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First pods looking different?

cruzzfish

cruzzfish

A yellow brain strain is ripening, but turned an orange color. The weird thing is that the pod doesn't look like a brain strain, and it is the first pod that the plant produced. Also, if anyone could help with a brown patterning on the edges of the leaves of most of the plants, that would be nice.
 
Pods not *fully* ripened yet. These where the ones I told peppergrower about about a few days ago. They are kind of rounded, pinching in on both sides with a point in the middle. The only reason I know they aren't red brainstrain though is because they don't have any red on them. I'll be able to post a picture in a few minutes to tomorrow, it's a bit late here and I can't find a camera connector/phone is acting a bit funny.
 
It's not uncommon for the first pods a plant produces to be different in form, but I've never personally seen much color variation on the same plant. I can tell you though, that is is very common for many yellow chinenses to continue ripening until they appear orange as they soften a little. This is true of my Yellow Brain Strains, Fataliis, and Scotch Bonnets. Non-chinenses such as Lemon Drops however, typically maintain a bright yellow color even when mushy.
 
I should rephrase this. The plant in general produces orange. I was just verifying if it was an new kind of orange brain strain rather than an underripe red one or a mislabled 7 pod giant(It looks like the first giant that I grew a bit also) It could be that Jim Duffy mislabled the starter plants he sold me, though the sunrise scorp scotch bonnet and 7 pod are definitely the right ones. Also, the pod hasn't been ripening for longer than four days, usually takes a bit longer than that to go soft. See you guys tomorrow.
 
Over or really ripe yellows often go orange.  Fairly common. I had yellow 7 pots this season that had orange, yellow, and green all on one pod. Some yellows do it, some dont.  But yes, pics would help.
 
Finally got the pictures.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95306525@N02/10583212594/in/photostream/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/95306525@N02/10583422143/in/photostream/
two separate angles of it. here is a picture of a red one and a yellow one
http://hellhotpeppers.com/wp-content/themes/shopperpress/thumbs/brain-strain.jpg
http://i1219.photobucket.com/albums/dd428/najamm/peppers2012/P1030071.jpg
Red and yellow ones belong to their respective photographers, as I don't have a red or yellow plant.
The pictures I took are a bit dark, its actually a shade darker than your average habanero. For reference, the coin in the picture is a gold dollar.
Hope it turns out to be something different.
Edit: has been ripening for a total of six days, and is still crisp feeling, so its not turning orange out of overripeness. It is also much to uniform for that, and doesn't smell like the other yellow pods I had in the past (Perfumes pepper and a yellow moruga scorpion, but not homegrown)
 
Hmm that seems like a genetic mutation man, it can happen from time to time even with established pepper species. And the other pods are coming out yellow brains?
 
No other pods as of yet. Plant is indoors, and should be producing again in midwinter, but will have to wait till April-June to find out what the rest are like. I must say though, that it tasted like a yellow one with a hint of red and it hurt much worse than it should have. Never reacted like that to one before, at least as bad as a red one. Tasted sweet though.
 
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