You are definitely growing peppers. :) Impossible to know which at this point.

Rodney

It is difficult to tell by leaf and size but after enough experience it gets easier. if I were to guess I would say its maybe in the Hab family. Let us know how it turns out

Omg these pictures make me so sad!! They are so green and healthy!!! Now they are curling, yellowing, and falling apart and I don't know why

Ok they have finally arrived!! I am back again :) here are your flowers!! And the peppers! These plants came from a little red pepper but they are green.. Just plz tell me I'm not just growing regular chilis lol The person thought it was a "Vietnamese pepper" when they gave it to me (I promptly gutted it and dried out the seeds

Read this in another forum. Might not help you with the cultivar but will help you identify the species.

Well, it doesn't appear to be a real common pepper like Cayenne or Jalapeno. The pods are growing upright which several peppers have as a characteristic. I am not familiar with the Vietnamese Tear Jerker, but I suppose that is a possibility. When you had the pods last year, were they long and cylindrical, round, or what? These look like they are going to be longer and skinnier. After checking some photos on line, I am going to say that you have a very good chance of having a Vietnamese Tear Jerker plant there. So far, it looks like you have the right characteristics.

Good luck and post a couple photos later on.

i have a similar, unnamed variety as jes lynn's. i had assumed it was a thai pepper, based on its upright appearance, but none of the online pictures of thai peppers that i came across quite matched what i had—the thai varieties were either stouter or longer than my little firecrackers.

a vietnamese coworker gave me the parent plant, and he didn't know the origin of the plant, either. i should have honed my search on vietnamese peppers, instead of believing they were thai all these years. even so, a search of vietnamese tear jerkers showed peppers that seem longer than what i was growing.

but the pictures that jes lynn put up are the closest match i've come across. who would've thunk that my vietnamese coworker would have gifted me a—gasp—vietnamese chili plant.

these peppers go from dark green to a relatively brief muddy-orange stage, then a bright fiery red when ripe. and despite being small, they pack a punch. a pod will typically carry 10 to 20+ seeds.

if anybody knows what kind of peppers these are, i'm all ears. . . i mean, eyes. pikchurz from last summer:

I can't help with a positive ID as I was in a similar situation back in 2015. Look at the below plant.

It's not dissimilar to yours and the "muddy-orange to fiery red" ripening is pretty much what they did. I always figured it was some sort of Thai pepper. After all, there are so many look-alike upright-pod C.annuum out there, kinda hard to nail it!

noss-lookin' peppers, isgen.

i'm beginning to accept that there are mystery peppers in this universe :)

Mystery varieties- several of the peppers and tomatoes I grow are from seeds brought back from other countries by family or myself, so I can't say what they actually are, even though I have some idea in a few cases.

follow-up on my vietnamese peppers, which might be tear jerker peppers:

last year i learned to propagate peppers, and i went from having one plant to many. i finally have enough peppers for myself and for friends and neighbors.

my first plant was damaged due to heat (my coworker left it in his hot car during the summer, and the top parts died off), and produced no more than 50 peppers per year. a second-generation VJT plant grew from a pepper that had fallen into the soil, and that gave me 73 peppers last year.

the second-gen plant wasn't topped, as i didn't know of that practice at that time. armed with basic knowledge, i topped all my third-gen plants, and this year, they're on track to produce more than 100 peppers each (150 to 180 each in the case of the most prolific plants).

conclusion: topping is the pepperhead way.