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At Harmony Springs Farm in Blountville, Tennessee, we run a commercial Capsicum chinense operation in a high-tunnel environment. This post covers our aphid protocol exactly as we run it, cross-referenced with university extension research and peer-reviewed entomology literature. Jennifer & Gene Chumley | Harmony Springs Farm Buy Fresh Pepper Boxes You did everything right! You germinated under a heat mat, kept the humidity dialed in, watched those first true leaves push up un

This post is part of our ongoing variety series covering the superhot peppers we grow here at Harmony Springs Farm in Blountville, Tennessee. Each entry covers lineage, heat profile, growing characteristics, and our firsthand experience in the high tunnel. Jennifer & Gene Chumley | Harmony Springs Farm Check out our full variety series → This image is not the actual CPR pepper | We will replace this image as soon as we get our first fresh pods Butch Taylor named this pepper t

This post is part of our ongoing variety series covering the superhot peppers we grow here at Harmony Springs Farm in Blountville, Tennessee. Each entry covers lineage, heat profile, growing characteristics, and our firsthand experience in the high tunnel. Check out our full variety series → Jennifer & Gene Chumley | Harmony Springs Farm There is no pepper more discussed, or more feared by first-timers than the Carolina Reaper. For ten years — from November 2013 to August 202

Jennifer & Gene Chumley | Harmony Springs Farm This post is part of our ongoing variety series covering the superhot peppers we grow here at Harmony Springs Farm in Blountville, Tennessee. Each entry covers lineage, heat profile, growing characteristics, and our firsthand experience in the high tunnel. Check out our full variety series → Fresh Superhot peppers for sale Fresh Primotalii | Primotalii Powder The Primotalii is a 7 Pot Primo × Fatalii cross associated with UK grow

Created by Italian breeder Rocco Maltesi around 2016, the Fried Chicken Pepper is a 7 Pot Bubblegum × Jay's Peach Ghost Scorpion cross that went viral for looking exactly like crispy fried chicken. Here's the full origin, heat profile, and what it grows like in a high-tunnel environment. This post is part of our ongoing variety series covering the superhot peppers we grow here at Harmony Springs Farm in Blountville, Tennessee. Each entry covers lineage, heat profile, growing

The Blue Ghost Peach shifts from purple to peach at ripeness, carries ghost-family heat to 850K SHU, and traces its lineage to Enrico Lai. Precision Grown. Engineer Verified.

Harmony Springs Farm | Precision Grown. Engineer Verified. If you've browsed our seed catalog in late summer and found a long list of "Out of Stock" listings, you weren't looking at a supply chain problem. You were looking at our quality control system in action. At Harmony Springs Farm, we purge all unsold seed inventory at the end of every season. Every packet is removed from stock. Carryover stock doesn't exist here. What gets listed for sale in the fall is what came off t

This post is part of our ongoing variety series covering the superhot peppers we grow here at Harmony Springs Farm in Blountville, Tennessee. Each entry covers lineage, heat profile, growing characteristics, and our firsthand experience in the high tunnel. Check out our full variety series Buy Superhot Fresh Pepper Boxes The Trinidad Scorpion Butch T is a piece of history wearing a stinger tail. From March 2011 to August 2013, it held the Guinness World Record as the hottest

By Gene Chumley — Harmony Springs Farm | May 8, 2026 Blountville, Tennessee | Precision Grown. Engineer Verified. Outdoor Garden Bed 1 is officially in the ground. On May 4 and May 5, 2026, we transplanted 32 pepper varieties — ranging from low-heat specialty types to extreme superhots pushing past 2,000,000 SHU — into native soil that we have been preparing since last fall. This post documents the full plant roster, bed layout, and soil preparation protocol exactly as plante

How Stage-Matched Nitrogen Delivery, Soil-Calibrated Potassium Control, and Venturi-Injected Micronutrients Drive Capsaicinoid Biosynthesis to Its Genetic Ceiling Fresh Superhot Peppers | Pepper Varieties | The Other Half of the Heat Equation Fertilizer cannot make a pepper hotter than its genetics allow. But the wrong fertilizer program will guarantee it never gets there. Our previous post, The Other Half of the Heat Equation, established the peer-reviewed foundation: te

