Well, as I said, I was ‘in the biz’ for 18 years. Having grown just about everything under the sun, I tend to prefer hybridized varieties for disease resistance and production in my food garden.
I’m all about PRODUCTION, Baby! :)
I always ‘do the math’ and my tomato and pepper crops, grown from seed, will run me $5 each...for more tomatoes and peppers than I’ll know what to do with! (But I can them all or share them; Salsa, V-8 juice, Tomato Soup, Stewed Tomatoes, Pickled Peppers, Tomato Jam, etc.)
I usually grow 20-25 tomato plants and 20 pepper plants.
And, yes, you can save hybridized seed, but it’s a cr@p shoot on what you’ll get the next time you grow out that seed.
To each his own. We have some VERY ardent Seed Savers here! :)
I average 30-35 tomatoes off of each of my ‘Dora’ tomato plants every year...’Dora’ is an heirloom that bears tomatoes the size of a baseball or just a bit bigger. Production is just fine. :-)