Series of Striped Pear Tomatoes

katwest · August 21, 2017

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.

KarenO · August 21, 2017

Those are very cool. how's the flavour?
KarenO

zipcode · August 21, 2017

They look great. Shape is really good too, especially the green.

ginger2778 · August 21, 2017

Super, and interesting. I wonder about the taste too.They look to be about 2 oz, right?

bower · August 21, 2017

Very nice! I like the size of those...

Worth1 · August 21, 2017

I like the red one.
Worth Lee.

katwest · August 22, 2017

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.

ginger2778 · August 22, 2017

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 .

nancyruhl · August 22, 2017

Those all look amazing. Good luck with them.

sirtanon · October 23, 2017

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.

PhilaGardener · October 23, 2017

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.

HudsonValley · October 25, 2017

The colors remind me of Jelly Belly jellybeans.

katwest · November 9, 2017

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.

bower · November 10, 2017

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!

BigVanVader · November 10, 2017

Ugh, now I am going to have to grow even more cherry tomatoes once you release these. Gorgeous tomatoes and good luck!

October 23, 2017	#10
sirtanon Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2006 Location: Phoenix, AZ (zone 9b) Posts: 796	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. __________________ I could sail by on the winds of silence, and maybe they won't notice... but this time I think it would be better if I swim..

August 21, 2017	#2
KarenO Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Oct 2012 Location: Vancouver Island Posts: 5,931	Those are very cool. how's the flavour? KarenO

August 21, 2017	#3
zipcode Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2010 Location: Romania/Germany , z 4-6 Posts: 1,582	They look great. Shape is really good too, especially the green.

August 21, 2017	#4
ginger2778 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2011 Location: Plantation, Florida zone 10 Posts: 9,283	Super, and interesting. I wonder about the taste too.They look to be about 2 oz, right?

August 21, 2017	#5
bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,794	Very nice! I like the size of those...

August 21, 2017	#6
Worth1 Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Den of Drunken Fools Posts: 38,539	I like the red one. Worth Lee.

August 22, 2017	#7
katwest Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 19	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.

August 22, 2017	#9
nancyruhl Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Apr 2010 Location: Metro Detroit, Michigan Posts: 1,051	Those all look amazing. Good luck with them.

October 23, 2017	#11
PhilaGardener Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2014 Location: Near Philadelphia, PA Posts: 1,940	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.

October 25, 2017	#12
HudsonValley Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Hudson Valley, NY, Zone 6a Posts: 626	The colors remind me of Jelly Belly jellybeans.

November 9, 2017	#13
katwest Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Aug 2016 Location: Portland, OR Posts: 19	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.

November 10, 2017	#14
bower Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2012 Location: Newfoundland, Canada Posts: 6,794	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
BigVanVader Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Mar 2014 Location: Greenville, South Carolina Posts: 3,099	Ugh, now I am going to have to grow even more cherry tomatoes once you release these. Gorgeous tomatoes and good luck!