Cherokee Green Pear

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Cherokee Green Pear
Maturity	midseason
Growth habit	indet.
Leaf type	regular
Fruit color	green
Fruit shape	pear
Fruit size	medium
Fruit type	slicer, paste
Variety type
Country

ID DE M

Started slow, like many plants this year (in part due to being crowded), but it came to produce a fair number of large pears (quite large for pear-shaped tomatoes, I mean, but medium-sized for tomatoes). They're green when ripe, and it's difficult to know when to pick them. The taste is among the best of the 100 or so varieties I grew this year. It tasted kind of fruity (and the best-tasting one I had was afflicted with blossom-end rot: the only one on the plant I had with BER, actually). The seeds of my fruits were very, very small, but they appeared to be mature. This is another I plan to grow again (but next time in an accessible location, preferably caged, so I can easily feel how soft the fruit is).

Seed source:

dianeseeds.com (ordered 1 Jan 2016)

Year grown: 2016

Location: New Plymouth, Idaho

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History

• A perfect pear shaped green sport found on a Cherokee Green plant in 2006 (?) by Marianna Jones of Tennessee, the owner of Marianna's Heirloom Seeds and a long time SSE member.

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Related

• Cherokee Green (parent)

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Seed Availability

Year	Commercial Vendors	Seed Savers Yearbook (Member listings)	Seeds of Diversity (Member listings)
2018		.	.
2017		.	.
2016		.	.
2015		.	.
2014	Diane's Flower Seeds	.	.
2013		.	.
2012		.	.
2011	Marianna's Heirloom Seeds	.	1
2010	Marianna's Heirloom Seeds	0	.
2009	Marianna's Heirloom Seeds - new	0	.
2008		0	.
2007		0	.

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