Bench notes
Color sells. 32 g/flat. Do not over-seed — crowding yellows the first true leaf.
Nursery / Kale
Red Russian
Kale · Brassica napus
Sweet kale, pink stem
Seed / 1020
32 g
300 seeds / g
Soak
8 h
Cold water · 8–12 h
Blackout
3 d
6 lb paver
DLI
14 mol
16 h · 243.1 µmol
Cut
9 oz
$22.00 / lb · 10 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
- 6 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
- 9 oz
- Wholesale
- $22.00 / lb
- Clamshell
- $3.75 · 4 oz
- Clamshells / tray
- 2
On this farm · 4 trays
- Seed
- 128 g · 38400 seeds
- Cut
- 36 oz
- Wholesale
- $49.50
- Clamshells
- 9 × 4 oz