How does a seedless watermelon re-produce?

Question

you know what im sayin...? Like with cantaloupe you plant the seeds inside the fruit to make more grow. And same for everything else as far as I know...sooooo...anyone?! Am I just an idiot?

Answer 1

I bought some seedless watermelon seeds for planting at Walmart this spring.  On the package it recommended another type of seeded watermelon seeds to be planted with it so it could pollenate.  Usually even seedless melons will have a couple black seeds in them

Answer 2

mad editor is right

Answer 3

Fruitless watermelons are triploid. That means they have three sets of chromosomes. The seed is harvested from the fruit of a tetraploid plant pollinated by a normal diploid.  When the triploid plant "fruitless" or sterile watermelon flower is fertilized the chromosomes don't "line up" 3:2 so the seeds abort. Those little white seeds are aborted watermelon seeds.

Answer 4

By cross-pollinating different varities of watermelons growers produce a sterile watermelon. When the seeds of the sterile variety are planted they produce seedless watermelon. For a more detailed explanation check out the University of Florida's extention web site http://edis.ifas.ufl.edu/CV006

Answer 5

Mad editor is an idoit...

Watermelon cant be propagated bycuttings..

And seedless melons are a hybrid..

they are created in a lab so the seed grows to be seedless melons..

they dont do that in nature.

Answer 6

You take a cutting and either plant it in the ground or graft it onto an existing plant. Much of fruit agriculture is done this way. (You ever see a banana seed? The ones we eat are a seedless variety.)