Dolce di Minervino and Mareko Fana
 

We grow a few peppers at our farm, and the most interesting ones we have are not generally available. I'd like to share them with the first 20 pepper fanatics to request them. Please request by email, and when I receive 20 requests I will pack them all up and send them.

[URL="http://baianicchia.blogspot.com/2008/12/dolce-di-minervino.html"]Dolce di Minervino[/URL]

[URL="http://baianicchia.blogspot.com/2010/11/mareko-fana-berbere-pepper_09.html"]Mareko Fana[/URL]

To find our email, look at the profile on our blog (which is where the links are to)

You have e-mail, thanks!

Damon

a second email in the box
Emanuele

Email sent. Thanks for sharing. Dust

e-mail sent. Thanks for sharing the peppers.

Mark

Current Total = 8

email sent (I hope to meet the mark)

Dolce di Minervino Mareko Fana
 

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I will send my address to your PM.
Thanks for your generous and kind offer of your seed.
VGary[/SIZE][/B]

I want to be in the 20 . Sending PM

As usual, Gary and Terry are ahead of me; but count me in.

count me in if you still have some... sending you email

thanks
garyvs

Fred:
Emailed you yesterday. Hope I made it in the 20.
Thanks
Chris

Hi, E-mail sent. Maybe Im not too late. Thanks.

I have been getting emails and PMs

Total = 12

When I get to 20 I will confirm with everyone.

I would love to get some. I'm a pepper lover.

Thanks
Linda

I'd like some too - thanks for the offer!

E-mail sent...and a beautiful site, too.
Thanks!

I have over 20 takers. That is it for the pepper offer. I will try to get the peppers out to everyone later this week.

I hope everyone likes them, but what I am interested in in return are comments to this thread on the peppers. Please let everyone know how you grew them, when you harvested, how you cooked them. Anything that might be of interest.

Fred, Do either of these peppers require an extremely long
Growing season as compared to Jalapenos or maybe even
Habaneros.

They are not as slow as Habenero or Jalapenos, but with our long growing season, I am not focused on how long they take to produce.

Additionally, the immature peppers are excellent "frying peppers" that can substitute for Padron or Friggitello. Some of the restaurants who used to buy Padron from us now use Mareko Fana. Of course the harvest of frying peppers starts much earlier.

I am now starting to catch on to the SASE thing, and I would like to request that everyone who requested the peppers send a SASE to

Baia Nicchia Farm and Nursery
P.O. Box 428
Sunol, CA 94586

Make sure you include a note telling me that you want the peppers.

One other note: The pepper we are distributing is not the same as the Mareko Fana offered by Reimer seeds.

Indeed, the population of Mareko Fana we grew was also not uniform genetically, and the variety available at Reimer seeds looks like a variant that was within the seed we obtained. While we are making a standard long, brown Mareko Fana available, we are also in the process of selecting a number of additional true-breeding lines that capture much of the diversity of the seed we obtained from Ethiopia. We may make these lines available too, at some point. The first thing we will do, however, is make them available to Ethiopian agronomists and farmers for evaluation there.

Fred

recieved the seeds today....thanks so much. I look forward to growing these.
gary

Fred,

Thanks for the seeds! I received them today. I can't wait to grow them and experience the taste.

Mark

Your Pepper Seed
 

[CENTER][I][SIZE=4]Fred, [/SIZE][/I]
[I][SIZE=4] Many thanks for the gift of pepper seed which arrived in the afternoon mail. [/SIZE][/I]
[I][SIZE=4] I certainly look forward to growing them.[/SIZE][/I]
[I][SIZE=4] All the best to you and [B]Bain Nicchia Farm & Nursery[/B]![/SIZE][/I]
[I][SIZE=4] Gary[/SIZE][/I][/CENTER]

Fred, got mine yesterday and I am very anxious to try them. Many good wishes to you for the upcoming year.
Thanks much!
Chris

Fred, my seed arrived today in good condition.
Thanks.

Fred I got my seed too, thanks!

Damon

Got mine today, too! Thank you very much.

Hi Fred,

Received seeds today. Perfect timing, I've been starting peppers this weekend.

Thank you again, and will post pics as things progress.

Buck

Got the seeds. Thank you, can't wait to try them!!

Wendy