OK, found it. Had to flip threw my notes and make sure I ordered from him. I did indeed. First year with his seeds, I got both with tail and without tail. The without looked like the ones asked about here. Selected seeds for tail and funky look. This year got all tails an a few with two tails. Really cool shapes. All twisted and bumpy. OK, so looking up what my original vendor said about the tail & it was in fact Jim Duffy.
"It grows into many contorted shapes some having tails. Will also look like an extremely twisted bumpy Ghost chile." -
http://www.superhotchiles.com/peachghostgallery.html
That was back when the thing was in its fifth generation and seeds were already being sold. So my guess is that it still threw the pods with no tails back then and seed folk got ahold of it. A lot of them like me have a preference for the scary looking pods so they selected for that look. But something weird happened with this one. Lots of people dropped the word scorpion from the name and just called it Jays Peach Ghost. So I am guessing they selected for the non-tail look.
Like Mr. Duffy, Pepper Joe also says
some have tails, but shows all with tails -
https://pepperjoe.com/products/jays-peach-ghost-scorpion
Hippy Seed is probably the best example. Partly because the pepper in the back of the picture is relatively smooth, no tail, and a lot like what the pictures in this post look like. That and they are also a great example because people are chomping at the bit to say yuck to both Mr. Duffy and Pepper Joe for some reason but I have never heard a bad thing about Hippie Seed. BTW: I have never had a problem with either of these seed folk but I LOVE Hippie Seed, -
https://thehippyseedcompany.com/product/jays-peach-ghost-scorpion/
On the color, again I do not remember if the other shape does the color change right before rotting. A few peaches do.
