Please correct me if I'm wrong: I agree with others that your peppers were crossed. Which means the "cross pollination" took place before you received the peppers from whoever gave them to you. That person probably grew the chili and banana nearby to each other and their pollen got crossed. The cross pollination does not affect the fruit of the same year (the fruit you received last year). However, seeds in those fruit will not grow into fruit identical to the fruit it was in. I think whatever went wrong didn't happen under your supervision. Starting peeper from seeds of unknown origin is always adventurous. You never know what you might be getting. Buying seeds is one of the more guaranteed ways of getting pepper seeds.

No need to apologize. Things can be confusing when merchants supply information that isn't accurate. Fuchsias are shrubby and they live from year to year. However, plant merchants sometimes refer to fast-growing plants that bloom on new wood as "annuals" because people in climates too cold to overwinter them can treat them as such. They freeze to death and that's the end of that. I would also suspect that your Fuchsia is probably relatively short, to be used in annual bedding. Now, this is confusing too: Fuchsias are naturally upright, but some have been bred to have weak stems so that they cascade out of a basket. The type that would work best for a basket would be referred to as a "trailing" Fuchsia. Yours might work fine but don't be surprised if it doesn't cascade down the sides of the basket. Palo Alto is very mild and with irrigation your "annual" Fuchsia will live from year to year indefinitely. Now, as for what to do with it; what little frost you ever have, you probably don't even get every year, and when you do get it, it's probably not enough to kill a Fuchsia even exposed in a hanging basket. If you are in a hard frost area (for example, in a cold air drainage pocket, or at some elevation), you could still overwinter it by just planting it in the ground and mulching it a bit. Don't be surprised if it looks a little tired in the winter. It is fine, and will perk up quickly in mild weather. Fuchsias respond quickly to fertilizer, being especially fond of liquid types, and will usually reward you with a flush of growth and blooms. They bloom on new wood. You can clip to train them. If they get senescent (the wood starts looking like it is dying of old age), you can start them from cuttings and start over again. Fuchsias are extremely easy to root from cuttings--as easy as old-fashioned Coleus were. Fuchsias like mild weather. Not too hot, not too cold. They like bright open shade. They can stand a few hours of sun as long as it's not too hot (morning sun better than afternoon in that regard). Dry heat is very hard on them--possibly fatal. In dry weather you will probably have to irrigate your basket daily. If you like Fuchsias, keep your eyes open for Fuchsias that your friends have that you like--they can probably be talked into a cutting. Also consider contacting a local Fuchsia society--they will have hundreds of varieties, probably with bigger flowers, in more variety of colors, than Lowes. Mine are all uprights that I plant in the ground. Easier to take care of than in a hanging basket, which in my climate, that is colder than yours, I would have to protect for the winter, not to mention water it daily in the summer. I grow them along the north side of a fence, open to the sky but shaded from direct sun. They sit on a bank, and so their flowers are close to eye level. It is a very popular feature for my neighbors to look at. Some of mine are wild species--not hybrids. They have some variety of form--for instance one of them in habitat would clamber up a tree almost like a climber. Another one has dainy fern-like foliage and tiny but brilliantly colored flowers, and one has berries that are considered tolerably palatable (usually Fuchsia berries are bland). Another one gets big as Fuchsias go--it can hit about 7 feet tall (and perhaps even wider) or so before its weak wood bends under its own weight. You can grow some I can't--like the beautiful Triphylla types, such as the popular "Gartenmeister Bonstedt". Much too tender for me.

Thanks for your responses. I prefer to turn off the cable and computer at night, but DH would rather the modem be left on. In the past I had a problem with "China" and "Russia" attacking/trying to get into my computer on a daily basis as well as some other places. I was able to search the IP addresses and found where they were located. Now that I have Norton and have two IP addresses to get through I do not seem to have a problem. I was afraid if the modem and/or computer was left on that someone could hijack and use my computer. Someone did hijack and use my Yahoo Email address. They sent emails to many people as well as to my husband and my regular email addresses. I do not use my real email address or name when signing up on sites. I never used my husband's or my regular email addresses on the Yahoo Email. Changing the password corrected that. The Yahoo incident made me think someone had invaded my computer rather than just hijacking my Yahoo Email only.

Others can correct me if I am wrong but I thought when looking at those that the ones that could also be top mounted had a wider lip all around the sink. No problem if you have a large sink base, but it takes more room in an undermount situation and you may not be able to fit quite as large a sink in the same base with those. Sue