how do they grow more seedless fruit?
Cecil replies: Guess you can’t just plant more seeds, huh? But the fact is, you wouldn’t want to plant seeds even if you could. Sexual reproduction, which is mostly what you’re talking about when you grow things from seeds, is too chancy. I’ll say, you mutter. But if you think you’ve got problems, talk to a commercial fruit grower. An important function of sex, after all, is to shake up the gene pool. While that lends a certain charming variety to the offspring of us humans, it’s not something you want to encourage in, say, a Thompson seedless grape. Luckily, sex is only one method of propagating a species. There’s also asexual reproduction. Aha, you’re thinking, so that’s how my parents did it. No, smartypants. Asexual reproduction means making copies of the parent plant by means of cuttings, grafting, and so on. The offspring plants have the advantage, from a horticultural standpoint, of being perfect genetic duplicates or clones of the parent plant. So once you’ve bred the ultimate
