Lettuce Caipira Batavia | 1000 Seeds

Lettuce Caipira Batavia is the versatile, heat-tolerant and visually attractive lettuce variety that growing numbers of Nigerian farmers are choosing for their salad crop operations. Batavia lettuce occupies a unique and highly desirable position in the lettuce world, combining the crunch and crispness of iceberg lettuce with the open, ruffled leaf structure and visual appeal of loose-leaf varieties. The result is a lettuce that has excellent eating quality, attractive market presentation and significantly better heat tolerance than standard iceberg types.

Caipira’s heat tolerance is particularly valuable for Nigerian farmers, where high temperatures during much of the growing year make producing quality crisphead lettuce challenging. While standard iceberg varieties bolt quickly and develop bitter flavors in heat, Batavia types like Caipira are much more forgiving in warm conditions, giving Nigerian farmers a wider production window and more consistent quality throughout the year.

Key features of Lettuce Caipira Batavia 1000 Seeds:

• Batavia semi-crisphead type combining crunchy texture with attractive ruffled open leaf structure
• Medium-sized heads with beautiful ruffled leaf edges and appealing light to medium green colour
• Excellent heat tolerance making it suitable for warm season production in Nigerian conditions
• Slow to bolt in warm weather preventing early flowering and bitter flavour development
• Crisp, refreshing and mild flavour preferred by consumers for fresh salads
• Attractive visual appeal for retail display, restaurant presentation and fresh market sales
• Good shelf life maintaining quality during transportation and retail display
• Suitable for open field, greenhouse and screen house production
• 1000 seeds per pack for commercial scale lettuce production
• Growing demand from Nigerian supermarkets, restaurants and health-conscious consumers

How to grow Lettuce Caipira Batavia:

Start seeds in nursery trays and transplant at 3 to 4 weeks old when seedlings have 4 to 5 true leaves. Space plants 25 to 30 cm apart in rows 30 cm apart. Provide consistent watering throughout the growing period. Apply balanced fertilizer at transplanting and repeat 3 weeks later. Grow in partial shade or with shade netting during the hottest periods for best results and slowest bolting. Harvest when heads are well-formed and before any signs of bolting for best eating quality.

Lettuce Caipira Batavia 1000 Seeds is the heat-tolerant, visually attractive and great-tasting lettuce variety for Nigerian farmers who want consistent salad crop quality in warm conditions. Order yours today from HTS Farms.