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How Do They Make More Seedless Grapes if the Grapes Dont Have Seeds?

I think they just always use regular grapes but during the growing process, they modify them before the grapes grow but that is just a guess. anyone know for sure?

  1. Matthew H
    July 27th, 2010 at 21:21 | #1

    Well to correct the previous answerers obvious mistakes…seedless grapes don’t really matter. What you have to worry about are those pesky lemon poppy seed muffins: A. if you eat enough of them (around 45) you can’t pass a drug test, and even worse B. If you get one of those seeds stuck in between your teeth…forget about it…It will be impossible to get out and eventually grow into a full grown hippopotimus right in between your teeth…it will be so heavy you won’t be able to lift your head and you will die….or at least be very hungry…so only one muffin isn’t worth all the trouble.

  2. Uncle Al
    July 27th, 2010 at 21:21 | #2

    Cuttings and layering originally; cloning through callus tissue now.

  3. B .
    July 27th, 2010 at 21:21 | #3

    I’m no botonist, but I think that the term "seedless" is taken very loosley. Usually there is a seed or two that you will find (espicially in "seedless" watermelons).

  4. megsma12
    July 27th, 2010 at 21:21 | #4

    seedless grapes actually DO have seeds, they just havent reached the growth stage to be hard enough to be noticed when chewed. If you do a little scientific disection of a grape you will be able to see them. Seeded grapes are more like cherries…. you KNOW there are seeds there!

    :)

  5. curious orange
    July 27th, 2010 at 21:21 | #5

    Seedless fruit form through PARTHENOCARPY, which means ‘virgin fruit’. The female reproductive parts of the plant are tricked into thinking that they have been pollinated. Auxin plant hormones are used to do this. Seedless fruit has successfully been produced and sold from oranges and grapes (as well as some less popular fruits including pommegranate, persimmon, pineapple and watermelon) and the most recent development is seedless tomatoes, which make manufacture of ketchup and purees much more efficient, although to my understanding these tomatoes haven’t yet passed safety testing.
    For more info read:
    http://www.madsci.org/posts/archives/2002-04/1020215334.Ag.r.html

  6. flyer123
    July 27th, 2010 at 21:21 | #6

    How to make a more seedless grapes is that scientist cross pollinate with another fruit plant that does not have seeds by taking the pollen of the other fruit plant from the flower or bud putting it in the grapes flower or bud`s pistma. Also there are other ways to grow plants without using seeds like using roots,stem,leaf, or bud.

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