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Anonymous

Feb 18, 2025

Are there such things as seedless strawberries?

We were sitting at work discussing the Strawberry Festival happening down the street later, and one of my colleagues mentioned that she wouldn’t be going because the seeds in strawberries get stuck in her teeth. She exclaimed, “They need to figure out how to make seedless strawberries! They can make seedless grapes, oranges, and watermelons—why not strawberries?” So, my question is: Are there such things as seedless strawberries?

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Presently there exists no thing such as seedless strawberries.

Seedless fruit plants have arisen by mutation, such as the naval orange and banana; by breeding as for seedless watermelon and seedless grapes; in some dioecious species, such as persimmon, when no male plants are nearby; and in some species which cannot self-pollinate, such as pineapple. Application of plant hormones (auxins, gibberellins or cytokinins) often can give rise to seedless fruits. Home gardeners can get seedless tomatoes by applying a special product containing an auxin to the flowers.

If you wanted a seedless strawberry, the hormone approach would probably be the most direct, if it would work. You would have to prevent pollination of the flowers, which leads to seeds, by caging the plants with insect proof screen. Then you would apply auxin to the flowers. A strawberry fruit is an accessory fruit because much of the edible part of the fruit is formed from the flower receptacle. The real fruits (achenes) are what is commonly termed the seeds.

Ultimately, it would not be worthwhile economically to produce seedless strawberries because the strawberry seeds are so small and easily eaten.

Seedless fruits are economically important when the seeds are not easy to chew and digest, as they are in grapes, citrus, bananas and pineapples.

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Anonymous

Feb 14, 2025

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Are there such things as seedless strawberries?

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Anonymous

Feb 18, 2025

My aunt Marcia developed seedless strawberries at Cornell back in the late 80’s (early 90’s? I was young at the time), but I can’t seem to find anything on the Internet about it. There was a write up in one of the gardening magazines at the time. But yes, they do, or at least did, exist.

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Anonymous

Feb 19, 2025

if strawberries didn’t have seeds then how would they reproduce? plants reproduce by seeds, some by spores but if they didn’t have seeds then there wouldn’t be any strawberries left in the world.

details. Oh sorry didn’t read your details, well yeah you can get seedless strawberries by taking the seeds out first you have to put some type of a medicine in the strawberry as a seed and as it grows it becomes a seedless strawberry. find out how seedless grapes come from and do the same to the strawberies

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Anonymous

Feb 10, 2025

What is regarded to be the seeds of the strawberries (small yellow/reddish points on the surface) are really the actual fruits the big part that we eat (red outside – white inside) is really the bottom of the blossom.

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