Vine Ripe Tomatos ??????

Can anyone tell me what species of tomato actually grows on a vine, I see the ads saying "vine ripe tomatos" yet all the tomatos I've seen on farms and those I grow,reds,beef steak,yellow,,all grow on a tomato bush not a vine. I do a one acre garden every year and I have never been able to find any tomato plants or seeds that actually have the tomato growing on a "vine"........

Vine Ripe Tomatos ??????
"Vine ripe tomatoes" means the tomatoes have been picked red off the tomato plant.





Most tomatoes sold are picked green and gassed with ethylene to make them turn red. They're more easily stored and transported this way, as they're firmer but they're relatively tasteless and contain very little lycopene, that "red" cancer-fighting agent.





"Vine ripened tomatoes" sounds better than "bush ripened tomatoes". Most tomato plants, if you don't cage or stake them, will actually crawl along the ground like a vine.
Reply:Hi!! the stem that the fruit actually grows on is called a vine because it is a stem that grows from the main part of the plant and the fruits grow on these extentions, therefore they are indeed vines.


Now the supermarkets sell the fruits on the whole truss,and call them tomatos on the vine, that allows them to keep fresher.