Bench notes
MUCILAGE. Dry-sow onto a wet pad. 2 d dome, cut day 7. Soak water = slime mat.
Nursery / Garden cress
Curled
Garden cress · Lepidium sativum
Peppercress, sharp
Seed / 1020
20 g
450 seeds / g
Soak
0 h
Do not soak — seed gels
Blackout
2 d
Dome · no weight
DLI
12 mol
14 h · 238.1 µmol
Cut
7 oz
$22.00 / lb · 7 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
- 2 d
- Paver
- none — do not stack weight
- Target DLI
- 12 mol·m⁻²·d⁻¹
- Photoperiod
- 14 h
- PPFD
- 238.1 µmol·m⁻²·s⁻¹
Yield · one 1020
- Cycle
- 7 d sow → cut
- Fresh cut
- 7 oz
- Wholesale
- $22.00 / lb
- Clamshell
- $3.75 · 4 oz
- Clamshells / tray
- 2
On this farm · 4 trays
- Seed
- 80 g · 36000 seeds
- Cut
- 28 oz
- Wholesale
- $38.50
- Clamshells
- 7 × 4 oz