Data specific to Lettuces (Edit)
Lettuce Type: Loose head or Butterhead

General Plant Information (Edit)
Plant Habit: Herb/Forb
Life cycle: Annual
Sun Requirements: Full Sun
Water Preferences: Mesic
Plant Spread: 4 inches
Leaves: Other: Grown for its tender, green, edible leaves with red-tinged tips and blanched interior. Tasty. Some heat tolerance and some disease tolerance.
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 Germany. Bred from Merveille des Quatre Saisons but less prone to bolting.
Pollinators: Self
Flies

Common names
  • Lettuce
  • Butterhead
Also sold as:
  • Sprenkel
  • Brauner Trotzkopf

Comments:
  • Posted by RickCorey (Everett WA 98204 - Zone 8a) on Jul 19, 2013 4:44 PM concerning plant:
    'Pirat' is a lettuce variety from Germany, bred from the French heirloom 'Merveille des Quatre Saisons.' It resists bolting better than the notoriously fast-bolting Marvel of Four Seasons. "Pirat" is one of the German words for "Pirate."

    It is also known as 'Sprenkel' (German for "speckle").

    Another name is "Brauner Trotzkopf," meaning "brown something-head." Some seed vendors call the red speckles "brown."

    Perhaps "Brauner Trotzkopf" is understood as "brown stubborn-head" or "brown tenacious-head" because it resists bolting. (Other possibilities include "brave head" and "defiant head.")

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