How Do You Grow Seedless Grapes???

[Taz Devil]

If you need a seed to grow a grape then how do you grow a seedless grape from seed???

[salocius]

Because you don't need to grow them from a seed. I grow potatoes in my garden but have never bought any potato seeds.

Here is an extract I found that should answer your question.

It turns out that most fruits today do not come from seeds. They come from cuttings instead. This is true of grapes, blueberries, apples, cherries, etc. (pretty much all fruits except citrus, although scientists are working on that, too). A piece of a vine or branch is cut off, dipped in rooting hormone and then placed in moist dirt so that roots and leaves form. Because they come from cuttings, new grapevines are essentially clones of the vine they were cut from.

Seedless grapes actually do contain seeds at some point. But a genetic error prevents the seeds from forming hard outer coats like normal seeds do.

[Taz Devil]

I eventually found this explanation after a few google attempts.
But it's one of those mysteries that people don't give much attention to.

Grape breeders create new seedless plants by placing the pollen of a seedless grape onto the flowers of a grape variety that has seeds. They then cut open and inspect the fruit of every single plant that grows from this match. The breeders are looking for seeds -- some plants will have seeds in their fruit and others won't.

When they find a plant that has no seeds, or maybe just has very tiny traces of seeds that you wouldn't be able to taste, the grape breeders use it to make more seedless plants. One way is to cut off small pieces of the seedless plant's vine and place it in special growing conditions in a greenhouse. Eventually, the pieces of vine will grow roots and become new, individual plants. This technique is called propagation.

Or, the breeders can graft, or attach, a piece of the seedless grape variety onto a healthy vine base, called a rootstock. Think of it like this: When someone cuts their hand, a doctor sews the cut together, and the two pieces heal as one. The grafted vines grow together the same way. And, the grape variety attached to the rootstock keeps producing delicious seedless grapes.

[TheGuru]

I wonder if this works for bottles of beer

[Hyno]

Originally Posted by TheGuru

I wonder if this works for bottles of beer

LOL.

I just stuck a can of guinness in the ground - I'll let you know how it pans out.

[TheGuru]

Originally Posted by Hyno

LOL.

I just stuck a can of guinness in the ground - I'll let you know how it pans out.

If it works you will be a millionare

[kazthorn]

Originally Posted by TheGuru

I wonder if this works for bottles of beer

There is a beer ad on Aussie TV at the moment that does something very similar

[smartsez]

Hyno, I just realised-you live in the same place as my boyfriends best mate!

Bloody small world!

[Mike]

Originally Posted by smartsez

Hyno, I just realised-you live in the same place as my boyfriends best mate!

Bloody small world!

It is a small world!

We had somebody send in pictures of their cat for the Pet Gallery. It turned out that they live about 500 yards from us

Mike...

[billie114]

Many years ago we sent biltong(dried beef sticks...savoury snack that is very popular in SA) to friends in England. Anyway about 6 months later we got a letter from them asking how long it would take before it would grow and what kind of fruit would it bear. Turned out they thought it was a cutting and had planted it.

Maybe they thought a cow would grow.