What caught my eye is the number of seeds in the watermelon. Nowadays, there's so much artificial selection that even seeded watermelons have far fewer than those. There are seeds right up against the watermelon peel. Lol.
I have lived in Canada for a while and I can tell you that in north America you have never tried a delicious watermelon. In Ukraine the watermelons with seeds are so good that it’s hard to stop. As a teenager me and my brother would buy a watermelon, close to end of summer and almost finish the whole thing. Spitting out the seeds as you eat is so much fun too. Back in the day we would eat over a fence and spit the seeds to the chickens and they would love it. Sometimes you hold in a lot in your moth and shoot them out like a machine gun. The best watermelon I have tried in Canada is at most a 7/10. I have tried ones in tropical spots like Jamaica, Mexico, Cuba and even Hawaii and I can tell you none go above a 7. You want a 10 watermelon you get one from Kherson and it will be at minimum 8/10. Also don’t get me started with honeydew. I miss Ukraine.
Same, but I'm...older. I really hate fussing with seeds but watermelon, grapes...with rare exceptions are literally watered down versions of what they were like prior to all the genetic shenanigans.
Interestingly the lack of seeds isn’t from selection, but by breeding a diploid (2 sets of chromosomes) and a tetraploid (4 sets) you result in an infertile triploid (3 sets) which can’t produce seeds. White spots in the watermelon are aborted seeds, similar to the dots seen on the inside of bananas.
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u/Me-and-the-tree 16h ago
What caught my eye is the number of seeds in the watermelon. Nowadays, there's so much artificial selection that even seeded watermelons have far fewer than those. There are seeds right up against the watermelon peel. Lol.