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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Answer 1

Many seedless plants like Bananas are grown from cuttings, making all commercial banana plants genetic clones of each other.

But seedless watermelons are in fact grown from seeds. Diploid and Tetraploid watermelon varieties are cross pollinated to produce a sterile (seedless) watermelon plant.