Bench notes
MUCILAGE. The textbook failure mode. Dry-sow onto moist media. Never a jar soak.
Nursery / Chia
Black chia
Chia · Salvia hispanica
Mild, nutty
Seed / 1020
24 g
500 seeds / g
Soak
0 h
Do not soak — seed gels
Blackout
none
Direct to light
DLI
14 mol
16 h · 243.1 µmol
Cut
6 oz
$24.00 / lb · 10 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
- Direct to light
- Blackout days
- 0 d
- Paver
- none — do not stack weight
- 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
- 6 oz
- Wholesale
- $24.00 / lb
- Clamshell
- $4.00 · 4 oz
- Clamshells / tray
- 2
On this farm · 4 trays
- Seed
- 96 g · 48000 seeds
- Cut
- 24 oz
- Wholesale
- $36.00
- Clamshells
- 6 × 4 oz