Roma VF Tomato
Price: $3.07
SKU: 3400441175 days, semi-determinate —'Roma VF' has regular-leaf plants that produce plum-shaped, bright red, paste-type tomatoes. The fruit average about two ounces and have a high solids to juice ratio making them ideal for paste, sauces or puree. Adapted for the United States and Canada, it was originally introduced in 1963.
Bred by the Joseph Harris Seed Company of Rochester, New York, 'Roma VF' has an interesting pedigree. It is a stabilized cross (open-pollinated) between the original 'Roma' variety and 'California Red Top VR 9'. Where 'Roma' had fusarium wilt resistance, the addition of the 'California Red Top VR 9' to the line gives this variety its verticillium resistance. There are approximately 20 seeds per packet. Each gram contains about 350 seeds, and each ounce contains about 10,000 seeds, and each pound contains about 160,000 seeds.
Fruit Color: Red
Special Groups: Market Growers
Special Groups: "Epic" Tomatoes
Harvest Timing: Main Crop / Mid-Season
Genetic Classification: Determinate and Semi-Determinate
Note: The original 'Roma' tomato variety was released in 1956 and was developed by William S. Porte at the USDA's Agricultural Research Center in Beltsville, Maryland. It was a cross between two popular Italian paste tomato varieties and 'Pan America'. It was the later variety, developed many years prior by Porte, that added the wilt resistant trait into this paste tomato.
Customer Reviews:
By Thomas (Port Crane NY) on January 6, 2023
Planted three seedlings of this variety. I was able to harvest almost 800 tomatoes from this which I froze till end of season and made 16 quarts of sauce! I literally gave up picking them and let about 200 more tomatoes sitting on the vine to rot. I used a horse manure and mushroom compost, and watered daily. Definitely recommend.
By Paula Beach on January 13, 2016
It was a bad year for tomatoes in my area. Many gardeners didn't get a harvest at all. I did and most of it was this tomato. It gave me firm, medium-sized, meaty tomatoes, just like it always does. Good ol' classic Roma. Tasty raw or cooked and easy to grow. The vines are not huge and didn't require pruning. A small cage or even a bean pole is sufficient, but it still puts out lots of fruit. At least mine did.
