Bench notes
MUCILAGE. Water soak forms a gel and the crop fails. Dry-sow 18 g. Dome 4 d, then 16 mol. Never stack wet.
Nursery / Basil
Genovese
Basil · Ocimum basilicum
Sweet basil
Seed / 1020
18 g
700 seeds / g
Soak
0 h
Do not soak — seed gels
Blackout
4 d
Dome · no weight
DLI
16 mol
16 h · 277.8 µmol
Cut
7 oz
$28.00 / lb · 14 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
- 16 mol·m⁻²·d⁻¹
- Photoperiod
- 16 h
- PPFD
- 277.8 µmol·m⁻²·s⁻¹
Yield · one 1020
- Cycle
- 14 d sow → cut
- Fresh cut
- 7 oz
- Wholesale
- $28.00 / lb
- Clamshell
- $4.75 · 4 oz
- Clamshells / tray
- 2
On this farm · 4 trays
- Seed
- 72 g · 50400 seeds
- Cut
- 28 oz
- Wholesale
- $49.00
- Clamshells
- 7 × 4 oz