• Our bestselling tomato and for good reason! Huge, meaty, flavorful, few seeds, a good producer....so many attributes make this our #1 customer favorite.
  • Red Pear bears lots of tomatoes even in hot summers.
  • These beefsteaks are meaty with few seeds. Perfect for fresh eating or cooking.
  • The Red Pears grown in our garden are even prettier than the tomato on the packet.
  • Red Pears can vary from about a half pound to more than a pound, and the large ones are just as meaty as the smaller ones.
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Tomato Red Pear (106-107)

Tomato Red Pear (106-107)

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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.

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Dave
Closest to perfect I have grown.

It is early, prolific, produces all season here in Portland, Oregon. The starts were put out in mid May. My first ripe tomato appeared within 60 days of setting out. The bulk I have picked in the last week of August and first week of September. I got 30 lbs. from five plants in the past few days of early September. Meaty and sweet. No diseases. Good fresh and for canning sauce. Closest tomato to perfect I have grown.

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Shannon Robinson
Best tomato I’ve grown

I live in a tomato producing area, but am always disappointed with what’s on offer. Nothing lives up to my memories of tomatoes from childhood tomato raids on my families garden. Nothing till now. The red pear is it. All that warm sunshine perfect tomato taste of my memories. It took me straight back to my childhood. I’m only growing 3 plants in homemade cages from concrete reinforcement wire. 3 ft diameter and 5 ft tall. They are completely filled by June. I actually had to prune them a bit to control them. Between the 3 plants I estimate that I may have as many as 80 large fruits. I have only lost one fruit to blossom end rot, and two to caterpillars. No disease, no sunburning (I’m in Central Valley of California), and loads of amazing fruit. I will definitely save seed to keep this beauty in my garden forever. Thank you Seeds from Italy for sharing this variety with us. Superior tomato.

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jfriedman
Tomato, Franchi select, red pear

An absolute garden champion. Nicely productive, hardy with a long season, the tomatoes were delicious in sandwiches, salads, on spaghetti, had wonderful flavor; so versatile, delicious raw or cooked.

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John
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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Tess Castiglione
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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