1 / 4open-pollinated
Roma
Also sold as: Roma 54
Original 1955 USDA Roma: compact determinate red paste tomato bred from Pan America, San Marzano and Red Top for fleshy processing fruit.
- Shape
- Oval / ellipsoid
- Fruit type
- Plum / Roma
- Growth habit
- Determinate / bush
- Where it grows
- Both
- Typical fruit weight
- 71 g (57–85 g)
- Days to maturity
- 78 days (75–80) from transplant
- Sweetness
- Medium
- Flavour intensity
- Medium
- Productivity
- High
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Growing advice
- Containers
- Suitable for containers
- Support needed
- Moderate
- Growing notes
- Grow as a determinate bush in a cage or with short stakes. Allow fruit to ripen fully for sauce, do not prune as an indeterminate cordon.
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