Chocolate Pear Tomato Seeds - (Lycopersicon lycopersicum)
- SKU:
- V1337
- Seed Count:
- Approx 25 seeds per pack
- Days to Maturity:
- 65-80 days
- Type:
- Indeterminate
- Size:
- Cherry
- Color:
- Chocolate
- Organic:
- Yes
- Days to Germination:
- 5-7 days @ 75-95F
- Light Preference:
- Full sun
- Plant Spacing:
- 12"
- Status:
- Non-Hybrid, Non-GMO seeds
Description
Chocolate Pear Tomato - Like No Other!
This pear tomato has a base of traditional light tomato red swirled with an overlay of both green and brown hues very reminiscent of the luscious black tomatoes. The overall color is deceptive, as it is not red, green or brown, but all three. Slightly tart, then slightly sweet with a very full and rich tomato flavor that bursts in the mouth. It combines the richness of a paste tomato with the sweet and tart profile of an heirloom slicer. It was developed by one of our growers through several years of painstaking selection.
As with most pear tomatoes, this is very productive over a long season and tolerant of a wide range of weather conditions and temperatures. Great for the CSA, market grower, beginning gardener, or for smaller gardens.
History
Tomatoes were grown as a crop in Mexico and Peru in pre-Columbian times, but the early history of domestication is not well known (most likely in Mexico). In Europe, tomatoes were grown as ornamentals (thought to be poisonous) and became popular as a food only in the 18th century.
Uses
Raw or cooked the tomato is one of the most widely used and versatile foods from your garden. Use fresh in salads, sandwiches, and salsas. Cooked in sauces and stews. Can be stuffed, dried, puree, paste or powdered. The uses are endless!
Growing Tip
Tomatoes take about 3 - 4 months from direct seeding in the garden to start producing fruit; about 70 days from transplanting 6 - 8 week-old plants to start fruiting; and about 40-50 days from the flower opening to producing ripe fruit.
Tomatoes suffer more transplant shock than other vegetables, but you can minimize this by hardening them off for a week or two first. This means setting them outdoors in their pots in a protected place so that they get some warm sun, a little gentle wind, and even some cool (not freezing) nights. This will help them adjust to some of the stresses of real life before having their roots transplanted into the ground.
Tomatoes begin the ripening process by producing ethylene, a natural growth regulator, and releasing it. The fruit ripens from the inside out, meaning the center matures and turns red before the color reaches the outer skin. Faint white lines crossing each other at the bottom or blossom end of the fruit show that ripening has begun. Soon afterward, the blossom end starts turning pink – indicating ethylene is being produced. When the pink blush reaches the stem, the fruit is about 75% ripe. The pink color deepens to red, starting from the blossom end and working its way upward.
Harvest Tip
A tomato’s flavor increases as it ripens, due to the increased nutrients and sugars pumped into the fruit by the plant. For a home gardener, harvesting when there is just a touch of pink at the stem end or when the fruit is completely red gives the best flavor. The fruit will be fragile, won’t tolerate shipping and must be used or cooked within a few days to enjoy peak flavor.
Once the tomato is ripe, test by giving it a gentle pull or twist. If it slips easily from the vine – with little to no effort – it is ripe, juicy, and delicious!
Ripe tomatoes can be injured by cool temperatures and must be stored at room temperatures, never refrigerated to avoid chilling injury, which leaves pockmarks or pits on the skin leading to early rotting.
If you need to harvest early due to weather or the end of the season, those fruits with a pink blush at the blossom end will ripen with almost full flavor. Those with the faint white lines can still ripen but won’t have the full flavor.
Learn More
- Determinate and Indeterminate Tomatoes - What's the Difference?
- Heirloom Tomato Growing Tips
- Heirloom Tomato Leaves - Potato Leaf vs Regular Leaf
- Blossom End Rot - What To Do
- Fermented Tomato Conserve
- Sicilian Eggplant and Tomato Sauce
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4 Reviews
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Outstanding flavor
I planted the four pear tomatoes; red,yellow, green and chocolate this year. I loved them all. The chocolate has a really outstanding flavor.
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almost like candy
These tomatoes have the best taste ever. Very, very surprisingly sweet and almost candylike. This will be one that we shall be sure to grow each year. I grow them in at greenhouse - they did not do well outside in the very rainy summer we have had here in Denmark.
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Taste Test Winner!
This tomato placed in the top 3 out of 70 new varieties we tested in Seattle this year. Excellent complex flavor & sweetness! Hold VERY well on the vine too!
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OUTSTANDING TOMATO!
This tomato placed high in our taste tests and keeps extremely well both on the vine and in the house. Great sweet, complex flavor! It grew well up North here in Seattle too. Buy it!