Well, one thing's for sure....it's not a Cayenne!

Couldn't say what it is, though. Possibly a hybrid.

Josh

Yah, I agree with Josh. No way it is a Cayenne. The pod variation might just normal variation. It could be that some of the pods were damaged in some way. Maybe a cold snap, physical damage or just plain malformations. I expect that once the growing season is fully underway and your plant is full of pods, the vast majority of the pods will take on one distinct size and shape with the occasional red headed stepchild mixed in.

Lots of times the plants at garden centers have their tags switched. Kids playing around or just being mischievous is a common occurrence. Sometimes in transit or while they are displayed for sale, the tags fall out of the plant and a worker just guesses which plant they came from.

I just picked some ripe sweet lunchbox peppers and a few of the earliest to ripen were blunt small peppers high were likely formed under some type of stress. My guess is most of the future pods will resemble the longer green pepper. The plant pictured could be a Fresno type, sweet snack pepper like my Lunchbox series, a jalopeno or most likely some cross of different varieties. The ribbing on the pods in the second picture is unusual.

For about 2 weeks prior to this post, I had been picking some of the peppers, maybe 5 or 6 of them. They were all the small orange blunt shape. They were hot peppers and did not have many seeds. I am waiting to see how the larger ones develop.

I agree that the garden center likely had the tags switched somehow. I could probably get a replacement but I didn't leave any space in my beds for more pepper plants. It's kind of fun to see what develops with this unknown plant.

Yah, seems like I get surprised by at least one plant every year.

It looks like photoshop to me. the pepper in the front looks different on pic A than on pic B .

I agree. You will find that the first pod or two or three on many pepper plants will be stunted or deformed looking. Not a different species, just deformed.

Lol, definitely not photoshopped. Here is a current pictures. I left the small pepper on for comparison, the newer peppers are all larger. Like some of you have said, the first peppers were stunted or deformed. I still don't know what type of pepper it is.

Yeah, that can happen.

One of my Habanero hybrid plant has been setting and ripening fruits no larger than half an inch so far, 20-25 of them, but the latest ones seem to be of standard shape and are growing faster. I guess production under stressful conditions will do that. I'm guessing it was cool nights and lots of rain for me­. The high average humidity allowed for pollination though.

I have same thing going in with this plant. Very strange.

Hi Andy & welcome to the forum!

This one looks more like a "cross" to me.. The reason is usually 1 or 2 are stunted (Unlike this pic where there are 5.) but I'd watch that pepper at the top right to see if it matures normal or stunted, that would be telling.

NECM

Thanks. The photo became a distorted when it uploaded (smooshed). The green peppers look like jalapenos in this pic but in real life they are typical Serranos. The round red peppers look like cherry tomatoes, lol.

Have the same thing going on supposed to be ghost peppers turns out looks like Carolina Reapers at first once the Reapers matured and you turned red these started growing Bhut Copenhagen Orange both very extremely hot same plant now they all look like this also put a picture of some of the crazy flowers that are on there any feedback or comments would be appreciated

I planted a sweet banana pepper plant and I have a large short/stubby green pepper and a short thin green pepper...the stubby one looks like a bell pepper more than a banana pepper...they are both on the same plant that I planted from seed...and they both taste different....hmmmm is it possible the company oopsed and cross bred it?

I am very confused on mine. I only bought 1 pepper plant but all of these are from the same plant. First one to grow was the bell pepper shaped then the short red ones, then the long skinny one. We had a lot of fun with taste that pepper and they had varying degrees of hotness. I got 5 red short ones and 2 were sweet, 1 sweet with bitter spicy hint but not hot, 1 didn’t get eaten and the last was hot. The long skinny ones were extremely hot. I wish I could find the tag. I was thinking they were a decorative pepper but can’t remember the name. Anyway, I was curious if anyone could shed light on this? It doesn’t make any sense to me. I have a couple buds growing now so I am interested in seeing what I get with them.

I have the same thing

Have taken 5 bigger red ones off already. This green one looks nothing like them??

This is happening to a plant I have. My mother says she grew the plant from seeds. The plant was supposed to be bell peppers. It produces 2 very different peppers. One looks like a banana pepper and the other is a small round green one. Does anyone know what this about?