Lettuce Butterhead Attraction Seeds

Lettuce Butterhead Attraction Seeds produce tender light-green leaves with a slightly sweet, buttery flavour. This exact Lactuca sativa cultivar forms a large, firm, slightly flattened butterhead for fresh kitchen use.

Grow it successfully: Read the Butterhead Attraction section of the South African Lettuce Grow Guide.

Quick Grow Facts

• Plant Type: Cool-season leafy vegetable annual
• Scientific Name: Lactuca sativa
• Exact Type: Attraction butterhead cultivar with a large light-green head
• Seed Form: Raw seed
• Pretreatment: None; sow as supplied and do not soak, scarify or chill
• General Sowing Time: Use a cool-season window; the packet says spring to autumn, but avoid peak heat and hot seedbeds
• Position: Full sun in cool weather; light afternoon shade as temperatures rise
• Sow Depth: 3 mm
• Germination Light: Light-favoured; use only a fine 3 mm cover and do not use blackout conditions
• Germination Temperature: 15–20°C
• Germination: 7–14 days
• Spacing: Packet spacing 30 × 30 cm; 25–30 cm is the supported cultivar range
• Transplanting: Move rooted plugs at several true leaves, commonly about 4–5 weeks; harden gradually and keep the crown at soil level
• Days to Harvest: 60–90 days
• Growth Type: Large butterhead with tender leaves
• Seed Quantity: 2 g raw seed: approximately 1 300 seeds; 20 g raw seed: approximately 13 000 seeds

Why Grow This Variety

• Tender leaves provide a soft butterhead texture.
• A subtle sweetness complements fresh dishes.
• Plants form large, firm, slightly flattened heads.
• Small succession sowings can extend cool-season harvests.

Garden Uses

Use Butterhead Attraction in salads and sandwiches, growing it in fertile beds, raised planters or a wide container that gives the head its full spacing.

Growing Notes

• Sow thinly in a fine seedbed or one to two seeds per module at exactly 3 mm.
• Keep at 15–20°C and evenly moist but never saturated for the full 7–14-day window.
• Transplant without checking growth or burying the crown; maintain 25–30 cm between plants.
• Prevent wet/dry swings that increase bitterness and tipburn, and cut the head before bolting.

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