Vegetable / Cool season
White Stem Bok Choy
Spring and fall containers, raised beds, and fast stir-fry greens.
Mild spoon-shaped greens with juicy white stems.
Seed spacing and maturity
- Days to maturity
- 45
- Germination temperature
- 45-85F
- Seed depth
- 0.25 inches
- Spacing
- 8 inches
- Row spacing
- 18 inches
- Start method
- Either
Frost-date timing
- Indoor start
- 4 weeks before last frost
- Direct sow
- 21 days before last frost
- Transplant
- 14 days before last frost
- Fall planting
- 8 weeks before first frost
- Succession interval
- repeat every 14 days
Action plan
- Can I plant this now?
- Use your local last-frost, first-frost, and soil-temperature checks before treating this crop as plantable today.
- Start indoors or direct sow?
- Direct sow or transplant depending on your soil warmth, bed readiness, and frost-risk plan.
- How much space?
- 8 inches in-row spacing, 18 inches between rows, and 0.25 inch seed depth.
- Best companions?
- Use crop-family rotation first, then pair with compatible timing, spacing, and canopy size rather than relying on a simple companion chart.
- Common failure modes?
- Temperature swings and crowded roots can trigger early flowering. Keep soil evenly moist for crisp stems. Fertile, well-drained soil rich in organic matter.
Growing profile
- Sun
- Full sun to part shade
- Water
- Keep soil evenly moist for crisp stems.
- Soil
- Fertile, well-drained soil rich in organic matter.
- Watch
- Temperature swings and crowded roots can trigger early flowering.
- asian-greens
- brassica
- quick-crop
- containers
Browse context
- Vegetable Catalog Category collection
- Mustard Family Rotation and family context
- Cool Season Seeds Season collection
- Either Seeds Start-method collection
- Container-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Beginner-Friendly Seeds Practical trait collection
- Succession Sowing Seeds Practical trait collection
- Quick-Maturity Seeds Practical trait collection
- Fall-Planting Seeds Practical trait collection
- Part-Shade-Tolerant Seeds Practical trait collection
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Source: CSU vegetable planting guide