OK What kind of Tomatos did I grow?

[paplinker]

OK What kind of tomato did I grow this summer?

While at work I had a customer give me a seedling of a tomato plant that a relative had brought back from Italy about twenty years ago. No one knows exactly what it is but this family saves some seeds each year and keeps it going.

I have heard it resembles a Roma or an Heirloom but its not quite like other I have seen.

Cut open it is very dark red,mostly meat with very little gelatin?

Some have a very pronounced point,some do not

leaves are different than what i am used to seeing.

Grew to roughly 11-12 feet tall but it does not grow wide like most tomato plants.

It seems also to be a late producer as I was getting two a week until mid August but now they are maybe 4 a week. Still a lot of young ones at the top.

 

[Old_Cop]

Don't know, but you must have used a lot of Miracle Grow.

 

[kwselke]

Their are several thousand named varieties of tomatoes. There are thousands more heirloom varieties that individuals have saved and over generations, which have never been marketed. Your tomato is a paste variety. It resembles this Opalka Tomato Seeds - Tomato Growers Supply Company. You need to see the plants and the fruit side by side to determine if they are the same. Either that or know a lot more about tomato varieties than I do.

 

[tlay]

It is a type of Roma from Italy.

 

[paplinker]

Don't know, but you must have used a lot of Miracle Grow.

Planted it in a whole bag of miracle grow.

Once a month liquid miracle grow, and a little calcium spray as a couple had end rot.

 

[Zipdog]

Maybe San Marzano.

 

[blasterp7]

Absolutely San Marzano! We are harvesting them now...Extremely tasty - Wife says that's all she wants to plant next year

 

[chuckie]

San Marzanos make great sauce!

 

[Muss Muggins]

How do they taste?

 

[Whitwabit]

Appears to be a type of Roma or what is called a plum tomato .. least that is what we call them ..
You might have gotten a plant that was a hybrid of some type since the plant also got so much larger then normal ..

My wife makes catsup or tomato paste for cooking with them and there good in home made salsa also !!

 

[paplinker]

How do they taste?

Well I don't actually eat raw tomatoes except maybe a cherry one but I intend to try to make a homemade salsa.

Girlfriend likes them but not anymore than the beefsteak variety in the garden. The look of the inside is a bit different.

 

[paplinker]

Appears to be a type of Roma or what is called a plum tomato .. least that is what we call them ..
You might have gotten a plant that was a hybrid of some type since the plant also got so much larger then normal ..

My wife makes catsup or tomato paste for cooking with them and there good in home made salsa also !!

Hoping to make a salsa this weekend, also going to try to stew some.

 

[paplinker]

Absolutely San Marzano! We are harvesting them now...Extremely tasty - Wife says that's all she wants to plant next year

Is it common for these to grow this tall?

It has been a very wet and humid summer here in Pa.

The big boy tomatoes hit ten foot but got very wide.

 

[Nevada Ed]

You would have to slice quite a while for that little guy to make a good BLT !!

Might be great for salsa, though.

 

[Muss Muggins]

Well I don't actually eat raw tomatoes except maybe a cherry one . . .

Grandma Muggins would tell you "Son, you're missin' a blessin' . . . "

 

[Bakebfr480]

Isn't it illegal to smuggle fruit and vegetables from another country?

 

[VM]

Rich, Miss Lisa says they look like cross between Romas and jalapenos.

 

[TomkinsSP]

Rich, Miss Lisa says they look like cross between Romas and jalapenos.

Tomatoes and Peppers are closely related and can cross polenate if planted too close together. The result is Dreck.

 

[VM]

Rich - Lisa found a picture on the net that is identical to your tomatoes.
They are "Paste" tomatoes and the description is same as yours.

 

[RGVshooter]

it's a San Marzano tomato.... It's a type of heirloom plant that is a open pollinated variety of tomato that grows true from seed to seed. (self pollinates, it doesn't cross pollinate) The plant originally came from San Marzano which is near Naples Italy. The flesh is thicker, fewer seeds and the flavor is stronger, sweeter & less acidic than other tomatoes. because it breeds true from generation to generation, it is very popular among gardeners that saves seeds.

My Credentials? My grandparents immigrated from Luxembourg & owned/operated one of the first greenhouses just north of Chicago.