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  2. Beware: Watermelons Can Literally Explode If You're Not Careful

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    If watermelons are past their prime, they run the risk of foaming, cracking, and even exploding. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 more ...

  3. People are reporting that their watermelons are exploding ...

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    Watermelons can offer a nice explosion of flavor in your mouth, but they shouldn’t be spontaneously combusting. Oddly enough, that’s exactly what some fans of the popular fruit are worried ...

  4. Watermelon fields are waterlogged. Why St. Helena ... - AOL

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    The fall watermelon harvest makes up 10% to 20% of the total because there’s still demand across South Carolina and even outside the state for the local melons, with many of them being sold as ...

  5. Melon necrotic spot virus - Wikipedia

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    In particular, the hosts include watermelons (Citrullus lanatus), cucumbers (Cucumis sativus), and melons (Cucumis melo). [citation needed] On watermelon, MNSV produces chlorotic lesions on leaves, stems, and/or cotyledons, which turn into dark brown local lesions. [1] These brown local lesions indicate necrosis occurring on the specific plant ...

  6. Watermelon - Wikipedia

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    Watermelons have a longer growing period than other melons and can often take 85 days or more from the time of transplanting for the fruit to mature. [37] Lack of pollen is thought to contribute to "hollow heart" which causes the flesh of the watermelon to develop a large hole, sometimes in an intricate, symmetric shape.

  7. Seedless fruit - Wikipedia

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    By contrast, seedless watermelons are grown from seeds. These seeds are produced by crossing diploid and tetraploid lines of watermelon, with the resulting seeds producing sterile triploid plants. Fruit development is triggered by pollination, so these plants must be grown alongside a diploid strain to provide pollen.

  8. Why once-covered fields in southwest Kansas lost their ... - AOL

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    These new southwest Kansans weren’t just growing watermelons, but sharing the ability to grow watermelons around the country. There was even a story from the Lakin Investigator in 1910 of a man ...

  9. Parthenocarpy - Wikipedia

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    Seedless watermelon plants are actually grown from seeds. The seeds are produced by crossing a diploid parent with a tetraploid parent to produce triploid seeds. It has been suggested that parthenocarpy could explain the difference in the yields in active compounds of the genus Cannabis. [5] [6] Some parthenocarpic cultivars are of ancient origin.