Some very expensive tomato seeds

Only £525 per pkt +2.99 P&P

Seeds of Italy - TOMATO SAN MARZANO FOLLIA F1 50g PACK

 

It look like the commercial seeds pack , I`m from that part of Italy and basicly every year there is a sort of contract between grower and factory , each factory will require so many tonnes of tomatos and every grower will prebook 3/4 tonne of the total ammount.
The factory will tell what kind of tomato will require from the grower and they will only require F1 tomoto , so that the farmer will no be available to produce seeds , usually is the tomato factory that supply seeds to farmers.
50gr of seeds usually are around 2000 seeds .

 

I thought 50g would be more like 20,000, not 2,000 standard sized seeds as 1g of the large seeds I've saved from beefsteak tomatoes contains approx. 300 seeds (I was weighing them yesterday), and that's also the amount per gramme given by several tomato seed suppliers.

If there were only 2,000 seeds in a £525 pkt it would be far, far cheaper to buy 34 of their standard pkts containing 60 of these seeds for £2.49 each and get 2,040 seeds for only £82.17.

 

what about 6 seeds for £4.50 http://www.medwynsofanglesey.co.uk/...toes/giant-tomato-p-g-selection/prod_194.html

 

Guys I can`t really remember 2000 or 20000 , I was a kid at the time , my grandad done for 2/3 years , but he didn`t make much money out of it , the factory was only buy the right quantity and at the price they where given to you.....he actually realised that growing tabacco was more profictable.....in summer it looked like i was living in a forest .
If you want to try some of the best Italian tomato from that region , try to get pomodorino corbarino , it`s one of the most prized over there for the taste and should performe really well over here as grow in the hillside of Italy..........plus it`s a species and not an F1 . remember that with tomato F1 you will not produce seeds of the original tomato.
there`s a new species over there that is really priced but really can`t rember the name , but the taste was something incredible .