Notes
Slow-bolt Santo. Direct only — taproot hates pots. 10-day successions spring and fall. Split seed (coriander) before sowing for faster germ. Harvest whole plants for bunches.
Cultivars / Herbs
Santo
Cilantro · Coriandrum sativum
DTM
50 d
68 d occupancy · hardy
Rows
4
2 in in-row
Density
24
plants / bed-ft
Yield
4
bunches / bed-ft
Direct $/ft
$8.80
$2.50 / bunch
Propagation
- Method
- Direct seed
- Cell size
- —
- Nursery lead
- direct only
- Germination
- 10 d
- Germ temp
- 50°F – 75°F (opt 65°F)
- Seed spacing
- 1 in
Field geometry · 30 in
- Bed width
- 30 in
- Rows / bed
- 4
- In-row
- 2 in
- Seed spacing
- 1 in
- Plants / linear ft
- 24
- Plants / 50 ft
- 1200
Timeline
- DTM from field
- 50 d
- Holding
- 10 d
- Occupancy
- 68 d
- Multicut
- yes · 2 cuts · 8 d
- Fall photoperiod
- ×1.15
- Frost hardiness
- Hardy
Yield & revenue
- Sales unit
- bunch
- Units / bed-ft
- 4
- Avg unit wt
- 0.1 lb
- Target lb / bed-ft
- 0.4 lb
- Cull rate
- 12%
- Wholesale / Direct
- $1.50 / $2.50
Irrigation
- Drip lines / bed
- 2
- Emitter spacing
- 8 in
- Emitter GPH
- 0.25
- Weekly water
- 0.8 in
- GPH / 50 ft
- 37.5
- Gal / week · 50 ft
- 62.3
Soil extraction
- Fertility demand
- Moderate
- N / 100 bed-ft
- 0.7 lb
- P / 100 bed-ft
- 0.25 lb
- K / 100 bed-ft
- 0.6 lb
- N-P-K / 50 ft
- 0.4 / 0.1 / 0.3 lb
- Family
- Apiaceae
On this farm · 50 ft block
- Season window
- 2026-03-04 → 2026-11-10
- First greenhouse
- —
- First harvest
- 2026-04-23
- Successions that fit
- 10 · every 10 d
- Bed-ft for 50 lb
- 143 ft
- Seed for 50 ft
- 1412 seeds · 1200 plants
- Wholesale / Direct · 50 ft
- $264.00 / $440.00
Companions
anise · spinach
Avoid
fennel