Out of the four varieties of cherry tomato I grew, 3 types can sit there ripe for days and not get soft but the Yellow Pear cherry gets soft within a couple of days of being ripe. Four of the Chadwick, a large red cherry, have been sitting there ripe for a week now and they also have fairly thick skins.
Storage ability is something I never thought of in relation to tomatoes.
This summer I tried a variety called ‘Chocolate Cherry’ and have been wholly impressed. In spite of utter neglect (here we pretty much use cherry tomatoes for eating out of hand while we’re working outdoors, so I don’t put forth any effort to maintain them) they have flourished.
There are hundreds of golf ball sized toms on each of the three plants and the fruit is absolutely delicious. It reminds me of a miniature Purple Cherokee, except they are remarkably resistant to splitting after a rainfall.
I like them well enough that I’m going to save back some seed and see if I can skip the ‘buy-it-again’ exercise next spring.