The first two peppers I had off the plant looked like this. The rest of my peppers look like regular cayenne. I think the plants can just mess up the genetic coding sometimes, especially considering in your case they’re not the highest quality seeds. Maybe they were the wrong seeds maybe they were for different varieties and they cross breeded
Sorry if none of these help, just let them grow and ripen in any case as a good learning experience
Bowhunter2525
Cool! It’s not uncommon to get the occasional pepper or tomato with growths like that from a deformed blossom but I’ve never seen an entire plant do that. I suspect there is a mutation affecting the blossom structure. You can get somatic mutations that affect one blossom, one branch or the whole plant. It may or may not get passed on in the seeds.
The_Doom_Doctor
Lmao,I get so creeped out by stuff like this for no reason.
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I’m not sure what the variety is, since I picked a seed from a random grocery store pepper.
I recently had a cayenne that looked like this
https://preview.redd.it/8f1chbkl1oad1.jpeg?width=3000&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=02abf3e1cfdcf5ebb87a75065246c779bde0f3f6
The first two peppers I had off the plant looked like this. The rest of my peppers look like regular cayenne. I think the plants can just mess up the genetic coding sometimes, especially considering in your case they’re not the highest quality seeds. Maybe they were the wrong seeds maybe they were for different varieties and they cross breeded
Sorry if none of these help, just let them grow and ripen in any case as a good learning experience
Cool! It’s not uncommon to get the occasional pepper or tomato with growths like that from a deformed blossom but I’ve never seen an entire plant do that. I suspect there is a mutation affecting the blossom structure. You can get somatic mutations that affect one blossom, one branch or the whole plant. It may or may not get passed on in the seeds.
Lmao,I get so creeped out by stuff like this for no reason.