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  • From: "fuwa fuwa usagi" <fuwafuwausagi@muchomail.com>
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  • Subject: [NAFEX] Well a tomato is a fruit...in search of Yellow Pear
  • Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 21:58:17 -0700

Gang:

The fluffy one is sad, older now, and sadly potentially facing changing taste
buds I no longer can grow a yellow pear tomato that matches my memories from
decades ago.

I usually grow a potpourri of tomatoes, and I fondly remember the yellow pear
of my youth ,a pleasant mild tasting, low acid tomato that was wonderful when
mixed with sharper tomatoes like a Super Beefsteak or Better Boy. Now a
committed full flavor tomato heirloom snob (yeah I still grow Hybrids like
Super Beefsteak, Sweet100 and Better Boy too, just in case) I really miss the
remembered taste of the Yellow Pear from days gone your in salads and salsas
for a contrast.

I have tried several commercial sources and none are producing the tomatoes
of my memory. What I am getting are ungoshly bland, mushy textured tomatoes
that frankly are not worth the space they occupy other than for eye appeal.

What I suspect is there are many strains of yellow pear and I simply have not
lucked out enough to get the right one. I do know if I encounter it again I
will save the darn seeds.

Anyways, I thought I would put in a request to the good folks at NAFEX that
if anyone has a good strain of yellow pear they save seed from if you could
spare a few, say 5-10 seeds, so I can get something going next year that is
worth a dran

Obviously we can swap something, all I want is a few starter seeds of a know
good parent.

I thank you for any consideration your give this matter,

the fluffy one



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