Japanese Black Trifele - Page 2

**nctomatoman** · March 20, 2008

My experience with JTB was fairly ho-hum; I grew it out in the year I had so many black fruited varieties in the garden. Potato leaf foliage, small to medium uniquely shaped (more of a true pear - as in the fruit pear - than any others I grew. Was a red/black, or brown fruited variety with fair to good flavor, and it did not handle my conditions well - met an early demise to disease. Pics of unripe and ripe fruit attached.

Tomstrees · March 20, 2008

The shape looks pretty cool Craig.
In my area, PL's handle disease a lot better than the RL's.

Also we're growing the "mystery black" (RL) and Black Pear (PL) -
I'll be able to see how all of these compare -

~ Tom

ps. finding sprouts this morning from my 3/15 sowing,
I found a Black Pear emerge.

Andrey_BY · March 20, 2008

As far as I remember orange ones has RL foliage...

March 20, 2008	#17
Tomstrees Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: NJ Bayshore Posts: 3,848	The shape looks pretty cool Craig. In my area, PL's handle disease a lot better than the RL's. Also we're growing the "mystery black" (RL) and Black Pear (PL) - I'll be able to see how all of these compare - ~ Tom ps. finding sprouts this morning from my 3/15 sowing, I found a Black Pear emerge. __________________ My green thumb came only as a result of the mistakes I made while learning to see things from the plant's point of view. ~ H. Fred Ale

March 20, 2008	#18
Andrey_BY Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Minsk, Belarus, Eastern Europe (Zone 4a) Posts: 2,278	As far as I remember orange ones has RL foliage... __________________ 1 kg=2.2 lb , 1 m=39,37 in , 1 oz=28.35 g , 1 ft=30.48 cm , 1 lb= 0,4536 kg , 1 in=2.54 cm , 1 l = 0.26 gallon , 0 C=32 F Andrey a.k.a. TOMATODOR