| Lettuce Type: | Batavian |
| Plant Habit: | Herb/Forb |
| Life cycle: | Annual |
| Sun Requirements: | Full Sun |
| Water Preferences: | Mesic |
| Leaves: | Other: Crunchy green leaves with wine-red tips and red outer leaves. Open rosette like a butterhead when young. Small, upright head with green interior like a mini-Romaine or small crisphead when mature. |
| Uses: | Vegetable Salad greens |
| Propagation: Seeds: | Self fertile Needs specific temperature: 40F to 75F. Fastest from 60F to 70F. Days to germinate: 2-15 Depth to plant seed: 1/8 inch deep Sow in situ Start indoors Can handle transplanting Other info: Lettuce almost never cross-pollinates. It has perfect flowers and usually self-pollinates before opening. 48 DTM. OP variety from Europe, but that producer dropped it. Now available in the US. |
| Pollinators: | Self Flies |
| paleohunter | On March 2, 2024 | Transplanted |
| paleohunter | On December 10, 2023 | Seeds sown Hoophouse |
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