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Try Lowe's or Home Depot. They have a lot of garden supplies. Call around to different plant nurseries too, they will tell you exactly how to get them.

2007-03-27 07:45:12 · answer #1 · answered by Amanda D 3 · 0 3

"Grape breeders create new seedless plants by placing the pollen of a seedless grape onto the flowers of a grape variety that has seeds. They then cut open and inspect the fruit of every single plant that grows from this match. The breeders are looking for seeds -- some plants will have seeds in their fruit and others won't.

When they find a plant that has no seeds, or maybe just has very tiny traces of seeds that you wouldn't be able to taste, the grape breeders use it to make more seedless plants. One way is to cut off small pieces of the seedless plant's vine and place it in special growing conditions in a greenhouse. Eventually, the pieces of vine will grow roots and become new, individual plants. This technique is called propagation.

Or, the breeders can graft, or attach, a piece of the seedless grape variety onto a healthy vine base, called a rootstock. Think of it like this: When someone cuts their hand, a doctor sews the cut together, and the two pieces heal as one. The grafted vines grow together the same way. And, the grape variety attached to the rootstock keeps producing delicious seedless grapes"

2007-03-27 07:46:16 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1 0

Seedless grapes don't have seeds therefore you cannot get seeds to grow them. Propogation of seedless grapes is done through a cutting. A piece of the plant is cut off and planted with rooting hormone to force fresh roots to grow. Then that piece of the plant grows into a new plant. It's just plant cloning.

2007-03-27 07:51:47 · answer #3 · answered by veruca_psycho 2 · 1 0

You have to graft seedless grapes onto existing rootstock. The seedless grapes occured on a seeded variety years ago and someone realized it. They took cuttings from that plant and grafted then onto another grape vine. By doing so, the planter was able to turn that one plant into many. The same thing is done today. If you buy a seedless grape, you will be given a small grape vine to plant. It is already grafted and ready to grow. You cannot buy seeds for them.

2007-03-27 07:47:34 · answer #4 · answered by A.Mercer 7 · 1 1

Just go to a garden center. They sell the starter PLANTS. Seedless grapes are NOT grown from seed.

2007-03-27 07:54:16 · answer #5 · answered by saaanen 7 · 0 1

It's usually done by propagation. They cut a piece of the plant off and use rooting compound to get it to grow roots and thus a new plant is started.

2007-03-27 07:51:39 · answer #6 · answered by AzOasis8 6 · 1 0

Try some gardening websites such as Burke,etc.

2007-03-27 07:50:53 · answer #7 · answered by DOT 5 · 0 2

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