How do they grow a seedless watermelon??

Question

I've seen seedful and seedless ones, but how is it done?? I don't wanna grow one, but it's something I wonder about.

Answer 1

same as a normal watermelon, they just harvest it before the seeds have time to develope. thats why a seedless watermelon is smaller than the normal ones. These are the ones you buy that have the white half developed seeds in the stores. the OTHER kind, with absolutely no seeds, is done genetically. Wikipedia says this:

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

and a more scientific explanation (ie, bigger words) is given by TAMU:
So, where do the seeds come from? Simply stated, the number of chromosomes (the threadlike bodies within cells that contain the inheritance units called genes) in a normal watermelon plant is doubled by the use of the chemical colchicine. Doubling a normal (diploid) watermelon results in a tetraploid plant (one having four sets of chromosomes). When the tetraploid plant is bred back, or pollinated, by a diploid or normal plant, the resulting seed produces a triploid plant that is basically a "mule" of the plant kingdom, and it produces seedless watermelons. Seed of seedless varieties are available from most major seed companies.

So it depends on where you're buying from.

Answer 2

Selective Breeding.

They develop new species by crossing two different varieties and see what the "offspring" is. Someone must have done that and found one that doesn't delevop seeds itself (or the seeds don't mature).

Sort of like a Mule. A mule is a cross between a horse and a donkey, but has no seeds itself (sterile - can't reproduce).

Same with the seedless watermelon. (but different)

Answer 3

It is a specially bred melon that begins with the seeded variety and they cross pollinate it to those that have the characteristics they want so it is really a hybrid that would not come back true if you did find a seed inside. There are a few seeds from time to time but they are not so prevelent or do not form as normal ones do. Time to harvest is about the same as the seeded and if you look closely, you will find there are seeds in there but just not developed. That is part of the breeding process.

Answer 4

There is no such thing called seedless water melon and if it is may be its a artifical not the real

Answer 5

There are watermellows with very few seeds. You can buy them from Burpee for example

Answer 6

same way the grown regular watermelon

Answer 7

It's a secret. I could tell ya, but then I'd have to kill ya.