How do you get seeds for seedless watermelon?
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Biologically the term is somewhat an oxymoron, since fruits are usually defined in a botanical sense as mature ovaries containing seeds.
Seedless fruits can develop in one of two ways: either the fruit develops without any fertilization (parthenocarpy), or pollination triggers fruit development but the ovules or embryos abort without producing mature seeds (stenospermocarpy). Seedless fruits of banana and watermelon are produced on triploid plants, whose three sets of chromosomes prevent meiosis from taking place and thus do not produce fertile gametes. Such plants can arise by spontaneous mutation or by hybridization between diploid and tetraploid individuals of the same or different species. Some species produce seedless fruit if not pollinated but seeded fruit if pollination occurs, e.g. pineapple and cucumber.
A common question is how, if they do not produce seeds, such plants can be propagated. In most cases the plants are propagated vegetatively from cuttings, by grafting, or in the case of bananas, from "pups" (offsets). In such cases the resulting plants are genetically identical clones. Oddly enough, seedless watermelons are grown from seeds. These seeds are produced by crossing diploid and tetraploid lines of watermelon, with the resulting seeds producing sterile triploid plants. Fruit development is triggered by pollination and these plants must be grown alongside a diploid strain to provide pollen.
One disadvantage of most seedless crops is that, as genetically identical clones, a pest or disease that can harm one individual can harm every individual of that clone. For example, the vast majority of commercially produced bananas come from a single clone, the 'Cavendish' cultivar, which is currently threatened worldwide by a newly discovered fungal disease to which it is highly susceptible.
Why would you want the seeds to put in a seedless watermelon? Why not just buy a seeded watermelon? duh,
Take seeds from a seeded watermelon. And why do you want seed in yours
Most home and garden stores will have them.
Try the garden centers of Home Depot or Loews.
If they don't have them there, I know I have seen packets on e-bay.
buy them perhaps!
Seedless watermelon is just picked early, before the seeds fully develope. If you look closely you will see small seeds forming that have not fully matured yet.
:) well if its seedless, then it woudln't have any seeds available for reproduction now would it?
whats up with everyone? GOOGLE IT!!!!!!!!! loads of different place to buy them
some war inside of the watermellon is a seed there has to be at least one
You can order them from seed companies, but they tend to take a long time to germinate, have 1/10th yield of a normal watermelon plant and require a normal watermelon plant to attempt to pollinate them and trick them into producing fruit. They are seedless because their parent plant was chemically induced to produce 4 sets of chromosomes instead of 2. Then those flowers were mated with regular watermelons and produced fruits that had three sets of chromosomes instead of 2, and are also sterile. But they still need a regular watermelon plant's pollen to trick the flower into bearing fruit. The seeds for a seedless melon are produced by mating a 3 chromosome plant with a regular plant, and saving the weirdo seeds the regular plant's fruit produces.
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