Data specific to Lettuces (Edit)
Lettuce Type: Romaine

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Leaves: Other: Grown for its edible leaves. Apple green leaves mottled with reddish specks.
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. 55 DTM. OP variety from Austria.
Pollinators: Self
Flies

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Alternative cultivar names:
  • 'Forellenschluss'
  • 'Spotted Trout'

Common names
  • Lettuce
  • Cos Lettuce
Also sold as:
  • 'Flashy Trout's Back'
  • 'Freckles'

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Date: 2024-01-01

Date: 2024-01-01
Location: Chicago Botanical Gardens
Date: 2013-05-06
Location: Sherwood, Oregon
Date: 2017-04-30

Date: 2023-10-19

Date: 2023-10-19

Date: 2023-10-19

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Photo Courtesy of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds. Used with permissio
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Comments:
  • Posted by Trish (Grapevine, TX - Zone 8a) on May 2, 2022 1:46 PM concerning plant:
    75 days. An Austrian heirloom that's similar to 'Freckles' but larger and with more scarlet splotches.
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