How are seedless watermelons raised if they're SEEDLESS?

Question

I can see whitish seedlike stuff in the watermelon, but are they really seeds?

Answer 1

They are not actually seedless, really. It is just that the seeds are smaller and there are fewer of them. Seedless watermelon are produced from seed which have three

sets of the necessary genetic material or chromosomes. These seed, known as triploid, have special germination requirements.

Answer 2

All seedless watermelons are 'hybrids', they are a cross of two types of other watermelons, and the white seeds in them are sterile, they can't make more seedless. I like to use the analogy of the mule.  You mate a regular horse with a donkey, and the offspring is called a mule, the mule is a hybrid. The mules are sterile and cannot reproduce, like the white seeds of a seedless watermelon.

Answer 3

they truly aren't seedless. the seeds a small and soft so you can actually swallow them if you so desired.  i personally don't like the seedless.

Answer 4

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/exten...

not so technical here..

http://darwin.nmsu.edu/~molbio/plant/wat...

Answer 5

I bought a pack of seeds this year to grow some seedless and on the pack it suggests another type of watermelon to plant along with this kind so it can pollenate.  Usually you will notice a few black seeds in a seedless watermelon and those are apparently the ones they use cause the ones in the pack were black.  The resulting watermelons will be hybrid since they have to be pollenated with a different type of plant

Answer 6

Both parent varieties are grown from seed.

They are the result of pollinating one varieties flower on the vine with a different varieties pollen. The resulting cross is 'seedless'

Answer 7

yes goatsmeller the white things are seeds