Really cool! With the difficulty in getting Aleppo, Urfa's have apparently become a lot more popular in cuisine. This year I was given pepper seeds from a woman who brought them with her from Hamadan in Iran and she considers it her home pepper. As it grows, it looks a lot like Urfa, but I'm not sure whether they're the same or just similar. The plants are compact, produce pretty heavily and quickly, and ripen at a pretty average rate (mine all got a late start and are in small containers). Nice burgundy red color as they ripen, but I haven't tasted one yet. I expect I will turn some into pepper flakes in the traditional way they do with the Urfa in Turkey, or at least as similarly as i can.
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I will likely grow Urfa the next summer season and see how the two compare and also how they compare with aleppo. Hope you give it a go!