Adding to the confusion is the "cold tolerant" tomato that just happens to be one that hung on barely alive long enough to get into warmer weather and then set a huge crop of fruit. Wheatley's Frost Resistant fits this category. It is not frost resistant, but it will hang on until warm weather arrives and then set a huge flush of flowers and fruit.
I agree that late season cold tolerance is a slightly different animal, but IME, tomatoes with significant overall stress tolerance tend to have better than average performance late in the fall. Eva Purple Ball falls into this category.
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