10'-11' plants outside chicago area
These plants got huge, and the fruit were just as big. The taste is great for sandwiches,salads and our favorite sauces and salsa. While they are susceptible to early blight if you catch it early should be able to keep it under control. The only problem is that they get so big that tomato cages are obsolete. We made a netting grid supported by steel posts up to 8' and they still fell over.
Grows well on Long Island NY
Grew this for the first time last season and plan to expand the number of plants. good number of large heavy tomatoes per plant which continued long after other types gave up. They were still setting buds when we got our first hard freeze in late November.
The taste is great in cooked dishes. Good acidity and strong tomato flavor.
good producer in Texas
These tomatoes produce both in the spring and fall in Texas. They are excellent in marinara and any cooked tomato dish, and sliced on pizzas and sandwiches.
Marzano
Seem to be doing well in our Florida garden
Unique And Excellent
Huge plant, but only one tomato. Perhaps I gave too much N? I've done that before. I picked it when just turning pink at the lower tip. Today it wasn't fully ripened but close enough, and it looked like it might not last much longer, so I tasted it. WOW. Very nice. No or little acid, not much sugar, but VERY tasty. There were subtle undertones that I can't describe, but all contributing to the overall effect. Very nice tomato! I'm going to have to make an effort to grow this one again, correctly next time.
Fabulous !
Last year was the first year that i grew this variety. I could not believe the size of these tomatoes! Great taste, very meaty!. Great sliced on a sandwich or in your sauces. I took a few to a family event. The host cut them up with a little balsamic vinegar. Everyone raved! Can't recommend this variety enough !
An Epiphany
This is the second year with this tomato. That alone says a lot since if a veggie doesn't make the cut in year one, it's history. Last year everyone who got san Marzano plants from me raved about the large fruit and the great sauce it made. OK. I made sauce from a variety of tomatoes. They were large. But until yesterday I had not tasted this tomato raw, right off the vine in the garden. Wow. It was everything a tomato can be. Not too juicy. Sweet. Complex flavors. Excellent. And productive. This cultivar is a keeper.
NJ planting
We are now getting our first harvest of Redorta in Northern Jersey with Franchi seeds. They have a bit of trouble in temperatures under 80 but once hot and humid weather came last month, the plants have grown so fast. These are very hardy tomato plants, and I have observed that they are very resistant to early blight. They produce very large tomatoes that are absolutely delicious, and are sweeter than I expected. Very versatile for sauces, pizza or just simply by itself.
wonderful
A fantastic tomato when eaten fresh and even better when used for sauce! Grew this in northern IL and the plants were vigorous and produced a good amount of tomatoes. The fruits are solid meat and almost seedless, perhaps a dozen or so seeds per tomato. The skin is thin and delicate. With these, you can easily get away with not peeling them when cooking.
The only (minor) problem with this variety is that the ripe fruit can attract bugs if left on the vine for longer than necessary. I have not had this problem with other tomato varieties (including other sauce tomatoes) and consider it a testimony to how wonderfully delicate, sweet, and delicious these tomatoes are. Everyone that I gave extra plants to raved about these.
WOW!!!
What a great tomato! We keep two gardens; Northern NJ and central CT and they did well in both places. Green tomatoes also have kept well and we are still enjoying them as they ripen at rm temp now in November! Great taste - minimal seeds and lots of meat! Use for anything, even BLTs. They do, indeed,get very tall and we used the Gardener's supply red metal trellis to run them up to about 7 feet. Highly recommend.
