This Roma Grande is very productive. I found little on the internet about it, but one person had it in a trial of 17 paste tomatoes and it out-bore the others by far--31.1 pounds per plant. I think I am on track for getting 17 pounds per plant, and I've given them no fertilizer, no attention to bugs (which they do have!), too little space and probably a tad less water than they'd prefer. I did not even prepare good planting holes, or apply compost.

I'd like to save seed. Am I wrong to assume this is not a hybrid, as it does not say so on the package? It also makes no claims to disease resistance, unfortunately.

The taste is not my favorite, but for sauces it is suitable enough.

If you've grown Roma Grande or know anything about it, please tell me.

A US reviewer, Sarah, on the Franchi seed site calls Rio Grande semi-determinate and someone in another community says it kept yielding cluster after cluster right till frost.

Roma Grande in a Pennsylvania trial last year was the #1 paste tomatoes for production and #5 for flavor. The grower in charge of the trial mentions the package was available as Burpee seeds in Lowes but not in the online catalog. I bet that is the study you reference since the 31.1 pound/plant yield is there, except it was 24 plants, not 17 as you mentioned.

Also, The package of tomatoes was part (1/5 packs of seeds) of the now discontinued Burpee Bamboo salsa kit.

Cook's Garden seeds according to an Uncle Wayne else called Roma Grande an OP indeterminate. I bet if you contacted Franchi, Cook's or Colorado you would get your answers as to your cultivar, and it wouldn't surprise me if someting dumb happened, like Burpee not identifying the paste tomato in its kit with the real name, so it wouldn't be seen as an endorsement as being a favorite LOL Maybe they just buy a little from someone like Franchi and rebrand it under the table, since people in many big marketing departments tend to be more concerned with ... marketing.

That is disappointing if Burpee is renaming varieties. It is frustrating enough with nursery grown plants mislabeled or renamed, or of course, not named at all. I had thought that growing from seed, I might have more certainty.

At least the packet told the truth where it said "high yielding."

I think I'll be saving these seeds.