Name: POMODORO SQUISITO
Availability: InStock
Rating: 3.97 (31 reviews)

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POMODORO SQUISITO

80-85 days. A true fingertip-kissing sauce tomato! This San Marzano hybrid produces heaps of luscious fruit for all your sauce, ketchup and soup needs. Vigorous, indeterminate plants set heavy clusters of 6-8, elongated deep red fruit with thick meat, a minimal seed cavity and well-developed flavor. We especially love Pomodoro Squisito’s resistance to blossom-end rot for a San Marzano type. HR: F 0-1, ToMV, V. IR: TYLCV.

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SEED

20 seeds $4.95 100 seeds $8.55 250 seeds $16.45 500 seeds $28.75 1,000 seeds $47.35

TRANSPLANT

Ships first half of April $5.45 Out of Stock Ships last half of April $5.45 Out of Stock Ships first half of May $5.45 Out of Stock Ships last half of May $5.45 Out of Stock

$4.95

Key Features:

Amazing production

These were high producing and beautiful tomatoes. We gave so many away and canned three shopping baskets mounded full. We had maybe 6/7 plants. Blossom end rot like I saw in another review is about managing your soil. We only had issues when the plant was still producing into the freezing temps. They just keep going and going with the same standard size tomatoes. Firm and easy to slice.

Great prolific paste tomato -BER problem

End rot was significant mid-way through fruiting but could cut it off and use rest of the tomato. Drenched roots 2 times with a large slurry of lime, after reading up on the internet, then watered well, two weeks apart and BER gradually disappeared for last fall harvesting. Also, kept green ones on my counter and continued to ripen into November.

I want to give this tomato ten stars!!

I have grown these tomatoes for the last three years and will keep growing them for as long as Territorial has them on offer. I live in zone 7b Snohomish, WA and have never had one bit of blossom end rot even when they were next to Marzinera which got horrible blossom end rot. Huge eight foot tall plants that I grow up twine with tomato clips. The production is crazy with up to eight huge ROMA type fruit hanging in one cluster - I wish I could include a picture! The fruit are very big with some of mine reaching easily 4 inches. I have just four plants this year because the production is so incredible! You need this tomato!! This is the only Roma style tomato I grow now.

Not BER resistant for me

Plants were healthy, lots of tomatoes on the vines, but lots of blossom end rot. I had it on my heirlooms and Oregon Star, too, so must not have amended with enough calcium. I will try again next year with more lime and bone meal. The few I did get without BER were meaty and easy to process, so I hope next year I'll have better results!

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More Information

Soil Temp for Germ	70-90°F
Seed Depth	1/4"
Days to Emergence	6-14
Soil Temp for Transp	55°F
Plant Spacing	See below
Row Spacing	3-4'
Fertilizer Needs	High
Minimum Germination	80%
Seeds per Gram	≈ 280-320
Seed Life	3 years

Lycopersicon lycopersicum The first ripe, juicy tomato of summer is a delicious milestone of the season for gardeners. Each year we test and evaluate more than 250 tomato varieties to bring you the most flavorful, best performing selections, for every desired use. An array of nutrients and antioxidants including the especially potent lycopene, found in its highest concentration in tomatoes, supports healthy eyesight, cardiovascular health, cancer-fighting capacity, and more.

Days to maturity are calculated from date of transplant.

Culture
• Determinate tomatoes: grow compactly, sprawling laterally, usually do not require staking, and fruit ripens over a short period of time
• Indeterminate tomatoes: grow on long vines, generally require pruning to 1 or 2 leaders that need to be trellised
• Fertile, well-drained raised beds covered with plastic mulch promote early growth and better yields
• Tomatoes are high feeders and will benefit from regular fertilization with Age Old Bloom
• To prevent blossom end rot use a high calcium amendment
• Overwatering can cause fruit to crack

Direct Sowing
• Not recommended

Transplanting
• Sow seeds in trays 6-8 weeks before anticipated transplant date; up-pot into 3-4 inch pots when the first set of true leaves appears
• Strong light and cooler temperatures (60-70°F) prevent plants from getting leggy
• Fertilize with Age Old Grow every 10-14 days
• When transplanting work in compost, 1/2 cup of TSC's Complete fertilizer, and handful of bone meal
• Determinates can be spaced 18-24 inches apart, indeterminates 24-36 inches apart
• Tomatoes can be buried up to the top 2 sets of leaves
• Use Kozy-Coats or Victorian Bell Cloches to protect young plants

Insects & Diseases
• Common insects: Flea beetles and tomato hornworms
• Insect control: Pyrethrin or row cover for flea beetles, and Monterey B.t. for tomato hornworms
• Common diseases: Early and late blight
• Disease prevention: A strict 3-4 year rotation, remove vines at the end of the year, fungicide

Harvest & Storage
• Harvest when fully ripe, do not refrigerate for best flavor
• Green fruit should be ripened in a cool, dark area; make sure fruit are not touching

KEY TO TOMATO DISEASE RESISTANCE AND TOLERANCE
• HR indicates high resistance.
• IR indicates intermediate resistance.
• Aal | Alternaria Stem Canker
• AB | Early (Alternaria) Blight
• B | Bacterial Wilt
• F* | Fusarium Wilt
• FOR | Fusarium Crown and Root Rot
• L | Gray Leaf Spot
• LB* | Late Blight
• LM* | Leaf Mold
• N | Roundworm | Nematode
• PL | Corky Root Rot
• PST | Bacterial Speck
• RK | Root-Knot
• TMV | Tobacco Mosaic Virus
• ToANV* | Tomato Apex Necrotic Virus
• ToMV* | Tomato Mosaic Virus
• TSWV | Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
• TYLCV | Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus
• V* | Verticillium Wilt
* Numbers and letters indicate specific disease race.

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