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FIELD GUIDE IN LETTUCE PRODUCTION
Lettuce grows on many kinds of soils, from sandy loam to clay loam. However, it thrives best on sandy loam and silt soils provided liberal amounts of organic matter with soil ph 6.6 is generally preferred. It is tolerant to high day temperature, often resulting to premature flowering, stunded leaf growth and bitter tasting leaves. At low elevation in high temperature areas some cultivars do not forms solid heads, they tend to flower precosciously and seed forming the normal number of rosette leaves. Cultivars have been selected which do not readily form flowering stems at high temperature. Elevation about 1,000 meters provides good condition for optimum growth.
