Without seeing a picture it is a little difficult to tell. There are purple Bird's Eye peppers. I have never had a pepper plant that did not have white flowers. Do they transition from green to purple, or do they turn red before purple?

Skip Pallesen: Yeah but how many bird's eye's have you seen with fuzzy stems, leaves, and flower buds? Also, it's been a few days since posting now, and the peppers are starting to get bigger and they're looking less and less birds eye like and more like a shishito. They're still pointing straight up though. The peppers still aren't ripe, so they're definitely not red before purple. And the purple parts are only on the peppers that are exposed to strong sunlight because some peppers are entirely green. I'll try to get a close up pic of one of the developing peppers tonight.

Finally, there are several C. pubsescens cultivars that have striking purple flowers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capsicum_pubescens

As a general rule, if your pepper plant is fuzzy, it's a pubescens, but nothing else about the growth makes it looks like one. And pubescens aren't known to hybridize well with the other common species, so I have would highly doubt I have a weird cross.

Shishito grow to about 5 inches and hang down. Shishito also go from green to red.It could be a cross that produces the purple color, but a cross with what I do not know. We will know more when you see how hot they are.

Hi James Yu this plant looks just like a Pequin pepper plant to me. I had a couple Pequin plants growing wild in my backyard for many years. Birds like to eat them and then drop the seeds randomly around. They are considered wild peppers. And yes, the stems are fuzzy. I have photos of my plant in this post if you'd like to compare the look of the pepper and the leaves. They can get really tall, I think one of mine was like a 7ft bush. If you have more photos as they ripen please share. https://www.cayennediane.com/peppers/pequin-pepper/

Although many of the wild peppers themselves look very similar, flower position, corolla color, calyx teeth, seed color, and pubescence (fine short hairs on the leaves and stems of plants) may differ from species to species.

If you want really get into wild peppers, I've done that! : P https://www.cayennediane.com/pepper-species/

Cayenne Diane This might be the first suggestion that I've found (on several online forums!) that might actually fit the bill! The peppers are still immature on my plant, so it's hard to say if the developing fruits look exactly like Pequin peppers or not, but the pubescence is spot on. Some of the immature fruits could certainly pass for a bird's eye (they're thin and long), but others definitely look like some pictures I'm seeing online. I will certainly update with more pics as they ripen.

Cayenne Diane

So it's been about a month since my initial post and my peppers have finally started to ripen (I added some new pictures!). They ripen into a vibrant red pepper that is noticeably hotter than a jalapeno. I think your guess of pequin is right on the money!

Thanks again!

Those babies are HOT too! Once dried, I would coarsely grind them into Chile flakes using my spice grinder.

Skip Pallesen Black perl has purple flowers