Roma Tomato

For those complaining about blossom end rot, this is VERY common with the Roma. It usually hits just the first fruit set, but you may find a couple more up the vine. However, it is such a huge producer, it more than makes up for the few that get BER. Roma is a gold standard paste tomato along with San Marzano, and my fave, the Opalka. Roma is easy to grow and produces tons of fruit. Keep in mind it's a heavy feeder.

Plants grew nicely and produced in new soil. Many tomatoes, but every single one has blossom end rot. I fed it calcium to no avail. I'm very sad. If anyone can direct me on how to prevent this I will remove this post. Even though I have been gardening (tomatoes esp) for years, it might be my problem...

First year buying seeds from Baker creek. Almost all the Roma tomatoes are getting Blossom End rot..Bought Kellogg's breakfast tomato as well from them and they are doing wonderful. Very disappointing this variety, will probably pull the plants and replace with something else. Same thing with peppers, Red pepper variety plants are doing wonderful but the yellow California wonder are very slow and remained small.

I planted these early on in the season and even had to transplant them due to space problems. 6 plants about 12 inches / 30 cm apart. This year I was so caught up with other things that I took very little to no care of these plants and they produced like PROS. Started very early I saw small flowers forming within a month. There were so many tomatoes it was hard to handle. The color was great, the skin was thin but they had very few seeds on the inside and were mostly flesh. GREAT for sundrying and my girlfriend and I made fried tomato sauce with them that as kept well for months so far. Just the other day I made a homemade pizza using the sauce and rocket and it was one of the best Iv'e ever done. Given the fact that I never really cared for the plant it makes me wonder how well they will do If I had. I will plant again next year and will try harder. 10/10!!

So, my previous seed start review highlights a couple characteristics to consider with this Roma. I erroneously attributed the lighter green foliage of seedlings to "weakness" In fact, it's just their color. They are lighter green than other varieties. At some point after the 2nd set of true leaves, these outperformed the varieties in 1 qt containers. They exhibited vigorous growth until about 6-8" tall then stalled. I started feeding all with weekly 24-8-12 and quickly discovered that these Romas benefit more than the other varieties from fertilizer. So, they are heavy feeders and have light foliage. Atlanta had a very wet season. We are at surplus 10" precipitation at the end of July... They just started to flower this week over 120 days post sow. But I'm certain it's due to me constantly sheltering them from thunderstorms. In any case, I decided to keep them in containers and they are currently beautiful, healthy plants.