This post is part of our ongoing variety series covering the superhot peppers we grow here at Harmony Springs Farm in Blountville, Tennessee. Each entry covers lineage, heat, growing characteristics, and our firsthand experience in the high tunnel. Check out our full series The 7 Pot Primo is one of the most recognizable peppers in the superhot world — blistered, oil-rich, stinger-tailed, and unmistakable on a cutting board. It helped define the modern era of extreme heat. It

112 Precision-Grown Pepper Plant Varieties — Kingsport, Tennessee Saturday April 25 (10 AM–5 PM) · Sunday April 26 (12 PM–5 PM) · Exchange Place Living History Farm, 4812 Orebank Rd, Kingsport TN 37664 Varieties we will have at the Spring Fair If you are looking for pepper plants in the Tri-Cities area this spring, one event delivers more variety than anywhere else in the region: the Exchange Place Spring Garden Fair in Kingsport, Tennessee. This year, Harmony Springs Farm is

This post is part of our ongoing variety series covering the superhot peppers we grow here at Harmony Springs Farm in Blountville, Tennessee. Each entry covers lineage, heat, growing characteristics, and our firsthand experience in the high tunnel. Browse the full variety series Where to Find our Plants? Some peppers earn their reputation through hype. Death by Chocolate earned it in the field, in the kitchen, and on the competition stage. This is the Harmony Springs original

This post is part of our ongoing variety series covering the superhot peppers we grow here at Harmony Springs Farm in Blountville, Tennessee. Each entry covers lineage, heat, growing characteristics, and our firsthand experience in the high tunnel. Check out our ongoing series Buy Fresh Superhot Peppers Shipped Nationwide Some peppers are engineered in a lab, stabilized across controlled generations, released with a press kit and a Guinness application. Jay's Peach Ghost Scor

This post is part of our ongoing variety series covering the superhot peppers we grow here at Harmony Springs Farm in Blountville, Tennessee. Each entry covers lineage, heat, growing characteristics, and our firsthand experience in the high tunnel. Check out our full series Where to Find our Plants Important note before we start: The California Reaper and the Carolina Reaper share a name, a rough heat range, and a pod shape. They are not the same pepper. They do not share th

By Gene & Jennifer Chumley | Harmony Springs Farm | Blountville, Tennessee Where to Find our Plants? Pepper varieties we planted Most pepper growers think transplant day is the hard part. Pull the plants, put them in the ground, water them in. Done. What they don't account for is everything that has to happen before the shovel hits the soil — and that's exactly where transplant shock is either prevented or guaranteed. Healthy seedlings start with viable seeds | Plan

This post is part of our ongoing variety series covering the superhot peppers we grow here at Harmony Springs Farm in Blountville, Tennessee. Each entry covers lineage, heat, growing characteristics, and our firsthand experience in the high tunnel. Pepper Varieties The Red Savina Habanero isn't just another habanero. It's the pepper that held the Guinness World Record as the hottest chili on Earth for twelve straight years. It's the pepper that forced the food world to reckon

This post is part of our ongoing variety series covering the superhot peppers we grow here at Harmony Springs Farm in Blountville, Tennessee. Each entry covers lineage, heat, growing characteristics, and our firsthand experience in the high tunnel. Follow our full series Order Fresh Peppers Online RB003 is one of those peppers that slipped into the superhot world without a marketing campaign, without a breeder announcement, and without a clean origin story — and that's exactl

This post is part of our ongoing variety series covering the superhot peppers we grow here at Harmony Springs Farm in Blountville, Tennessee. Each entry covers lineage, heat, growing characteristics, and our firsthand experience in the high tunnel. Our Full Series Buy Fresh Pepper Boxes SFRB and MFRB Some peppers are engineered with precision. Others arrive as accidents. The Tiberius Mauler is an accident that turned out to be a masterpiece — a rogue cross with triple-stacked

Evidence-based cold protection protocols for Capsicum chinense, verified with 24-hour sensor data from a commercial superhot pepper nursery. Prevent freezing plants By Gene Chumley, BSME, MS Engineering Management | Harmony Springs Farm, Blountville, TN | harmonypeppers.com Published: March 29, 2026 | Dataset: March 28–29, 2026 | Sensors: Govee H5051 × 2 Fresh Superhot Peppers The Problem With "Just Below Freezing" A forecast low of 30–33°F is the most deceptive scena