Is this flower already pollinated?

I’m doing cross pollination on capsicum annuum plants by the standard procedure of emasculating a flower on what I want to be the female parent, then sprinkling it with pollen from the male parent.

However, every time I emasculate a flower, no matter how small and underdeveloped it is, there’s a green bulb at the base of the style, which appears to be an enlarged ovary. This makes me believe the flowers are self pollinating before opening, but even when I look at extremely underdeveloped buds, the enlarged ovary is still present. Are the flowers just pollinating themselves super early in their development? Has anyone seen this happen with their peppers before?

I’m really hoping someone tells me that the green bulb is not actually an enlarged ovary, so as not to add a huge complication to my research. If it is, and the plants are self pollinating before I’m able to get to them, does anyone have any suggestions on how to successfully cross-pollinate them as the female parent?

It would be easy enough to use these as the male parent, but ideally I would like to perform these crosses in both directions