Notes
Self-wrapping white. Fall money crop.
Cultivars / Brassicas
Skywalker
Cauliflower · Brassica oleracea var. botrytis
DTM
75 d
82 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
2
18 in in-row
Density
1.33
plants / bed-ft
Yield
1.1
heads / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$4.21
$4.50 / head
Propagation
- Method
- Transplant
- Cell size
- 128s
- Nursery lead
- 32 d
- Germination
- 6 d
- Germ temp
- 45°F – 80°F (opt 68°F)
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 2
- In-row
- 18 in
- Seed spacing
- 2 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 1.33
- Plants / 50 ft
- 67
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 75 d
- Holding
- 7 d
- Occupancy
- 82 d
- Multicut
- no
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.2
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- head
- Units / bed-ft
- 1.1
- Avg unit wt
- 1.2 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 1.3 lb
- Cull rate
- 15%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $2.75 / $4.50
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.5
- Weekly water
- 1.5 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 75
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 116.9
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Heavy
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 2.8 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.75 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 3 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 1.4 / 0.4 / 1.5 lb
- Family
- Brassicaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- 2026-01-31
- First harvest
- 2026-05-18
- Successions that fit
- 2 · every 14 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 46 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 79 seeds · 67 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $128.56 / $210.38
Companions
allium
Avoid
tomato