Bench notes
Workhorse. 40 g dry seed per 1020. Stack 8 lb three days, then 16 h light at 14 mol DLI. Cut above the hull line.
Nursery / Broccoli
Waltham 29
Broccoli · Brassica oleracea var. italica
Mild brassica, sweet stem
Seed / 1020
40 g
280 seeds / g
Soak
10 h
Cold water · 8–12 h
Blackout
3 d
8 lb paver
DLI
14 mol
16 h · 243.1 µmol
Cut
10 oz
$20.00 / lb · 10 d
Soak protocol
- Protocol
- Cold water · 8–12 h
- Hours
- 10 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
- 10 d sow → cut
- Fresh cut
- 10 oz
- Wholesale
- $20.00 / lb
- Clamshell
- $3.50 · 4 oz
- Clamshells / tray
- 3
On this farm · 4 trays
- Seed
- 160 g · 44800 seeds
- Cut
- 40 oz
- Wholesale
- $50.00
- Clamshells
- 10 × 4 oz