>>1312437More likely, your original plant was a hybrid. Many of these plants aren't "true to seed" or make fruit that resembles the parent plant. They are the second generation of a plant that was specifically crossbred to create a hearty 1st generation plant, with no guarantees on the 2nd or further down the line.
I got a purple marble pepper plant from a fruit stand. I saved the seeds and sprouted them.
I got 6 plants to live past sprout stage. 3 were purple, 3 were green. Once the fruits came in, one of the green plants had died of aphid damage. Of the 5 that survived:
Two - one green, one purple, made small icicle-shaped peppers that turned black then red.
Two made "christmas lightbulb" shaped peppers that got fatter rather than longer as they grew, but with a distinct point
One, only one GREEN plant had fruit that resembled the mother plant.
That's what hybrids make. They have a varied genetic code that has certain traits that prove more or less dominant in the next generation.
