Bench notes
Hulls like sunflower. 12 h soak, 10 lb stack. Cut before true leaves (they are bitter).
Nursery / Buckwheat
Common
Buckwheat · Fagopyrum esculentum
Mild, lettuce-like
Seed / 1020
150 g
30 seeds / g
Soak
12 h
Cold water · 8–12 h
Blackout
4 d
10 lb paver
DLI
12 mol
16 h · 208.3 µmol
Cut
10 oz
$14.00 / lb · 9 d
Soak protocol
- Protocol
- Cold water · 8–12 h
- Hours
- 12 h
- Gel seed
- no
- Tray
- 10 × 20 in 1020
Blackout & light
- Method
- Stacked + paver
- Blackout days
- 4 d
- Paver
- 10 lb
- Target DLI
- 12 mol·m⁻²·d⁻¹
- Photoperiod
- 16 h
- PPFD
- 208.3 µmol·m⁻²·s⁻¹
Yield · one 1020
- Cycle
- 9 d sow → cut
- Fresh cut
- 10 oz
- Wholesale
- $14.00 / lb
- Clamshell
- $3.25 · 4 oz
- Clamshells / tray
- 3
On this farm · 4 trays
- Seed
- 600 g · 18000 seeds
- Cut
- 40 oz
- Wholesale
- $35.00
- Clamshells
- 10 × 4 oz