Bench notes
Faster than heading broccoli. Same stack protocol. Harvest day 9 before true leaves toughen.
Nursery / Broccoli raab
Spring Raab
Broccoli raab · Brassica rapa ruvo
Mustard-brassica, slightly bitter
Seed / 1020
38 g
300 seeds / g
Soak
8 h
Cold water · 8–12 h
Blackout
3 d
8 lb paver
DLI
14 mol
16 h · 243.1 µmol
Cut
9.5 oz
$20.00 / lb · 9 d
Soak protocol
- Protocol
- Cold water · 8–12 h
- Hours
- 8 h
- Gel seed
- no
- Tray
- 10 × 20 in 1020
Blackout & light
- Method
- Stacked + paver
- Blackout days
- 3 d
- Paver
- 8 lb
- Target DLI
- 14 mol·m⁻²·d⁻¹
- Photoperiod
- 16 h
- PPFD
- 243.1 µmol·m⁻²·s⁻¹
Yield · one 1020
- Cycle
- 9 d sow → cut
- Fresh cut
- 9.5 oz
- Wholesale
- $20.00 / lb
- Clamshell
- $3.50 · 4 oz
- Clamshells / tray
- 2
On this farm · 4 trays
- Seed
- 152 g · 45600 seeds
- Cut
- 38 oz
- Wholesale
- $47.50
- Clamshells
- 10 × 4 oz