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Old July 12, 2012   #1
Steve Magruder
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Default Mislabeled Roma tomato plant?

Here's some tomatoes I harvested from my supposedly Roma tomato plant. They look nothing like last year's Roma (those looked like this year's San Marzano I'm growing). Attached is a pic of a sample harvest from this plant. What variety is this? Or is the plant just having a problem?
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I dont grow Romas so I cant say but I can tell you I get a variation in shape on many tomatoes. Also, there are quite a few different Roma type tomatoes but they are just sold as Roma. Seed source and type could differ from year to year.
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Thanks Linda for your input.

The Roma I grew last year produced fruits pretty much around the same size, and were the long plum-like fruit similar to San Marzano.

On this plant, it looks like most of the fruit that's growing is small like these and not going to get bigger.
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If you want your Romas to look and probably taste a certain way, you should look into starting your own seeds. The only other way is to purchase directly from the plant grower who could perhaps name the type of Roma seed used.
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