Red Lettuce Varieties
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Overview
Rutilai F1 is a red oakleaf lettuce with an attractive internal green color, good tipburn and bolting tolerance, and strong downy mildew resistance. Growing faster than most full-red oak types but slightly slower than full-green types, Rutilai is a versatile variety suitable for year-round production in cooler areas and outdoor growing.
Key Performance Characteristics
- Type: Red oakleaf (internal green color)
- Growth rate: Faster than full-red types; slightly slower than full-green types
- Frame: Good, upright clean base
- Weight: Good
- Tipburn tolerance: Good
- Bolting tolerance: Good
- Downy mildew resistance: Attractive resistance level
- Seasons: Year-round in cooler areas
- Production systems: Greenhouse and outdoor
Seed Specifications
- Seed treatment: Pelleted, untreated as standard
- Packaging: Available in 100, 250, 1,000, 5,000 and 25,000 seed packs
Also consider Rouxai F1 and Bughatti F1 red oakleaf alternatives.
Lettuce Truchas is a Mini Romaine/Little Gem type that has a stunning contrast between green hearts and dark cherry red leaves. Beautiful size and color contrast pair well with the green Little Gem, Dragoon.
- Crop Lettuce
- Crop Type Little Gem
- Resistance HRBl:16-35EU/1-9US/TBSVResistance IRLMV:1
- Growing Method Open field
- Color Dark red
- Plant type Little Gem Red
Pelleted Seed
Lettuce seed from this supplier is untreated as standard.
Overview
Rubyglace F1 is a high-uniformity multileaf lettuce with intense red color, thick leaves, and very strong tipburn and bolting resistance. Designed for single-leaf sandwich and fresh wrap markets, Rubyglace's dark color and leaf structure also make it widely adaptable for farmers market and restaurant use.
Key Performance Characteristics
- Type: Multileaf (single-leaf market)
- Color: Intense dark red
- Leaves: Thick, high count, very uniform
- Vigor: Medium
- Base shape: Good
- Tipburn resistance: Very strong
- Bolting resistance: Very strong
- Best use: Sandwich, fresh wrap, farmers market, restaurant
Disease Resistance
- HR: Bremia Bl:16–35
Seed Specifications
- Seed treatment: Pelleted, untreated as standard
- Packaging: Available in 100, 250, 1,000 and 5,000 seed packs
Also consider Multired 80 F1 and Carmesi F1 for other red lettuce options.
DISCONTINUED - Alternativeds RUBYGLACE AND SCAMANDER
Multired 54 is a double red spiky type multileaf with deeply incised leaves and very small cut points.
This compact type keeps leaves small and yields well producing compact heads with good vigor, excellent tipburn tolerance and fair bolting tolerance.
High Disease Resistances (HR) Bl: 1-31; Nr: 0
Use Salad Mix; Whole Head
Variety Benefits
High number of uniform small leaves with small cut points give high recovery rate, for salad mixes with excellent shelf life
These “MULTi” types of lettuce are similar to the Salanova or Artisan types. Leaves are joined low at the base of the plant so the lettuce head can be prepared with a single cut – a real favorite at restaurants and local produce markets.
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.
This variety is available as untreated, pelleted seed only
Overview
Gilmore F1 is a dark red, large-framed butterhead lettuce for heated and unheated cultivation. With good cover leaves, a slowly filling head, a long harvest window, and yellow-green internal color with a red leaf base, Gilmore is strong against bolting, internal tipburn, and Big Vein — a reliable red butterhead for year-round greenhouse production.
Key Performance Characteristics
- Type: Red butterhead
- Color: Dark red exterior, yellow-green internal, red leaf base
- Frame: Large
- Head fill: Slowly filling — long harvest window
- Bolting resistance: Strong
- Internal tipburn resistance: Strong
- Big Vein resistance: Strong
- Production systems: Heated and unheated greenhouse
Disease Resistance
- HR: Bremia Bl:29–37, 39, 40EU
Seed Specifications
- Seed treatment: Pelleted, untreated as standard
- Packaging: Available in 100, 250, 1,000, 5,000 and 25,000 seed packs
Overview
Multired 4 F1 is a red multileaf lettuce with oak leaf-shaped leaves, brilliant red color, and an upright plant shape. A long-day variety with good vigor and bolting resistance, Multired 4 produces very big, thin, smooth leaves with a very nice appearance — a standout variety for restaurants and local produce markets where visual impact matters.
Key Performance Characteristics
- Type: Red multileaf (single-cut)
- Leaf shape: Oak leaf
- Color: Brilliant red
- Plant shape: Upright
- Leaves: Very big, thin, smooth
- Vigor: Good — not compact
- Day length: Long-day variety
- Bolting resistance: Good
- Shelf life: Medium
- Uniformity: Lower than compact types — very nice plant appearance
Seed Specifications
- Seed treatment: Pelleted, untreated as standard
- Packaging: Available in 100, 250, 1,000 and 5,000 seed packs
Also consider Multired 80 F1 and Rubyglace F1 for other red multileaf options.
A great looking Lollo Rossa – a very intense red color. Suitable for cultivation of land and under cover in a greenhouse or plastic tunnel. It creates a large shower head. BL 1-16, 21, 23
Lettuce seed from this supplier is Untreated as standard.
Red Multy type, Short Day. Medium volume of plant, very fast bolting and medium - low weight.
Open plant. Nice red color. Better results in winter. Medium thickness and curled leaves. Good uniformity and medium number of leaves.
Good volume of leaves.
Resistance: Bl1-25.
These "MULTi" types of lettuce are similar to the Salanova or Artisan types. Leaves are joined low at the base of the plant so the lettuce head can be prepared with a single cut - a real favorite at restaurants and local produce markets.
Slow bolting with a mild taste, red salad bowl lettuce is on of the standard baby leaf varieties. Ideal for salads, baby leaf mixes, the deeply lobed red leaves are an attractive choice for growers maturing at around 50 days.
Seed is non pelleted and untreated.
Overview
Ezflor F1 is an attractive Eazyleaf lettuce with a dark glossy red color and a unique leaf shape that works as both a red tango and redleaf type. Extremely easy to prepare — a single slice splits the plant into many equally sized small leaves — Ezflor maintains excellent texture and quality even under water stress and multiple harvests. A year-round performer for greenhouse and hydroponic production.
Key Performance Characteristics
- Type: Eazyleaf / Red Tango
- Color: Dark glossy red
- Leaf shape: Unique — suitable as red tango or redleaf
- Harvest: Single-cut — splits into many equally sized leaves
- Stress tolerance: Maintains quality under water stress
- Multiple harvests: Yes
- Seasons: Year-round production
Disease Resistance
- HR: Bremia Bl:29–41EU / Bl:1–9US / Fol:1,4 / Nr:0 / TBSV
Seed Specifications
- Seed treatment: Pelleted, untreated as standard
- Packaging: Available in 100, 250, 1,000, 5,000 and 25,000 seed packs
