Reif Italian Heart

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Reif Italian Heart
Maturity midseason
Growth habit indet.
Leaf type regular
Fruit color red
Fruit shape heart
Fruit size large
Fruit type paste, slicer, cooking
Variety type
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Indet. vigorous plant with wispy regular foliage and droopy appearance, and huge flowers that produce very large red heart-shapes fruits, from 9.5 oz to 1+ lb, which are sweet and have great flavor. The fruits that set in the heat of summer can have empty seed cavities and drier flesh, I like the early fruits the best. Although Carolyn Male notes that it is the same variety as Reif Red Heart, I found them different growing these two side-by-side. The Reif Italian Heart strain has larger blooms and larger fruits, and does not have such a bright red color as the Reif Red Heart strain I grew in 2007.

Seed source:

Howard Essl, Maryland 07 / Johnny's Selected Seeds 97

Year grown: 2006

Location: Zone 7b, PNW, Anmore, BC, Canada (760 ft above sea level)


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90 days, indet., regular leaf plant with a fair yield of 1 lb, red, heart shaped fruit, excellent flavor.
Source 
WI MI B 96 (Bill Minkey of Darien, Wisconsin)

Location: Oblong, Illinois


History

  • Family heirloom from Italy; seeds collected by J. Reif, Pennsylvania, from an elderly Italian man.

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