Judith in England wrote:

But if you really like a particular tomato say, and save some seeds from an F1
hybrid - surely the new plant will not be the true tomato which you like?
Which is the reason for growing open pollinated types; there's a project in
the U.S. (and Australia, IIRC) to produce dwarf tomato stock crossed with
some popular heirlooms. They've already got some stable breeding lines of
small but productive "heirloom" tomatos.
Look up "Tomatoville."

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