Zenzei Hybrid Roma Tomato
Growing Zenzei Hybrid Roma Tomato
‘Zenzei’ is an award-winning hybrid Roma tomato and 2023 All-America Selections Winner prized for early maturity, uniform fruits, and strong garden performance. Robust plum tomatoes weigh about 3 to 8 ounces and offer excellent interior quality with fewer issues from spots and blossom-end rot.
Start ‘Zenzei’ indoors for transplanting. Plant seeds about ¼ inch deep, space plants 24 to 36 inches apart, and grow in full sun. Compact, orderly plants are well suited to smaller gardens, heat tolerant, and noted for disease resistance.
Ready to harvest in about 75 days, pick fruits once they reach full size and mature color.
Meaty, dependable, and versatile, ‘Zenzei’ is excellent for sauces, salsa, roasting, canning, freezing, fresh eating, and everyday cooking.
- Days to Maturity: 70–75 Days
- Sow Method: Start Indoors
- Sowing Depth: ¼ Inch
- Plant Spacing: 24–36 Inches
- Sun Exposure: Full Sun
- Plant Height: 5–7 Feet
- Fruit Size: 6–8 Ounces
- Fruit Color: Red
- Fruit Type: Roma / Paste
- Growth Habit: Indeterminate
- Special Features: High Yielding, Heat Tolerant, Disease Resistant, Excellent Uniformity, Crack Resistant
- Hardiness Zones: Zones 4–9
- Best Uses: Sauces, Canning, Salsas, Roasting, Fresh Eating
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Resistance To:
- Verticillium Wilt
- Fusarium Wilt (Races 1 & 2)
- Tobacco Mosaic Virus
- Tomato Yellow Leaf Curl Virus
- Tomato Spotted Wilt Virus
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Start Indoors
¼ Inch
5–7 Feet
Solanum lycopersicum