Crispy & crunchy Crystal™
Crystal™ impresses with its resilience, reliability and first-class sensory properties - the ideal choice for fresh markets and processing.
Harvest the benefits of Crystal
Innovative, new lettuce type
Crystal is comparable to an open iceberg lettuce. Our varieties offer many, uniformly sized leaves. This structure offers optimum processing properties and opens up a wide range of applications for the food industry.
Numerous applications in gastronomy
The decorative leaves are ideal as individual loose leaves for use in the food service industry, e.g. for sandwiches, burgers and hotpots, making them the perfect replacement for conventional iceberg lettuce.
Ideal for hydroponic cultivation
Crystal is the ideal crunchy lettuce for hydroponic cultivation as a whole head and in close planting for mechanical harvesting of individual leaves.
Cultivation in soil, on hydroponics and in plant factories
Crystal lettuce is especially suited to CEA conditions: hydroponic production, high intensity lit crops and plant factories because of the following characteristics: it is strong against tip burn and elongation, delivers an iceberg crunch in a faster growing cycle and is high yielding. Cultivation in soil,
The ideal lettuce for warm dishes
The decorative Crystal leaves are ideal as individual loose leaves for use in the food service industry, e.g. for sandwiches and burgers, and are therefore the perfect replacement for conventional iceberg lettuce. Crystal leaves combine well with acidic and spicy ingredients while retaining their texture and crunchiness. The ideal lettuce