Lio by Mark Tatulli for April 10, 2013
April 09, 2013
April 11, 2013
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Spring Planter Watermelon Seeds P-Tui P-Tui P-Tui
Spring Planter Watermelon Seeds P-Tui P-Tui P-Tui
You don’t. Seedless watermelons are the result of crossing normal diploid (2 sets of chromosomes) watermelons with tetraploid (4 sets of chromosomes – which themselves are produced by chemical induction) watermelons to produce triploid (3 sets of chromosomes) watermelons. These, when grown, will produce seedless watermelons. New seeds have to be produced this way every year.