Eli5 How do people grow seedless watermelons? Like where do they get the seeds?

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Eli5 How do people grow seedless watermelons? Like where do they get the seeds?

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>How do people grow seedless watermelons?

They plant seeds for seedless watermelons and they grow. 😋

>Like where do they get the seeds?

Farmers buy those seeds from seed manufacturers (like Monsanto or DuPont).

If you are asking how are seedless watermelon seeds created, then that has to do with the cross-breeding of two specific strains of watermelon — *one diploid (normal complement of DNA) with one tetraploid (double the normal amount of DNA)* — which results in a sterile strain. So seedless watermelons are sterile, meaning that they can produce no offspring, so the seeds present (they are not truly seedless) are very slight and are hardly noticed when eaten.