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:



This is the one that seems heart-shaped:



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



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?

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

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

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.