 all attached together what makes these so great besides growing in hot houses so they control the environment they're still pulling nutrients from the stem so the greener that stem is and the redder those tomatoes are the better it's going to taste don't buy them green anyway and don't buy them with the brown stem forget about it now what you want to do when you buy your tomatoes like that oh one more thing make sure they have that wonderful aroma simply bring them home and store them on the counter and that's what you want to do you do not want to store