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Where Did All The Watermelon Seeds Go?

I admit, I like the seedless, but I’m lazy, and never learned how to spit seed out in an efficient manner.

…  are watermelons destined to go the way of supermarket tomatoes, where flavor has been sacrificed for convenience?

Before we get to that, a quick science lesson: How do you get a seedless watermelon? In a word – colchicine. The chemical, derived from the crocus and developed to treat and prevent gout since ancient Egypt, has found a niche in plant biology because of the way it impacts chromosome development.