Much ado about nothing. Tomatoes are very easy to grow as long as you treat the roots right. That means alot of area for the roots. My rule of thumb is available soil volume equal to the the volume of the plant above ground. If you cannot do that you have to carefully regulate soil moisture and nutrients, which is why growing in containers, either right side up or upside down is very difficult. Having your little [upside down] grow bag hanging in the air where sun hits it heats it up, and dries it out, is probably the worst way to try to grow a water hog like a tomato plant.
You can pick tomatoes any time after color develops and flavor and texture will fully develop off of the vine. Grocery store tomatoes start out as hard tasteless varieties, and then are picked green and gassed to turn them red and soften them. It is actually pretty difficult for a home gardener to make a tomato taste like storebought.
Also, Gardener's Delight is a cherry tomato, not a large variety.
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