Bench notes
Dehulled seed is cleaner and faster. Lighter paver. Watch mold — no hulls to wick.
Nursery / Sunflower
Black Oil dehulled
Sunflower · Helianthus annuus
Nutty, no hull mess
Seed / 1020
180 g
18 seeds / g
Soak
16 h
Overnight · 16 h
Blackout
3 d
10 lb paver
DLI
14 mol
16 h · 243.1 µmol
Cut
11 oz
$16.00 / lb · 8 d
Soak protocol
- Protocol
- Overnight · 16 h
- Hours
- 16 h
- Gel seed
- no
- Tray
- 10 × 20 in 1020
Blackout & light
- Method
- Stacked + paver
- Blackout days
- 3 d
- Paver
- 10 lb
- Target DLI
- 14 mol·m⁻²·d⁻¹
- Photoperiod
- 16 h
- PPFD
- 243.1 µmol·m⁻²·s⁻¹
Yield · one 1020
- Cycle
- 8 d sow → cut
- Fresh cut
- 11 oz
- Wholesale
- $16.00 / lb
- Clamshell
- $4.00 · 4 oz
- Clamshells / tray
- 3
On this farm · 4 trays
- Seed
- 720 g · 12960 seeds
- Cut
- 44 oz
- Wholesale
- $44.00
- Clamshells
- 11 × 4 oz