Bench notes
MUCILAGE. Dry-sow. Color needs 18 mol — the highest DLI on the rack. Two extra days vs Genovese.
Nursery / Basil
Dark Opal
Basil · Ocimum basilicum
Clove basil, purple
Seed / 1020
16 g
720 seeds / g
Soak
0 h
Do not soak — seed gels
Blackout
4 d
Dome · no weight
DLI
18 mol
16 h · 312.5 µmol
Cut
6 oz
$32.00 / lb · 16 d
Soak protocol
- Protocol
- Do not soak — seed gels
- Hours
- none — sow dry
- Gel seed
- Yes — do not soak
- Tray
- 10 × 20 in 1020
Blackout & light
- Method
- Dome · no weight
- Blackout days
- 4 d
- Paver
- none — do not stack weight
- Target DLI
- 18 mol·m⁻²·d⁻¹
- Photoperiod
- 16 h
- PPFD
- 312.5 µmol·m⁻²·s⁻¹
Yield · one 1020
- Cycle
- 16 d sow → cut
- Fresh cut
- 6 oz
- Wholesale
- $32.00 / lb
- Clamshell
- $5.25 · 4 oz
- Clamshells / tray
- 2
On this farm · 4 trays
- Seed
- 64 g · 46080 seeds
- Cut
- 24 oz
- Wholesale
- $48.00
- Clamshells
- 6 × 4 oz