Watermelon seeds?
Question:Can you use the seed from the watermelon you buy from a store to start a plant? I heard the the growers sometimes do something to the plant to stopped from doing this.
Answers:
You can and it will grow, but if it is a hybrid it will revert to one of the parent types. The only kind of seed you can keep/replant are non-hybrid or heirloom varieties.If you think you have a non-hybrid type, let the seeds dry out, then put them in the refrigerator to go thru a cold spell. Plant them next year (too late this year).
These seeds straight from the melon would rot before they would sprout....If you want watermelon...buy some seed..it is too late in the year to grow them now.
If it is just a normal watermelon you can. If it is the seedless variety where the seeds are soft and almost nonexistent you can't.
you can try, I think we did it before when we were little.
take a couple seeds and put them with a damp papertowel into a ziploc bag and seal it completely. If it will grow, you should start to see it germinate within a couple weeks. Let it grow a bit then transfer it to a small pot. When it gets big enough, put it in the ground to let it continue to grow.
Yes, definitely. I did it when I was a kid just by sitting on the back porch eating watermelon and spitting the seeds into the yard. My children did it in Las Vegas by actually planting them.
I've tried this before - dried them and then planted them. They sprouted but they grew really slow an just looked sickly and never produced fruit. I would just buy seeds from home depot or something - only 1 or 2 bucks for a bunch of seeds. I plant watermelons every year - "Jubilee" is a good variety for the South it's the one I always use.
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