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Tomato Red Pear (106-107)
Product Code:
106-107
UPC:
8.01E+12
$6.00
Our bestselling tomato! 250+ seeds per 1g packet.
Franchi's Red Pear tomato is an old North Italian variety specially selected by Franchi Sementi. It is a red, pear-shaped beefsteak. An outstanding producer of huge (as in 8-18 ounce) very tasty fruit. Great fresh eating. Early for such a large plant (70-75 days). This is not the small pear shaped tomato called red pear by U.S. seed companies. Pear shaped with vertical ribs - a must try. Really meaty containing few seeds. Indeterminate.
To see our growing guide for tomatoes, click here.
Our bestselling tomato! 250+ seeds per 1g packet.
Franchi's Red Pear tomato is an old North Italian variety specially selected by Franchi Sementi. It is a red, pear-shaped beefsteak. An outstanding producer of huge (as in 8-18 ounce) very tasty fruit. Great fresh eating. Early for such a large plant (70-75 days). This is not the small pear shaped tomato called red pear by U.S. seed companies. Pear shaped with vertical ribs - a must try. Really meaty containing few seeds. Indeterminate.
To see our growing guide for tomatoes, click here.
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Customer Reviews
33 Review
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Absolute Champ Last Summer
This was my first time with this tomato and what a wonderful surprise it was. A real champ. A Wow! - Very good taste, Good for sandwiches. salads and for tomato sauce. It was a heavy bearer over a long season. I also grew Sun Gold, New Girl and Sakura all good and each distinctive. The New Girl and Sun Gold lasted the longest with fruit into December! [SF Bay Area]
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Best sauce tomato ever
If you want to make the best sauce in the world, then grow this tomato. I will always grow this tomato and please save seed from it should you grow it, too, just in case. I cannot praise it enough and am so happy I tried it - the reviews are what made me give it a try. My plants have always grown well and produced copious amounts of tomatoes, even last season when there was leaf fungal problems - the tomatoes just shrugged it off. If big, meaty, juicy, sweet tomatoes are your thing, then you must grow Red Pear.
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Underappreciated tomato
This tomato was excellent this year in my garden. A lot of people mistake this for a canning tomato and expect canning tomato taste. However, this is actually a very flavorful fresh-eating slicer that is on the sweet side (although nicely balanced with acid) and tastes similar to oxheart varieties, which are known for great flavor. It just happens to *also* be good for canning because of its meaty structure with few seeds. It did have some problems with blossom end rot this year because of record heat waves and periods of low rain, but that's to be expected with any tomato with an elongated body shape. I'm sure it would be fine in a normal season and if I had taken more care in watering. The plant was vigorous from the beginning and was one of the first to flower and set fruit in my garden. It's also relatively disease-resistant compared to other heirlooms. It continued to set some fruit through the worst heat, then started setting a ton of fruit again as soon as temperatures cooled to normal ranges. Anyone who has been disappointed by the flavor of other ruffled tomato varieties should give this one a try.