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Re: [seedsavers] Seedless watermelons
Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
> A farmer in California I am in chat with now said this about making
>your won seedless watermelons:
>
> <Farmer_Mike> pick your watermelon that you like, plant, and grow
>them but pick the blooms off before they pollenate.
So, ummm...how do the plants pollinate to set fruit here? Is there a
step in there that is missing? I guess you could spray some of that
fruit set spray on it, but then I am thinking the watermelon would
probably be seedless this generation.
> Has anyone tried this?
The logic of it eludes me, thus I would never have tried it.
While this has a lot of technical stuff in it, it might answer for "how
you do it" a little bit more.
http://cuke.hort.ncsu.edu/cucurbit/wmelon/seedless.html
Happy growing!
Morgan
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