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Rex lettuce must be one of the most popular butterhead lettuces in production today. It is a thick-leaved summer type but often used year round. Excellent quality, slow-bolting and very strong against tip burn, with a nice, clean and well-closed base, its leaves are not brittle and it is easy to cut. Resistant to Bremia BL 1-12, 17, 18, 22.
Pelleted Seed
Lettuce seed from this supplier is untreated as standard.
A great shaped lettuce,with a well filled head and a good balance of outer leaves.
Frank is a heavy lettuce with a high resistance level. Click here for Tech Sheet - Frank Tech Sheet
A Compact long day butterhead lettuce for spring/summer/autumn production under glass. Suitable for both soil and hydroponic
production. Frank has good disease resistance Bl: 1-26,28-30; Nr: 0.
A medium green color with good tip burn and bolting resistance
Alternatives ALEXANDRIA or REX
Pelleted Seed
Lettuce seed from this supplier is Untreated as standard
Flandria is one of the standard glasshouse butterhead lettuce varieties for production from the spring to autumn. It is slow bolting and strong against tip burn, forming a well closed base. Resistant to BL 1-17, 21,23.
Unlike field varieties that are widely sold for use in greenhouse, these varieties are smaller framed allowing for higher plant populations with exceptional rates of growth that reach maturity much more quickly.
Pelleted Seed
Lettuce seed from this supplier is Untreated as standard.
Fairly is a greenhouse butterhead variety for the long day season. It is fast growing and heads have excellent weight. It has a closed, flat base making it an easy variety to clean at harvest. This variety has a large frame, fine ribs and a fresh, medium green color.
- Crop Lettuce
- Crop Type Butterhead
- Resistance HR Bl: 16-33EU/1-8US/Nr:0
- Growing Method Unheated Greenhouse
Unlike field varieties that are widely sold for use in greenhouse, these varieties are smaller framed allowing for higher plant populations with exceptional rates of growth that mean plants reach maturity much more quickly.
Alexandria F1
Alexandria is a newer summer variety of butterhead lettuce for indoor cultivation. It has good size and performance and is an easy summer variety (long day). Alexandria RZ can be grown on NFT, as a soil-grown crop and in floating production. It is very strong against tipburn and bolting and is very easy to cut.
Unlike field varieties that are widely sold for use in greenhouse, these varieties are smaller framed allowing for higher plant populations with exceptional rates of growth that mean plants reach maturity much more quickly.
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- Pelleted Seed
- Lettuce seed from this supplier is Untreated as standard.
Charles is a large framed long day variety for late spring, summer and early fall cultivation.
Charles is an attractive looking variety that performs well under many different locations and growing methods. It is widely adapted and an excellent choice as for greenhouse production.
It is a medium sized, thick leaved variety with an attractive color that is slow bolting and strong against tip-burn. Resistance: Bremia races 1,3-10,14-22.
Unlike field varieties that are widely sold for use in greenhouse, these varieties are smaller framed allowing for higher plant populations with exceptional rates of growth that reach maturity much more quickly.
Pelleted Seed
Lettuce seed from this supplier is Untreated as standard.
Casey is a fresh, medium green colored butterhead for indoor production under long daylength. Casey is medium-fast maturity and yields jumbo-sized heads with excellent weight. It has a flat, clean, closed base and a full disease resistance package. Strong roots and good heat tolerance make Casey a great choice for summer production.
- Crop Lettuce
- Crop Type Butterhead, Hydroponic Green butterhead
- Resistance HRBl-EU:16-37/Bl-US:1-9/Nr:0/Pb
- Growing Method Heated Greenhouse, Hydroponic
- Color Green
Seed is Pelleted, Untreated as standard
TO BE DISCONTINUED - Alternative is GILMORE
Skyphos is a large size Red Butter that is a ruby color halfway down the leaf with a brilliant green color contrast towards the core. It has great texture, slow bolting and very attractive, making it suitable for both Processor and Carton.
Resistant to HR Bl:1-26/Nr:0, IR LMV.
Unlike field varieties that are widely sold for use in greenhouse, these varieties are smaller framed allowing for higher plant populations with exceptional rates of growth that mean plants reach maturity much more quickly.
Pelleted Seed
Lettuce seed from this supplier is Untreated as standard.
Natalia RZ is a large butterhead. The leaves are medium thick with a blonde to mid-green colour.
It is strong against tipburn and bolting. It also has a clean, wellshaped base.
Resistances: HR Bl: 1-26 / Pb
Lettuce seed from this supplier is Untreated as standard.
Variety to be Phased out
Alternatives from Enza are are CASEY and FAIRLY
For alternatives from BASF - use FRANK or CHARLES
Espirando has proved itself as the large framed standard. This variety performs in screening trials still as one of the best large framed product models that we have seen. This variety is strong against tipburn and yellow leaf edges and is easy to trim.
- Crop Lettuce
- Crop type Butterhead
- Subtype Long Day
- Resistance HR Bl:16-26,28-35EU/Nr:0
- Growing Method Greenhouse
- Size Medium - Large
- Colour Green
Unlike field varieties that are widely sold for use in greenhouse, these varieties are smaller framed allowing for higher plant populations with exceptional rates of growth that mean plants reach maturity much more quickly.
