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[Blue-Jay]

Russ's 2025 Big Bean Show Day 39​

Musanze Cranberry - Pole Dry. This is part of the 35 pound stash of beans from Joseph Simcox that I picked up at Karen Goldens's house in Highland, Michigan a couple of years ago. I picked this one out of the freezer last spring labeled as Musanti Rwanda. That's what Simcox's writting looked like to me on the his original label. I feel like I've written about this before but anyway. I Googled Musanti by itself and got references to things Italian. Then I googled Musanti Rwanda and Google corrected me by bringing up the city Musanze, Rwanda. There is also a market in Musanze and this might just be where the bean came from. The bean was very productive in 2025.

Nasieddu Giallo - Pole Dry. From a grower in Valpiano, Italy. This bean production was not that great but maybe in a different season it would perform better. Giallo in Italian is yellow. It does have a yellow figure around the eye.


Musanze Cranberry - Pole Dry.............................Nasieddu Giallo - Pole Dry

 

[Blue-Jay]

It definitely darkened. Yes, I found that on Guy Dirix's website last night.

Would you like to change the name to what you found on Guy Dirix's website? Turkey 1 was rather generic wasn't it. I didn't much like the number in the name really. It does seem that Turkey was so generic that it probably wasn't right. This fellow who I got it from in Kentucky if he had actually gotten it from someone directly from Turkey. I kind of doubt that the person in Turkey would have sent it to him with the name Turkey 1. Let us change the name.

 

[heirloomgal]

Would you like to change the name to what you found on Guy Dirix's website? Turkey 1 was rather generic wasn't it. I didn't much like the number in the name really. It does seem that Turkey was so generic that it probably wasn't right. This fellow who I got it from in Kentucky if he had actually gotten it from someone directly from Turkey. I kind of doubt that the person in Turkey would have sent it to him with the name Turkey 1. Let us change the name.

I think 'Sari Taneli Sera' has a nice ring to it!