This really is a complex issue at heart.
On one hand, you don't want to confuse even a slightly changed tomato with it's parent's name, as you want to preserve the original characteristics. But it really becomes confusing if you create a brand new name for each and every tomato that is, say, five percent different on one characteristic, like weight, earliness, or color.
You could just continually choose tomatoes that are a bit outside the expected characteristics and present it as a "new" variety, couldn't you?
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