No footprints or tracks in the soil around the plants?? Doesn't sound like deer. They'll decimate the plant foliage and sometimes the fruit. Raccoons? You'd see their prints. With their human hand-like front paws they can pick the fruit without disturbing the plant. Squirrels..if it's exceptionally dry,droughty weather they might take a few for the moisture. Such a massive taking requires an animal that can carry what they can't immediately eat. HUMANS Get a game trail camera and set it up to a post. If it disappears, it's a human stealing your tomatoes.

Barb, you know from looking at Tania's site, below, that I was the one who introduced GRS so know it well. The hearts it can give can be blunt or somewhat acute, but can be Ided as hearts, which I don't see in the pictures your show. I also don't think it's a mutation of GRS. Yes, a variety that is red can mutate to yellow, but it's due to what's called a somatic mutation, that is a mutation of DNA in a plant cell, not in the DNA of a seed, and such somatic mutations can lead to one branch having the different color, or shape or size, or even one fruit being different. Yellow Riesentraube resulted from ONE fruit on a plant of normal reds appearing. Marjorie Morris, who sent me GRS also sent me seeds for what she called Orange Strawberry which was a stray seed in a pack of the variety Pineapple. And I think what you have is a stray seed and could it be Dr Wyche, which I also know well. I have no idea since there are many many varieties that look like what you have. If it's astray seed then you should be able to ID it from what that seed seller grows, even though she says otherwise.Knowing many seed vendors, they don't always list for sale what they have and having done many seed offers myself, I'm not commercial, I know that stray seeds can, well, just appear. LOL But I'm quite confident it isn't a mutation of German Red Strawberry.Most seed sellers don't like it when stray seeds appear, why not, but for several years I did a wrong varieties thread here at GW, and they certainly do appear, more so from traded seeds but also from purchased seeds. Summary? Call it a mystery one and if you like it continue to grow it, but it will just have to be another orphan, as I see it. (smile) Carolyn Here is a link that might be useful: German Red Strawberry

Worlad, thanks . The one on the right , in your picture , is almost what I,ve got .I have heard that BFT comes in more than one strain. gorbelly , Some times a tomato has such a unique features than can be identified. Example, Ananas Noire. I got it identified. And this grape variety also has unique features. Searching all over internet I have not found anything like it ( Pecan shape, varigated skin , purple flesh, ). I don't want to give it a name right away. But if no match is found I will name it. That is how thousands and thousands of tomatoes got their names. Not a big deal. And other thing is that I am not advertising /promoting and selling seeds. Sey

Yes, birds are efficient distributors of seeds. An animal stomach does a nice job of fermenting them, which is necessary for growth. Yep, looks like cherry tomatoes. I have to assume that they are safe to eat. Well, be careful about Horse nettles, which are poisonous and cherry tomato-like in shape, though I don't think those fruits get bright red. They stay green or yellow. https://www.outdoorlife.com/photos/gallery/2014/09/11-toxic-wild-plants-look-food The fact that the seed passed through an animal is irrelevant to the safety of the fruit. Tomatoes are mainly annuals, as they are not freeze tolerant, but they were probably "planted" earlier this year. Do you have neighbors who grow cherry tomatoes?