Gigante Farina Italian Heirloom Tomato Review & Photos

An excellent large-fruited variety from Italy! These red tomatoes with a deep, rich flavor are the result of the hard work of Rimo Farina from Bleggio (Italy).

Large, beautiful fruits, heavily ribbed at the stem, with aromatic, delicious flesh. Some of my tomatoes reached 2 lbs (900 g), and even a bit more. They have a very dense texture and don’t crack at all. It’s an indet, mid-season. I grew it in the greenhouse where it reached over 6.5 ft (2.0 m). I pruned it to 2 stems and didn’t bother thinning the blossoms.

My first fruit was 1.3 lbs (600 g), another was 2.4 lbs (1,096 g), and a few others were around 1.9 lbs (860 g). It threw absolutely no small fruits. Seeds were from Natalia Dryzhakova.

The pictures are my very last fruits harvested in September.

I’ll chime in on this tomato too! Mine grew next to a wall in partial shade, but that didn’t stop it from pumping out total giants. I pruned it to two stems and also didn’t thin the trusses.

Delicious, it checks all the boxes, but I ruthlessly chopped up the absolute biggest one for canning. My friend still hasn’t forgiven me for not hosting a ceremonial fresh-eating party for that specific tomato 😂

I grew Gigante Farina in 2022. All the fruits were huge, ribbed, a saturated deep red, and just pure solid tomato meat. I absolutely loved this variety.

I grew it outdoors, just using a film cover during April-May. Later I covered it with shade netting. The plant had three main trusses, plus some smaller ones later on. I had to heavily tie up the very first truss so it wouldn’t snap right off – that single cluster weighed 10.5 lbs (4.8 kg) in total!

To be fair, the absolute biggest tomato at 2.6 lbs (1.2 kg) wasn’t the prettiest shape, but several of the 2 lbs (900 g) ones were gorgeous: nicely ribbed at the base and very firm. I definitely want to repeat it this year and see how it turns out.

@Gavrik wrote:
An excellent large-fruited variety from Italy! These red tomatoes with a deep, rich flavor are the result of the hard work of Rimo Farina from Bleggio (Italy)…

I’ll add a little more info about this variety (thanks Gavrik!).

The seeds were originally sourced directly from a friend in Italy. It’s a gorgeous large-fruited variety! Massive red tomatoes with a very deep flavor profile. Fun fact: Farina is also an Italian town located in the province of Frosinone.

The fruits are heavily ribbed at the shoulders, which is a key trait for this line. All of them are huge, many weighing in at 1.7 – 2 lbs (800–900 g). I didn’t see a single fruit with any defects, green shoulders, or hard white pith inside, despite their massive size.

The plants are tall, reaching 6 – 6.5 ft (1.8–2 m) in the greenhouse. When pruning to 1 or 2 stems, you absolutely must provide extra support for both the main stems and the fruit trusses…

Meaty, meaty, delicious! True tomato flavor, with almost no acidity.

It actually lost about 1.7 oz (50 g) in weight sitting on my counter for a week 😂

I barely got 20 seeds out of this massive thing. All the tomatoes were over 1.3 lbs (600 g), absolutely no small ones. Grown in a greenhouse.

Seeds were from @Tacha, thank you SO much. This was my first ever 1-kilo (2.2 lbs) tomato!