Maglia Rosa is excellent for containers and small spaces - Page 14

Shrinkrap · July 17, 2018

Well, these are my first ripe tomatoes, and I was barely holding out! I ate one, and I liked it! Has anyone tried them green?

Fred Hempel · July 17, 2018

Good point. I am into tangy flavors. Not everyone is.

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Originally Posted by Koala Doug

Try 'em!

I found that I prefer Maglia Rosa quite ripe (beyond what Fred recommends), but everybody is different... so experiment!

HudsonValley · July 29, 2018

I'm growing Maglia Rosa for the first time and loving it! I can't figure out whether it's D, Semi-D, or Ind., though. I've seen it labeled all three ways on the Interwebs... Which is it?

gorbelly · July 29, 2018

I think I'd call it indeterminate. It continues to produce until frost. But because it sets fruit so heavily for such a tiny plant, it tends to do it in waves. The squirrels this year ate all of my MRs when the plants were loaded with fruit and flowering had halted, but now the plant is as full of flowers again as it was in the spring.

Shrinkrap · July 29, 2018

I can't believe how they continue to set fruit in such heat. It's been 95 plus for about a month here, and we've had more days than I can count over 100.

Also in the picture are "Dwarf Sneaky Sauce" and Dwarf Rosella Purple. I am also growing Marzano Fire, but they are more prone to BER for me, and "short" Secret Sauce, but they have no color on them yet.

Fred Hempel · August 2, 2018

Looks good! My Maglia Rosa are just starting to ripen!

bjbebs · August 4, 2018

I have grown Maglia Rosa many times. It has always been a very manageable plant. This year it's reaching for the sky. The first picture shows it growing up a shrub, about 10 feet tall and still growing. It is in a 15 gallon pot and sees only water. As always it makes out a very tasty tomato with great production.

I am also growing Marzano Fire this year. It is an irregular shaped paste about 3 1/2 inches long. It is not juicy enough for fresh eating but have cooked with them. We split them and hollow out the seed cavity. This is stuffed with a hot pepper and sausage mix and grilled on slow coals. This is a somewhat thin skinned tomato with thick walls, perfect for grilling. This plant grows very much like Maglia has grown for me in the past. Pumps out the fruit and picking 6-8 tomatoes every other day. Second pic shows both
tomatoes.

Seed for Marzano Fire came from Fred, Maglia from saved seed.

Shrinkrap · August 4, 2018

Wow! 10 feet tall!!!!!

My MR is climbing okay, and Marzano Fire is pretty, but in my Earthboxes, I've had to toss half because of BER.

Labradors2 · August 5, 2018

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Originally Posted by bjbebs

I have grown Maglia Rosa many times. It has always been a very manageable plant. This year it's reaching for the sky. The first picture shows it growing up a shrub, about 10 feet tall and still growing. It is in a 15 gallon pot and sees only water. As always it makes out a very tasty tomato with great production.

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Seed for Marzano Fire came from Fred, Maglia from saved seed.

I wonder if your Maglia Rosa crossed with something else?

It doesn't usually grow 10' tall and your pictures of them don't look quite the right shape. Compare to pictures that others have posted in this thread.

Linda

Cole_Robbie · August 5, 2018

Yeah, MR was a great producer for me, but the plants are bushy determinates. I usually have bigger plants than what seed companies describe, but not MR.

Shrinkrap · August 5, 2018

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Originally Posted by Cole_Robbie

Yeah, MR was a great producer for me, but the plants are bushy determinates. I usually have bigger plants than what seed companies describe, but not MR.

Determinate? Do they stop making fruit after awhile?

Cole_Robbie · August 5, 2018

Mine did. Harvest window was about a month.

Salsacharley · August 5, 2018

I have 2 MR's in 2 different locations. One in a 5 gal pot and the other in the ground. They both have been continuously cranking out fruit at a high rate for my environs. They continue to flower and produce so in my case I would not consider MR a determinate. Both plants are quite small and wispy.

