Two type of Pepper on same plant?

[JosephineRose]

I have a lunchbox pepper I grew from seed. This is a single plant, but it is producing two different types of peppers: bell shaped and pointed (Italian style). I have never seen this before.



Could this be a chimera? How is this possible?

[Father'sDaughter]

Lunchbox is a hybrid variety. Did you start with commercial seed or saved seed?

[JosephineRose]

Originally Posted by Father'sDaughter

Lunchbox is a hybrid variety. Did you start with commercial seed or saved seed?

Commercial, from Johnny's.

[dmforcier]

You can get a pretty wide variation between pods - especially early pods - on a single plant, but I've never seen that much variation. It will be interesting to see what else shows up on those same branches.

[JosephineRose]

This photo is three weeks old. It's still happening. A small bell is developing next to the bell in the photo, and the branch above has two new pointed peppers. Loads of flowers coming in. This plant is crazy!

[Salsacharley]

Can you post a pic with all this phenomena? Most interesting

[JosephineRose]

Here is one the the two new pointed peppers coming in today above the bell in the earlier photo:



And here is the second little bell coming next to its sister. You can see the third pointed pepper in the shade in the truss above.

[Lasairfion]

I wonder if you could save seed and see if any of the child plants do the same. It'd be a great novelty for those 'Grow your own Peppers' boxes.