Just to let you know,
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The lettuce plants are bolting. Lettuce is a cool weather plant, when the weather warms up they figure they are about to die. So they elongate (bolt) upward in an attempt to flower and seed before they die. You should try to keep the temperature in the low 70's, but no more than 80 degrees max. The leaves are still editable though. Just cut them off one by one, soak them in cool water in the sink, then towel dry and put in a Ziploc bag in the frig. Some say they can be a little bitter, but that's what I did and I didn't notice that.
Also I use natural light so I don't have first hand knowledge of artificial lighting. But as I understand it, lettuce is a low light requirement plant. Meaning that they don't need a lot of light intensity, and actually do better with low intensity lighting.
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