[feldon30]

I always have a hard time with these kinds of threads, because the idea of perfect flowers on a tomato is, every year, you get the same thing. The wish of many heirloom tomato growers is that we are growing the same variety from 100 years ago, not something that has mutated, wiggled its DNA, and changed to "adapt" to my garden. So the concept that there is really nothing we can do to preserve a variety exactly from year to year due to all these purported changes by mychorrizae, mutations, and whatever else, throws into question the whole idea of preservation and disturbs me deeply.