I'm growing "Santa" tomato plants on my balcony in large pots. Why are some grape tomatoes yellow and orange? What make them change colors? He said grape tomatoes were a cross between a grape and a tomato, so I looked it up. I thought that our professor was the ignorant one and it turned out, he was. Your store-bought grape tomatoes simply may not breed "true." You might get a little bit of a different tomato but it will likely be similar. All tomatoes are hybrids of one form or another. They may have actually grown one of the parent tomatoes. That could be why some of the posters here report growing larger grapes with the second generation. You just may not get a tomato exactly like the one you ate. This is something that is repeated over and over and is untrue. It is false that seeds from a hybrid cannot be used to grow a grape tomato. The tomatoes are a little larger but she says the flavor is great. I just took a couple more cuttings and moved down again to keep it going. We just rolled it into the sun room for a second winter and it is fuller than ever. I took cuttings from some of the stems and set them in the dirt, and some seeds from the dropped tomatoes came up also. This past spring, I rolled it out on the deck again but it was looking a little spindly. They still had some blooms last fall so we pulled it into the sun room. The spring of 2010 my wife and I planted three grape tomato starts in a large pot on wheels on the deck so she could grab a few without having to go all the way to the garden for the munchies. The first generation will come out almost identical to the store bought ones. I suggest just buying some tomatoes and planting them each year. I have grown grape tomato seeds from Walmart every year and they grow fine and make small, sweet and very tasty grape tomatoes. What are Some Different Kinds of Tomatoes?.What are the Different Types of Tomato Plants?.What are the Different Tomato Varieties?.
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