They were the best tomatoes I had ever tasted and were expensive at $21.42 per kilo.
I bought a small punnet of them.
They were much larger than a 50 cent piece - not small cherry tomatoes.
The flavor was strong and delightful and the skins were thin
and they were not watery like so many tomatoes I've tried before.
I thought - why not grow some of my own from the seeds?
I saved 5 seeds and a friend of mine grew them for me a year or so later.
Guess what? -
they must have been hybrid tomatoes as they didn't breed true.
They must have been cross pollinated with another variety.
What came out were tiny cherry tomatoes with
thick skins that didn't taste very good.
Only what's known as heirloom tomatoes will give
exactly the same tomatoes from their seeds.
Oh well - I should have known the growers would
protect their special high cost tomatoes from copy cats - LOL
