Red Pear is an original, tall, mid-early tomato (Solanum lycopersicum) variety from the Polish seed company W. Legutko. It is intended for growing outdoors with stakes.
Variety characteristics
- Maturity: mid-early
- Growth type: tall, vigorous
- Fruit weight: about 250 g
- Fruit shape: pouch (pear) shaped
- Colour: green shoulder at first, fully red when ripe
- Flesh: fleshy, with a small amount of seeds
- Taste: exceptionally sweet and tasty
Growing
- Sowing for seedlings: March to early April, 0.5 cm deep
- Pricking out: 10×10 cm or into individual pots 8–10 cm in diameter
- Planting out: May, spacing 50×50 cm
- Harvest: July–September
- Care: needs staking and pruning, best trained to 1–2 stems
- Site: sunny; humus-rich soil and heavy fertilisation required
Product information
- Brand: W. Legutko (Poland)
- Variety: Red Pear
- Latin name: Solanum lycopersicum
- Seed quantity: 0.5 g (on average 470 seeds per 1 g)
- Barcode: 5903837462841
Seeds intended for amateur cultivation only.