Martino's Roma
Open-pollinated tomato
- Breeding
- Open-pollinated
- Growth habit
- Determinate
- Days to maturity
- 75-80 days 2 sources, none independent · basis unstated
- Fruit
- red, plum
- Weight
- -
- Bred by
- -
Grey captions say what stands behind that particular figure. Breeding, growth habit and fruit characters carry no caption because they rest on the record's sources as a whole rather than citing their own; closing that gap is ordinary outstanding work, not a finished job.
Origin & history
An Italian open-pollinated paste variety with rugose foliage and pear-shaped fruit that hold heavy crops close to compact plants, a market-grower favorite for hand-harvest efficiency.
Measurements
| Measurement | Value | Context |
|---|---|---|
| Days to maturity | 75-80 days | Consensus range across the cited sources, which include both independent references and commercial catalogs. |
Against the rest of the tomato database
Where this variety sits among every tomato we hold a comparable figure for. Position is not merit: earlier is not better than later, and hotter is not better than milder. Only cultivar-level figures are compared, never trial results, and maturity is only ranked against figures counted the same way.
later than 55% of the 258 tomatoes we hold a figure for. None of these figures state whether they are counted from sowing or from transplant, so they are ranked against each other on the assumption that suppliers use one convention, which is not something any of them says.
Traits
Disease resistance
No documented disease resistance, typical of heirlooms and older open-pollinated varieties. See tomato diseases for the cultural playbook that fills the gap.
Related varieties
- open-pollinated
Roma VF
73-80 days · Determinate
- open-pollinated
Bellstar
68-75 days · Determinate
- heirloom
Grandma Mary's Paste
70-80 days · Indeterminate
- F1 hybrid
Health Kick
70-75 days · Determinate
- open-pollinated
Heinz 1350
75-78 days · Determinate
- F1 hybrid
Plum Regal
68-75 days · Determinate
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Sources & References
Evidence: 2 sources, 1 seed catalog and 1 community collection. No independent reference documents this yet.
- Johnny's Selected Seeds catalog · Johnny's Selected Seeds, Seed Catalog
- Seed Savers Exchange catalog & variety histories · Seed Savers Exchange, Community Collection