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
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.
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.
compared to my last effort at getting a bean picture to look half decent (in terms of color and details) this one i do like a lot more:
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more detail:
i had to do some recalibration of my monitor anyways plus i tried out some new programs and learned a bit more on how to use them. probably still a long ways to go but i consider any progress as welcome as i've not really liked how the pictures were turning out before.
the image i used for generating both of these pictures was the same raw image from the camera taken when i was first trying to figure out this new camera.
Nassieddu Marrone - Pole Dry. From Valpiano, Italy. This bean did not produce so well in 2025. I will probably regrow all the low producing beans in a different location sometime. Although not this year.
Nassieddu Pansaredda - Pole Dry. From Valpiano, Italy. This bean did fairly well although I would like to seed it do better than it did in 2025.
Nasieddu Marrone - Pole Dry.........................Nasieddu Pansaredda - Pole Dry
Nasieddu Rosso - Pole Dry. From Valpiano, Italy. I have no deep history of these Italian beans that come from a grower in Italy. This beans production this past year was below average but a little above the poorer performing beans. Nasieddu Viola- Pole Dry. From Valpiano, Italy. I have no deep history of these Italian beans that come from a grower in Italy. This beans production this past year was below average but a little above the poorer performing beans.
Nasieddu Rosso - Pole Dry....................................Nasieddu Viola
I've always really liked all the 'Nasieddu' beans on your website @Blue-Jay , they're all such nice looking beans. I've always been a bit afraid of growing them though; Italian beans have given me a few close calls so far. Most of them have matured in good time, but a few were really cutting it close. I never know when an Italian bean is going to fall in that dicey category, so I've started to kind of feel a bit leery of them. I enjoy them from afar for now, Lol.
