the red one.
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August 22, 2017 | #7 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2016
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They are ranging between 1-2 oz. Flavor is all over the board right now, but my goal is to breed more flavor into the pears. The dark green with red striped one is the best tasting so far - but no surprise since it has Berkeley Tie Dye in the gene pool.
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August 22, 2017 | #8 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10
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I often see flavor be great in one gen, then poor in the next but it comes back in the 3rd. Many is the abandoned project because of that, so don't give a segregate up too soon, if it was there once .
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August 22, 2017 | #9 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan
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Those all look amazing. Good luck with them.
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October 23, 2017 | #10 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Apr 2006
Location: Phoenix, AZ (zone 9b)
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Those are some very cool looking maters right there. What is the production like between them? I remember growing plain ol' Yellow Pear many years ago, and it was just crazy how many tomatoes that thing cranked out.
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October 23, 2017 | #11 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jan 2014
Location: Near Philadelphia, PA
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Nifty! Hope you have mixed some disease resistance in there. Not sure why, but I've had more trouble with yellow pears in my garden than any other variety.
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October 25, 2017 | #12 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Jun 2016
Location: Hudson Valley, NY, Zone 6a
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The colors remind me of Jelly Belly jellybeans.
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November 9, 2017 | #13 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Aug 2016
Location: Portland, OR
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The production was excellent. I even had a few seedlings (not shown in the pics) that had hypertresses and the longest hanging quality I've ever seen in a tomato. Even after the plant had died and turned brown, the tomatoes were still hanging on the vine and of really good quality. Normally yellow and red pears rot easily, but not these.
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November 10, 2017 | #14 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Feb 2012
Location: Newfoundland, Canada
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I hope you know how lucky that is!
I had shape segregations from a pear cross this year, and one of them was pear shaped. A huge number of these pears simply burst as soon as they started to ripen. I even picked a bunch green and there were still at least 30% that split off the vine when color started to develop. My impression from looking at all the shapes in that cross is that the "pear-ness" dimensions are a crapshoot, and in my case the pear shape was really unworkable. Couldn't keep a ripe one in its skin. I was glad I wasn't looking for pear! |
November 10, 2017 | #15 |
Tomatovillian™
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Greenville, South Carolina
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Ugh, now I am going to have to grow even more cherry tomatoes once you release these. Gorgeous tomatoes and good luck!
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