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Lettuce flowers, pod development & seed collection

Posted on November 12, 2016July 11, 2018 by mikeyroy
Lettuce flowers in bloom
Lettuce flowers in bloom
Lettuce seed ready to collect
Lettuce seed ready to collect
Collected lettuce seed
Collected lettuce seed

I’m not one to harvest lettuce seed for reuse, as I like to try out new varieties but I have been curious about how the flowers look, and how the seeds develop so I let some go to seed.

It took weeks before I caught some flowers actually open. Most of the day the flowers are tightly closed. Since I never saw any flowers open I was beginning to think that they never really opened.

Conveniently I had one plant with open blooms and another with fully formed seed heads at the same time for the photographs.

The seed head I pulled the seeds from contained 18 seeds. One plant going to seed would be more than enough to supply for any garden the next year.

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2 thoughts on “Lettuce flowers, pod development & seed collection”

  1. Geoffrey Grigg says:
    November 15, 2021 at 11:21

    Hello Mike

    Can a not for profit seedsavers website use the lettuce flower image on your home page please?

    We’re waiting for ours to flower this year, and we’re creating a populations distance video. We can credit you as you like.

    Thank you.

    Geoffrey

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    1. admin says:
      November 15, 2021 at 14:25

      Sure Geoffrey, feel free to use the lettuce seed photos in your video!

      Reply

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