Strange Chillies

[andymit]

Hi all well this is my first post.

I am searched far a wide for answer to this question without finding the answer. Maybe someone here will know.

Some of my chillies have started to look like a flower, it is almost like they have opened up the first skin to then produce a whole new chilli inside.

Any idea why this is?

I bought loads of different chillies from a local shop and took the seeds out and planted them in my green house this year, none of them looked like this chilli!!!

I have attached a picture

Hope all is well

Andrew

[taff]

It looks like several fused chilli flowers all prouced individual joined chillis

[andymit]

not sure really, but could be, it only has one stem, a very strange thing, also it has happened to some of chilli fruit but not all on the plant

[Two_Sheds]

Andy, it's beautiful. Make sure you enter it in our online show

[Leif]

I've seen sometimes a bell pepper can have a small pepper inside. I don't think it results from a seed inside that germinates, as they are not ripe until the pepper is ripe. See here:

Have you ever found a pepper inside a pepper? - CSMonitor.com

[andymit]

I will enter it is the online show, where can that be found?

I never thought about a pepper in a pepper, it was beautiful till I ate it lol.... tasted great, but there are more, a friend suggested that it might be from cross pollination because of being with loads of different types of peppers...so maybe a new mutant pepper?

who knows, i will save the seeds from the rest to see if I can recreate it next year. But I have searched far and wide on the net and seen anything like it. Also there are so many different colours, yellow, green, red, black...amazing really

I will take a picture of the whole plant for you to see

A

[veggiechicken]

It is beautiful andy! Here's a link to the Virtual Show http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/gra...2-a_67340.html - you can choose your own category.

[andymit]

thanks for the response, I will take more pics on the plant itself, oh dear late for work, gardening, and it's going to rain :-(

[andymit]

here is the plant

Well as promised here is the plant where you can see the chilli developing,

not as pretty as the one I ate.

So any more ideas?