{"id":7030,"date":"2026-11-03T13:39:14","date_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:39:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/?p=7030"},"modified":"2026-11-03T13:39:14","modified_gmt":"2026-11-03T13:39:14","slug":"pera-dabruzzo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomat-pomidor.com\/en\/pera-dabruzzo\/","title":{"rendered":"Pera D’Abruzzo (Abruzzo) Tomato Review & Photos"},"content":{"rendered":"\n\n
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\ud83c\udf45 Quick take:<\/strong> Pera D\u2019Abruzzo<\/strong> (frequently traded simply as Abruzzo<\/em>) is an ancient indeterminate<\/strong> Italian heirloom originating from the coastal and mountainous Abruzzo region. It bears heavy clusters of large, deeply ribbed, bell- or pear-shaped red beefsteaks weighing 7 to 12.7 oz (200-360 g)<\/strong>, with pruned plants capable of pushing 2.2 lb (1 kg)<\/strong>. Celebrated as an unstoppable workhorse<\/strong>, growers consistently harvest 25 to 30+ dense, nearly hollow-free fruits per vine that excel for rich sauces, fresh slicing, and long counter storage. Full summary \u2193<\/a><\/div>\n

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Growers’ Notes and Photos (USDA Zones 3-5 & 7 Experience)<\/h2>\n

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Nadia (Nadezhda) \u2b50 Pro Grower (10,765 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n
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A truly worthy variety with outstanding yields.<\/p>\n

Last year it was among the absolute most delicious tomatoes in my garden: meaty, with a balanced flavor that leaned heavily sweet. This year the yield was identical, but the flavor turned out rather bland. A cold, gloomy July clearly did its dirty work.<\/p>\n

Edited February 14, 2017 by Drosera<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sowed indoors on March 5 using commercial packet seeds, and they took forever to germinate. Trained the vine to four main stems. I did not leave standard suckers; the main vine just forks naturally. Even with large fruit, the plant carries all four leaders without missing a beat.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Nadia, don’t you think this variety lost the word “pear” in translation and was originally named Pera D\u2019Abruzzo (Pear of Abruzzo)? Or was the official commercial name just Abruzzo without any mention of a pear?<\/p>\n

Also, when posting variety logs, it helps to mention whether it is determinate or indeterminate.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Alexander, my seeds were from Elcom, and the packet was simply labeled Abruzzo. Just recently I came across the name Pera D\u2019Abruzzo in a German tomato atlas, so I wasn’t sure which naming convention to use.<\/p>\n

It is an indeterminate vine, tops out right around 6 ft (1.8 m).<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Svetikk (Svetlana) \u2b50 Pro Grower (29,813 posts)<\/span><\/div>\n
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I grew this exact variety as well from Elcom seeds. The picture on the packet did not quite match the actual fruit, but the written description was spot on: early large slicer for greenhouses, climbing to 6.5 ft (2 m), glossy red, deeply ribbed, pear-shaped fruits averaging 10.5 oz (300 g), excellent for fresh salads, paste, and sauce.<\/p>\n

I bought the seeds based on the vendor’s recommendation at their booth; she grew it herself, loved it, and warned me that the real fruits turn out much more pear-shaped than the photo on the envelope.<\/p>\n

An absolute workhorse of a variety! Set fruit without missing a single truss, yielding 28 tomatoes on one vine. Fruit weight averaged 7 oz (200 g), with top fruits hitting 12.7 oz (360 g). Ran two vines, one in a hoop house and one in a polycarb greenhouse, both pruned to two stems.<\/p>\n

Classic rich tomato flavor, kept very well on the counter, and the interior is dense, fleshy, and practically hollow-free. Here it is side-by-side with my other pear-shaped varieties:<\/p>\n

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Really enjoyed this one. Meaty, flavorful fruits that work equally well for fresh eating or canning into sauce.<\/p>\n

In cooler conditions, the ribbing becomes much more pronounced. When grown outdoors in the open garden, the tomatoes were noticeably more pleated.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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At first I figured I had an off-type mix-up, but it really is Abruzzo.<\/p>\n

It dropped blossoms heavily during mid-summer heat, but the fruit that did set blew up like balloons! The biggest ones ended up pushing close to 2.2 lb (1 kg).<\/p>\n

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Very mixed feelings on this one. Mid-season maturity, tall vine, and set a ton of fruit. Real heavyweights too.<\/p>\n

However, the taste completely fell flat for me: the fruit tops stayed yellow-green and under-ripe, while the core was white and dry. Almost the entire harvest had to be relegated to cooking and sauce. Maybe it was just our weird summer weather. Hard to decide whether to give it another shot, but the sheer yield is tempting.<\/p>\n

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Follow-up on my harvest: just yesterday I picked another 11 tomatoes off that single vine in the unheated greenhouse at the mature-green stage, all weighing 7 to 10.5 oz (200-300 g). I have honestly never seen a yield like this before. If I had known it was a record contender, I would have tallied every single fruit from day one.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Crazy productive, fuss-free variety from the Italian pear\/pouch family. Set fruit reliably despite cold Siberian swings and poor greenhouse placement. Great all-around utility tomato.\"Pera<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Not just a simple pear, but deeply fluted and pleated. Before they started coloring up, I kept confusing them with Pink Fig (Rozovyi Inzhir). Not quite as heavy a cropper as Fig yet, but we will get it dialed in.<\/p>\n

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Delicious, sweet, with no hollow cavities inside. Skin is slightly on the firmer side. Great for fresh slicing and canning. Definitely keeping it on the grow list.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Pera D\u2019Abruzzo (Abruzzo). Running it again from my own saved seed stock.<\/p>\n

Grew in the greenhouse, leaned late-season for me this summer. Total looker, delicious, and holds its quality in storage. Yield was very solid.<\/p>\n

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Abruzzo (Pera D\u2019Abruzzo). Brought back this dependable beauty.<\/p>\n

Summer was brutal here (cold and persistently soggy) even inside the greenhouses, but Abruzzo did not flinch, setting fruit straight to the ceiling. The last batch of green fruit picked right before hard late-September frosts ripened indoors and held in perfect shape through late October.<\/p>\n

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Full Summary: Plant Stature, Yield, Texture and Heat Demands<\/h2>\n