Anyone growing the Sart Roloise tomato?

Apparently it’s the “tomato of the year” for a local garden center. Obviously that is a limited endorsement but still - it’s something for them to have selected it.

Anyone know about this or tried it? I couldn’t find it on growingfruit via some searches so am starting this thread.

It seems to be in stock with pretty good (but some mixed) reviews:

https://www.rareseeds.com/tomato-sart-roloise

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I grew them, sadly I lost almost all of them because I left the starts out during a hot day :frowning: But one…. grew basically as high as my house which isn’t very tall but still xD VERY….BIG…. plant. As far as I can remember the taste wasn’t much to write about but they were pretty good still, I know I have some pictures of the progress around here somewhere, I’ll try to remember to post them soon.

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Thanks for the report. So it doesn’t seem like a “must grow” type of thing based on at least your report. I guess that’s kind of like the reviews on RareSeeds. Some loved it and some said “meh”.

It does sound huge! Looking forward to the pics once you get a chance.

The sart rouloise is in the back with the darker leaves, the GIANT bush in the front are the sungold cherry tomatoes xD Those ones were… not bad, honestly had more taste than the sart ones. The sart roulloise were probably about 8+ feet tall here, had to put long sticks in the ground just to try to keep them up, I think the plant ultimately collapsed lol.

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Grew it the last two years. I remember it being more tart than sweet, I wasn’t planning to grow it again this year. They are very attractive looking though.

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All these high antioxidant purple ones I tried are very pretty but don’t taste good to me or hard to ripen evenly.

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Thanks @ThisIsThatGuy, @DaveW-wi5b and @armyofda12mnkeys !!

Based on this, I’m going to give it a pass.

I have so so so many other great varieties that folks here have recommended multiple times that I’m trying or planning on trying.

Appreciate the feedback!!

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I heard cherokee purple are the ones to get, going to be trying to grow some of those this year.

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