This hard, sugarless, unripe tomato sure is red though
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At this point, I barely even buy tomatoes to put into food anymore. If mom's been growing them in her greenhouse any given year, I'll eat a few off the vine. The stuff in stores? Ehh, it barely has flavour.
What about seedless watermelon
That's treated with a chemical to keep it from making seeds.
So, the same applies to seedless grapes?
They're often treated with hormones.
I sort of misspoke with regard to watermelons -
Seedless watermelons are created by crossing a regular watermelon with 22 chromosomes with one that's been chemically treated to have 44 chromosomes. The resulting hybrid has 33 chromosomes, making it sterile and seedless.
This is a bit misleading. You only need to treat the first generation of 2n watermelon with colchicine (which inhibits the movement of chromosomes during metaphase) to produce a 4n watermelon. Once you have a 4n watermelon, subsequent generations do not require colchicine treatment.
Ah, OK. That makes sense. Thank you.
Not the person you replied to but thanks. Doesn't that contradict the meme ?
Seriously? I assumed sterile hybrid
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Companies DO irradiate non organic ginger though, sterilizing it, before shipping it to stores.