Do Lettuce Cross pollinate???

[Rikesh]

i am actually growing some lettuce. i always collect my own seeds and sow them again. i recently got snother variety of lettuce. Will the lettuce cross pollinate with each other or i still can keep on collecting the seeds from both plants safely.

[Kisal]

Yes, insects can cross-pollinate different lettuces. Here is a link paper that discusses the cross-pollination of various plant species:

([url=https://209.85.173.132/search?q=cache:f3_ptvQsHHsJ:www.cog.ca/documents/SeedsofDiversitySU06.pdf+do+different+lettuces+cross+pollinate&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=2&gl=us]HTML version[/url])

(pdf format) https://www.cog.ca/documents/SeedsofDiversitySU06.pdf

[Rikesh]

thanks Kisal