Lettuce Type: | Looseleaf |
Plant Habit: | Herb/Forb |
Life cycle: | Annual |
Sun Requirements: | Full Sun |
Water Preferences: | Mesic |
Leaves: | Other: Grown for its pink / light green / bronze oakleaf-shaped edible leaves. Extra-frilly, finely cut leaves. Can grow large. Start indoors and transplant widely spaced in early spring. |
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. Recent OP variety bred in OR by Frank Morton after crosing Salad Bowl and Rouge d'Hiver. |
Pollinators: | Self Flies |
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