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Hi friends...long time!

I'm back to ask a genetics question.
I learned so much in the dwarf project but I'm having difficulty wrapping my brain around this question....
It's to do with clementine mandarines.
They are supposedly a seedless variety, but once in a while, there is a seed or two in them.
My question is: how?
And my next question is:
If planted, will they come true?

You know, just a simple question for your Saturday afternoon.
😁

How? Because nature wants to reproduce and will surprise you with it's creativeness every once in awhile.

No you will not get a seedless fruit from the seeds. The fruit will be a normal fruit and hold many seeds. You will only get a seedless fruit if you graft the plant onto a root stock. I have a Locust tree started from a seed of a seedless Locust tree. It is a normal Locust tree and makes a huge mess every year. It needs to be cut down.

[QUOTE=MissS;668745]How? Because nature wants to reproduce and will surprise you with it's creativeness every once in awhile.

No you will not get a seedless fruit from the seeds. The fruit will be a normal fruit and hold many seeds. You will only get a seedless fruit if you graft the plant onto a root stock. I have a Locust tree started from a seed of a seedless Locust tree. It is a normal Locust tree and makes a huge mess every year. It needs to be cut down.[/QUOTE]


I want the wood.:lol:

But!

You never get a seed in a navel orange.
Why?, if plants want to procreate creatively?

Never??? Can you be so sure about that? I have.

Lots of citrus come true from seed-nuceller (sp?) embryos.

[QUOTE=tessa;668751]But!

You never get a seed in a navel orange.
Why?, if plants want to procreate creatively?[/QUOTE]

Oranges i believe, like "seedless grapes" are sprayed with a chemical to start producing fruit without having been fertilized. Sometimes you will get a seed or two in these oranges or grapefruits or grapes because a bee got to them first.

and will they come true?

You expect them to lie? ;)

No, Mr Bond: I expect you to die.

I would expect that seeds like that wouldn't likely match the parent plant since who knows what hybrid genetics is going on to get plants to produce seedless fruit for a supermarket. Find one, plant it, and see!