I doubt that you'll find many who have grown or for that matter much other info about it for the following reasons.

Adam Gleckler is the only commercial source for it, to start with.

Second, it was only first listed last year.

When Adam revived the company that his grandfather started in the 40's, followed by his father after that and stopped in 1994, Adam decided to get the business going again. There was a large group of us at another site who donated seeds to Adam and the working philophy was that he should concentrate on rare, hard to get varieties, and Mr. Bruno is one of them.

There are so many seed sites out there that having one where there are those hard to find varieties that one might see in someones grow list, etc. would be an advantage.

In that initial group of folks who donated seeds their were folks from several countries who did so as well as folks representing many areas of the US, Canada and elsewhere.

it's not even listed in the SSE YEarbook but the person who donated the seeds knew it well, obviously Adam loved it and for sure those who bought seeds loved it or it wouldn't be on that list of Top Sellers.

So give it a go, and there are many other interesting rare, hard to get varieties there as well.

Feedback has been excellent and there aren't too many places where the wife of the owner e-mails each person to say that the order has been received. ( smile)

Carolyn, who will just note that when she first started growing heirloom varieties in the early 80's there were only two good sources of such seeds being sold. One was Jan Blum, now gone, and the other was Glecklers. When she saw that Glecklers was back in business but with few varieties she kinda organized the seed donation events of the past two years and now Adam is getting sent many varieties to trial from others and I think that's great. he added about 80 new ones for 2011 whereas most sites add usually less than ten new ones each year, and believe you me that was a whole lot of work to grow them, process the seeds, take the pictures, write the blurbs and more. I applaud Adam his wife Ellie, his father who works with him from time to time for all the hard work they've done to make this reincarnation of his grandfathers original company a reality.

Here is a link that might be useful: Glecklerseedmen

Carolyn,

I appreciate your advice. I will add it to my list...that list that seems to never end.

Here's a cut and paste about Mr. Bruno originally posted here at GW. Ami

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Posted by drhuey 9/10Australia (My Page) on Fri, Feb 23, 07 at 21:48

This summer I'm growing a mix of 20 hybrid and Heirloom American tomatoes. It's been my most productive season to date (fourth year) thanks to the terrific advice and tips gleaned from this forum over the years. I have one 'ring-in' in the plot. This is the story.
In the winter I was given a few seeds of a tomato which is very popular among home gardeners in the Geelong district in Victoria. During WW11 an Italian prisoner of war was assigned to a farmer in the Geelong district to provide labor. He proved such a good worker that the farmer made contact with his 'employee' in Italy and sponsored his return to Australia as a migrant. He arrived in the early '50's and settled in the Geelong area. Like many European immigrants he brought with him vegetable seeds including some favorite family tomato seeds. By the late '50's he was keeping the seeds of his most productive tomato and continued to grow this variety until 3-4 years ago. For many years he helped the local hospital by selling tomato seedlings at the hospital's annual Spring Fair.Apparently the word spread among the local gardeners and 'Mr Bruno's tomatoes' were eagerly sought after. Mr Bruno is still alive and now resides in a Senior Citizen's home. He can no longer grow his tomatoes.I spoke with him recently and he is happy to have the distribution of the seeds widened.
His tomato has done brilliantly for me this season. It is a heavy producer of 7-8 oz slicing tomatoes (see photo).It is a ribbed tomato with a balanced flavor leaning perhaps towards sweet rather than acid.I've already picked 15 lbs from this one bush and it's still producing.
The bush ia a strong regular-leafed grower but not tall ( say 31/2- 4 feet) the shortest of all my bushes this year. It needs supporting.A feature has been the even size of the fruit.
I'm saving seeds and happy to share with anyone interested.
Brenton

Thanks Ami, I remember that now but didn't take the time to search.

Carolyn

I've grown this variety and it is good if you like overly sweet tomatoes that are on the bland side. Also this tomato is readily available on trading sites and I got seeds from a fellow grower in Canada. Glecklers site uses the term "Rare" just like Lisa does at Amishland Seeds for varieties that are readily available. Anytime I see "Rare" or "Hard to Get" in the description in a catalog, I assume it isn't worth my time!

I've grown this variety and it is good if you like overly sweet tomatoes that are on the bland side. Also this tomato is readily available on trading sites and I got seeds from a fellow grower in Canada. Glecklers site uses the term "Rare" just like Lisa does at Amishland Seeds for varieties that are readily available. Anytime I see "Rare" or "Hard to Get" in the description in a catalog, I assume it isn't worth my time!

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it may be readily available on the trading sites you frequent, and I have seen it on a few trade lists but that doesn't mean that everyone has access to it.

And how many other varieties does Adam Gleckler mention the word "rare" when describing a variety?

THere is absolutely no comparison between Lisa at Amishland and Adam at Gleckler's in any way, shape or form and being mentioned in the same sentence.

If you go to Tania's site you'll see there is currently one source for this variety, and that's Glecklers. When she has time to update all for 2011, which she hasn't, perhaps another source will appear.

I was going to make some specific comments about Lisa but decided not to so as to not turn this thread into something not related to the variety Mr. Bruno. Ever since Lisa was invited here to GW to defend herself, and we who were here at the time read what she said, there are many who know about her many deceptive practices which she admitted to.

BTW, did you read the thread here at GW on Amazon Chocolate? A Lisa problem you might want to take a look at.

And while you might find this variety too sweet for you and bland as well, apparently many others don't or it wouldn't be on the list of favorite varieties that Adam has at his site. Varieties would be on that list b'c of the number of folks who requested it, and not b'c he's trying to hype a specific variety, he's not one that does that. he is more than honest in everyting that he does and several of us know him very well and can attest to that.

Carolyn

Zebra, I was going to bump up that Amazon Chocolate thread which I thought was here, and quite recently, but in a quick check I don't see it so it probably was at a different message site where it was posted.

Perhaps just as good not to have found it here.

Carolyn

Here is the writeup on Mr. Bruno from Glecklers.

Mr. Bruno Summary

"Indeterminate, Early, Regular leaf. Compact plants produce loads of 8-12 oz fruit. great flavor. If you are cramped for room and want alot of tomatoes this is your variety. We picked 11 hampers all red ripe off of a 75' row the first picking. I give them an A++ for production. An Austrailian Heirloom named after Mr. Bruno of Austrailia."

I don't see the word "Rare" used anywhere! Go back in your hole "Z" man.

Thieneman's in Kentucky sells "Mr. Bruno". Funny thing is that they also list it as being on the sweet side.