>>1339034Good luck with those. Someone evidently had purchased one of those raw vegetable platters that have cauliflower, baby carrots, celery, etc, and some type of perfectly spherical cherry tomatoes. I get compost from a lot of different people. This year the compost pile I planted the pumpkins on had tomato & vining zucchini volunteers. The typical yellow pear tomatoes popped up that I always grow, but so did at least one plant of those small round red cherry tomatoes. Their skin is thicker, tougher, and crunchier. They are less sweet and more sour tasting will fully ripe/paste ripe. I saved seeds from a small handful of them and will give at least 6 plants a try next season. I'll probably dehydrate them though. The dehydrated yellow pear tomatoes are like candy, so a more savory tomato may be a good ingredient for some of my dishes. I'm going to call them "red marble" for lack of an official name. If I'm lucky maybe they will be Riesentraube which is heirloom and has like 30-40 fruit per truss.
>>1339037Probably because the hybrid version is easier/cheaper to make/purchase. The process for making something stable and heirloom is a long and expensive one. It can literally take a life time.