Where did you get your seeds/plants? Those pods don't look like either you mentioned.

Kevin

Burpee...planted from seed.

Don't know. Maybe an odd seed got mixed in.

Can you take a close up pic of just the pods?

Kevin

How are the temperatures there? If it gets too hot (or too cold, but that seems unlikely) the pod growth may slow. In that case, I wouldn't worry too much about it.

But I completely agree that the pods are obviously not cayenne (long, thin, almost strongly pods) or Anaheims (shorter, stubbier, pointy at the end). Burpee does sell some round peppers. I don't remember for sure, but I think they are all sweet peppers. This looks more like one of those peppers maybe.

Angie

Thanks for your help. I guess I'll just have to wait and see what happens. What is a little odd is that i planted 3 different varieties, cayenne, anaheim, and bell but all of my pepper plants have produced those small clusters that look identical. I did notice that one of the clusters has turned almost black in color (same small size) but similar to the color of an eggplant.

And i forgot to mention, i tasted one of the small clusters and it was HOT! so definitely not a sweet pepper. No clue what is going on in that garden!

Those leaves look very large and the fruits are stunted. Make sure the plants are channelizing the energy correctly to produce peppers, not foliage. See the video guide link.

Here is a link that might be useful: Growing peppers in your garden

My neighbor seems to think they are just all weeds, is that possible? That would be a big disappointment but perhaps explains why they look nothing like the peppers I planted. Could weeds grown fruit clusters like that? The stems of these plants have that black streak just like pepper plants. Thanks for your help!

Steve

Looking at the fruits, my 1st thot was solanum -- ie, weeds.
Strange that you'd get the same thing from 3 different seed packages.

Did you start them indoors or direct sow?