Bench notes
Same mucilage rule as Genovese. Dry-sow only. Chefs pay a premium for lemon.
Nursery / Basil
Mrs. Burns Lemon
Basil · Ocimum basilicum citriodora
Lemon basil
Seed / 1020
16 g
750 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
6.5 oz
$30.00 / 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
- 6.5 oz
- Wholesale
- $30.00 / lb
- Clamshell
- $5.00 · 4 oz
- Clamshells / tray
- 2
On this farm · 4 trays
- Seed
- 64 g · 48000 seeds
- Cut
- 26 oz
- Wholesale
- $48.75
- Clamshells
- 7 × 4 oz