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[Steve <sdw12986@aol.com>]

Hi fluff,
I haven't grown yellow pear for at least a decade, so I can't help you 
with seeds. I have a question though.
Are you still living where the yellow pear of your youth was grown? You 
didn't move a thousand miles away to a completely different climate did 
you? You know that some tomatoes are great in some locations and not others.

Steve




fuwa fuwa usagi wrote:
> 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