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Old 05-10-2004, 07:30 PM
Jaques d'Alltrades
 
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this year I have grown Butternut from seeds saved from supermarket fruits.
The plants were very spreading and the fruits are seedless and of beautiful
texture.


Question
As I had to fertilise the female flowers to obtain the fruit why are there
no seeds in the fruits.


May have been a F1 hybrid. Whether the seedlessness was built-in by the
seed developer, or serendipitous, I wouldn't know.

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