This came to me from Spain (a market in Barcalona)and the dried pods were was said to be used to season Chorizo. Mine were sweet peppers with an nice flavor. I am not good at comparing to to other peppers.

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Hi,

Thanks for the info! Beautiful photo BTW. I think I'm going to like this pepper. I became intrigued with the pepper after getting into Spanish cuisine as well as charcuterie. The choricero is one of Spain's essential ingredients (particularly in the Basque region) as is the chorizo sausage. I bought the dried peppers to use in making a batch of Spanish style chorizo (as opposed to Mexican chorizo which is quite different). It's finally finished curing and I'll be sampling the finished product tomorrow!! If it turned out OK, paella, here I come LOL!

I'm really intrigued with all of the Spanish peppers which are relatively new to me. In addition to the choricero, I'm also growing piquillo, d'espelette, 2 paprika types, and padron peppers this year (have seedlings of all growing now) and am currently trying to sprout some peppers from some dried noras pods I have.

There are several other Spanish peppers I'd like to grow but it's really hard to find the seeds or dried pods. You wouldn't happen to know of any seed or dried pepper source in Spain that I might be able to access would you?

Anyway, thanks for your post. It seems like a very versitile pepper! I can't wait to try it fresh.

Anne

Pimiento de Arnoia-from Galacia-sweet

Pimiento de Gernika- Basque region-sweet frying pepper

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john

Hi John,

Great photos again! Sent you an e-mail this morning.

Anne

Hi,

I noticed this is an old thread, but I recently become really obsessed with growing peppers from Spain and am having a difficult time locating seeds. I was able to get some Padron and D'esplette seeds, but any other seeds seems to be impossible. Do you know where I can get some seeds for some of the other peppers? Thank you so much for your help.

You can try this outfit. However, I have never used them and I can't vouch for their reliability. I have seen their name come up before but I cannot remember the context.

http://www.reimerseeds.com/choricero-sweet-peppers.aspx
Bruce

I have never used them either, but, I can almost guarantee the context you've seen them in has not been good.

Thanks...I tried their site and noticed that their seeds have been out of stock for quite some time.