San Marzano Redorta
First year for this variety. Grown in West Virginia and as all the others say on this site, incredibly large 8' high plants loaded with delicious tomatoes. Canned crushed Redortas in cooked down Redorta sauce. Absolutely incredible. Many friends loved these. My only question is if the seed is open pollinated? They don't have the flavor of Brandywines but they are incredibly sweet, meaty and tasty. Wonderful tomato.
Tomato San Marzano Redorta
Indianapolis, IN 2018. This is the first year I grew San Marzano Redorta. The plants are very large and may be the largest of the Roma type tomato. The plants are very disease resistant compared to most Roma types. The fruit is also very large at least double the size of other San Marzano types. The yield was not so good as most of the plants had 10 or less tomatoes. Also, the fruit at the crown was highly checked and crazed and looked really ugly. However, the fruit was perfectly fine to eat. My friends marveled at the size of the fruit and one other friend loved eating them. The fruit was solid, meaty, few seeds and made top rated spaghetti sauce. We made 4-1/2 gallons of spaghetti sauce from these and another variety of San Marzano's. I don't think I am going to grow these again next year as the yield was low and the fruits had a blemished appearance.
Dave Salamone Johnson Co. Master Gardener
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.
