A Heart-Shaped Bella Rosa? Need Input

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A Heart-Shaped Bella Rosa? Need Input

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Post: # 74086Unread post GoDawgs
Sun Jul 17, 2022 6:43 am

Bumping this up, hoping to get some input.

Pickles came in yesterday morning and said she thinks there's a heart-shaped tomato on the Bella Rose. Hmmm, this I gotta see. We've been growing Bella for about five years and all the tomatoes have been round. These are the normal Bella Rosa tomatoes:

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This is the one that seems heart-shaped:

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I put an onion bag around the tomato to save it from the squirrels so that it can fully ripen on the vine.

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This tomato plant is one of the 15 tomato plants up at the house, all different varieties but no hearts. The hearts are all down in the garden a good way away. So my question is, even though Bella is F1, should I save the seed of this particular tomato anyway and grow it off next year to see if it repeats the heart shape?

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Mon Jul 18, 2022 2:42 pm

Send me a few seeds from that one fruit. I always have a spot, or two, to waste on a determinate. :roll:

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Mon Jul 18, 2022 2:47 pm

Will do if the squirrels don't figure out how to remove it from the bag! Wily little bastiges.....

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Mon Jul 18, 2022 9:27 pm

I have some heart shaped tomatoes on a Park's Whopper F1 Hybrid. This has happened previously for this variety of tomato. I think it occasionally happens with hybrids. For me it usually happens after the first wave of tomatoes have set.
I also have a few heart shaped tomatoes on a Cherokee Purple.

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