Robert Miles > wrote:

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>I've read that most tomates are now a type bred to turn red before they are ripe.
> To avoid this, you may need to grow your own tomatoes, and if any variety is tasteless,
> don't plant that variety the next year.

Nope. I've had sweet 100's that weren't sweet because it never got
hot enough, or was too wet, or the soil was tired. Then the next
year, from the same packet of seed, they were as Sweet as they should
be.

Same with my Polish Linguisa tomatoes-- the Beefmasters, and even
Rutgers.

>The older varieties are more likely to still have taste.

My neighbor grew heirlooms for a couple years. Out of the 4-5
varieties he planted each year a couple were OK. I was never
tempted to try them, and he's gone back to disease resistant 'new'
varieties.

Jim