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What are the high-yield lettuce varieties? Detailed introduction to high-quality varieties

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Lettuce is a familiar vegetable, grown in almost every rural household. Lettuce has strong adaptability and can be cultivated in spring and autumn or overwintered, mainly in spring, with harvest in summer. Now is a good time to plant lettuce. Do you know which varieties are good to plant? Below

Lettuce is a familiar vegetable, grown in almost every rural household. Lettuce has strong adaptability and can be cultivated in spring and autumn or overwintered, mainly in spring, with harvest in summer. Now is a good time to plant lettuce. Do you know which varieties are good to plant? Below is an introduction to high-quality lettuce varieties.

1. Pointed-leaf lettuce

Pointed-leaf lettuce has a single stalk weighing 1.5-2.0 jin, the outer skin of the stalk is pale white-green, the flesh color is slightly darker, the stalk flesh is dense, tender and crisp, with relatively low water content and good quality; it can be eaten raw or cooked, and can also be pickled. It has relatively strong cold resistance and tolerates heat during the seedling stage; it can be grown in spring and autumn with a yield of about 8000 jin per mu.

2. Round-leaf lettuce

Round-leaf lettuce has upright leaves in a long obovate shape, with a bluntly rounded tip, light green color, and a relatively wrinkled leaf surface; the stem skin color is green-white and the flesh is white. The single-plant fleshy stem weighs 250-300 grams, with good quality, crisp and tender flesh, and a relatively strong aroma. The growing period is 180 days, mainly cultivated in spring.

3. Guasihong lettuce

Guasihong lettuce is a traditional local variety from Sichuan Province. The stem flesh is green and of good quality; a single stem weighs 600-700 grams, with the heaviest reaching 1 kg. It is early to mid-maturing, and harvesting begins 100-105 days after sowing. It is fertilizer-tolerant, disease-resistant and highly adaptable. The yield is high, at 2000-2500 kg per mu.

4. Green-skin lettuce

Green-skin lettuce is early-maturing, heat-tolerant, with long round leaves, not prone to pithiness, and average bolting resistance. The leaves are 23-30 cm long, obovate, and green in color; the fleshy stem has thin skin, the skin is pale tender green-white, and the taste is delicately fragrant with good quality.

5. Erbaipi lettuce

Erbaipi lettuce has round, green leaves and green-white skin. A single stem weighs 600 g, with excellent quality. From planting to harvest is 11-120 days, with a yield of 2000-2500 kg/667 sq m.

6. Yong'an lettuce

Influenced by specific geographical and climatic growing conditions, Yong'an lettuce has the characteristics of emerald-green flesh color, crisp and tender texture, abundant juice, few fibers, thick stems, thin skin, no hollow center, high edible rate, rich aroma, and low nitrite content, with a unique flavor and excellent quality.

7. Quanneng Yuxiang lettuce

Quanneng Yuxiang lettuce has large pointed leaves, thin green-white skin, pale green flesh, a delicately fragrant and crisp tender taste, and sparse internodes. It is both heat-tolerant and cold-tolerant. This variety is suitable for four-season planting across the country. In the Yangtze River Basin, it can be sown anytime between February 1 and November 30. When sowing in the high-temperature season from May to August, low-temperature germination is needed above 25 degrees C. The seedling age is 25-30 days, the plant spacing is 36 x 36 cm, and it is cultivated with deep furrows and high beds, with heavy application of base fertilizer.

8. Yongrong No. 1 lettuce

Yongrong No. 1 lettuce is a red pointed-leaf lettuce variety launched by Fuzhou Yongrong Seed Co., Ltd. It has very good cold resistance and is more suitable for cultivation at present. This lettuce variety also grows relatively fast, with a large and straight stalk, very good marketability, higher yield, and wide adaptability; under suitable cultivation conditions, its yield performance is more stable.

Lettuce is also a very popular vegetable. There are many lettuce varieties on the market, with varieties for every season. The varieties introduced above are all high-quality varieties and are all very worth planting. Do you have anything to add about lettuce varieties?

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