Shrinkrap · August 5, 2018

I also have two plants; one I almost tossed, but did a "Hail Mary" in to a 3 gallon pot (that's in post# 190), and the one I posted yesterday (post 203) that's sharing a Gardener's Supply self watering planter with "Secret Sauce "(short). They are both a bit bedraggled, and could use some treatment for leaf chewers, but otherwise doing better than expected.

Anybody with experience with "Secret Sauce"? They are making fruit but SOOO pale!

Koala Doug · August 5, 2018

My Maglia Rosa plants produced all season long. I can't remember if the branches ended in a flower blossom (self-pruning aka determinate) or was a vine with flower trusses along the sides (indeterminate), but the harvest was continuous. I grew it last year, but this year I tried Sunrise Bumblebee in its place.

And the Maglia Rosa fruits in the photo above look pretty normal to me (and I'm not commenting on the Marzano Fire in the same picture).

FYI - I got my seeds direct from Fred himself.

August 5, 2018	#209
Shrinkrap Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: N. California Posts: 701	I also have two plants; one I almost tossed, but did a "Hail Mary" in to a 3 gallon pot (that's in post# 190), and the one I posted yesterday (post 203) that's sharing a Gardener's Supply self watering planter with "Secret Sauce "(short). They are both a bit bedraggled, and could use some treatment for leaf chewers, but otherwise doing better than expected. Anybody with experience with "Secret Sauce"? They are making fruit but SOOO pale! Last edited by Shrinkrap; August 5, 2018 at 07:19 PM.

July 17, 2018	#196
Shrinkrap Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2006 Location: N. California Posts: 701	Well, these are my first ripe tomatoes, and I was barely holding out! I ate one, and I liked it! Has anyone tried them green?

July 29, 2018	#198
HudsonValley Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2016 Location: Hudson Valley, NY, Zone 6a Posts: 626	I'm growing Maglia Rosa for the first time and loving it! I can't figure out whether it's D, Semi-D, or Ind., though. I've seen it labeled all three ways on the Interwebs... Which is it?

July 29, 2018	#199
gorbelly Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jul 2015 Location: Southeastern Pennsylvania Posts: 1,069	I think I'd call it indeterminate. It continues to produce until frost. But because it sets fruit so heavily for such a tiny plant, it tends to do it in waves. The squirrels this year ate all of my MRs when the plants were loaded with fruit and flowering had halted, but now the plant is as full of flowers again as it was in the spring.

August 2, 2018	#201
Fred Hempel Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2010 Location: Sunol, CA Posts: 2,723	Looks good! My Maglia Rosa are just starting to ripen!

August 5, 2018	#205
Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	Yeah, MR was a great producer for me, but the plants are bushy determinates. I usually have bigger plants than what seed companies describe, but not MR.

August 5, 2018	#207
Cole_Robbie Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Jun 2012 Location: Illinois, zone 6 Posts: 8,407	Mine did. Harvest window was about a month.

August 5, 2018	#208
Salsacharley Tomatovillian™ Join Date: May 2013 Location: New Mexico Posts: 2,052	I have 2 MR's in 2 different locations. One in a 5 gal pot and the other in the ground. They both have been continuously cranking out fruit at a high rate for my environs. They continue to flower and produce so in my case I would not consider MR a determinate. Both plants are quite small and wispy.

August 5, 2018	#210
Koala Doug Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2017 Location: Detroit Posts: 688	My Maglia Rosa plants produced all season long. I can't remember if the branches ended in a flower blossom (self-pruning aka determinate) or was a vine with flower trusses along the sides (indeterminate), but the harvest was continuous. I grew it last year, but this year I tried Sunrise Bumblebee in its place. And the Maglia Rosa fruits in the photo above look pretty normal to me (and I'm not commenting on the Marzano Fire in the same picture). FYI - I got my seeds direct from Fred himself.