Guildo Pietroboni

Which leads me to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aZTxu4uj1bc

[Tormato]

The way I see it, a Citroen 2CV doesn't need a driver, or even need to be moving, to be hilarious. But that one was over the top.

[Scooty]

Originally Posted by Father'sDaughter

They had me at "these seeds came for a three pounde oxheart tomato but the tomato resembled a paste tomato. they were originally brought back from italy..."

If you find seeds and grow them, please put me at the top of the list for a couple of seeds!

I had to google the alternate name to find pictures, but I thought the same thing as well as far as first impressions. The lateral cut looked like a beef steak. The whole tomato looked like an oxheart. The radial cut down the middle made it look like a paste......

[TC_Manhattan]

Here's the post I found:

Guildo Pietroboni (Post #25)
Just got off the phone with Ferp.

He says that this tomato is approx. 3 lbs and a red Oxheart. An amazing tomato.

When he said that the tomato was like a paste tomato he didn't mean that it grew out differently from what was expected, he meant that it was very meaty and good for making sauce.
It originated with Guildo Petriboni who is deceased and Guildo brought it from Italy.

I'm growing this one next year for sure.

Neil G. (Canada)
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[ContainerTed]

Sometimes, I think I must be living right. Today's mail brought a weird surprise. Someone sent me 3 seeds of Gildo Pietroboni. Because the envelope and nothing inside had a name or address or even a handle anywhere, I really don't know who sent them. The postmark was Lubbock, Texas. I don't know anyone from Lubbock. I used to live in Clovis, NM. But that's quite a few miles away. I've never before received seeds anonymously. Thanks to whoever you are.

Pappy taught me to never look a gift horse in the mouth. So, the three seeds are installed in three cells with Jiffy mix. I'm hoping for at least one of these to germinate.

BTW, my records from an older database also confirms the name as "GILDO".

[Scooty]

Originally Posted by ContainerTed

Sometimes, I think I must be living right. Today's mail brought a weird surprise. Someone sent me 3 seeds of Gildo Pietroboni. Because the envelope and nothing inside had a name or address or even a handle anywhere, I really don't know who sent them. The postmark was Lubbock, Texas. I don't know anyone from Lubbock. I used to live in Clovis, NM. But that's quite a few miles away. I've never before received seeds anonymously. Thanks to whoever you are.

Pappy taught me to never look a gift horse in the mouth. So, the three seeds are installed in three cells with Jiffy mix. I'm hoping for at least one of these to germinate.

BTW, my records from an older database also confirms the name as "GILDO".

Talk about coincidence.....

[Tormato]

Originally Posted by ContainerTed

Sometimes, I think I must be living right. Today's mail brought a weird surprise. Someone sent me 3 seeds of Gildo Pietroboni. Because the envelope and nothing inside had a name or address or even a handle anywhere, I really don't know who sent them. The postmark was Lubbock, Texas. I don't know anyone from Lubbock. I used to live in Clovis, NM. But that's quite a few miles away. I've never before received seeds anonymously. Thanks to whoever you are.

Pappy taught me to never look a gift horse in the mouth. So, the three seeds are installed in three cells with Jiffy mix. I'm hoping for at least one of these to germinate.

BTW, my records from an older database also confirms the name as "GILDO".

Well, from Lubbock, if you take TX114W, then US380W for 174 miles, there's this area...

[ContainerTed]

Originally Posted by ContainerTed

Sometimes, I think I must be living right. Today's mail brought a weird surprise. Someone sent me 3 seeds of Gildo Pietroboni. Because the envelope and nothing inside had a name or address or even a handle anywhere, I really don't know who sent them. The postmark was Lubbock, Texas. I don't know anyone from Lubbock. I used to live in Clovis, NM. But that's quite a few miles away. I've never before received seeds anonymously. Thanks to whoever you are.

Pappy taught me to never look a gift horse in the mouth. So, the three seeds are installed in three cells with Jiffy mix. I'm hoping for at least one of these to germinate.

BTW, my records from an older database also confirms the name as "GILDO".

I finally saw a little Gildo Pietroboni hoop two days ago and now the little guy is up and among the living. It's the seedling on the right. In the center is my germination from some very old Brown Berry seeds, and on the left is the cell which contains one Dolly Parton seed which had shown germination in a plastic bag/paper towel setup after almost 3 weeks.

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