# Seedless grapes

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**Created:** [March 22, 2002, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seedless-grapes/99616 "2002-03-22T21:28:03Z")\
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**Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 9:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seedless-grapes/99616/1 "2002-03-22T21:28:03Z")

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How do you grow “seedless” grapes at home?

EJ

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**Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seedless-grapes/99616/2 "2002-03-22T21:34:55Z")

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You need to buy a vine that (usually)has a bud of the seedless cultivar grafted to a different rootstock; seedless grapes are sterile mutations, but the mutation, once it arises, can be propagated vegetatively.

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**Post date:** [March 22, 2002, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/seedless-grapes/99616/3 "2002-03-22T21:44:22Z")

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> **[Growing Grapes in the Home Fruit Planting](https://ohioline.osu.edu/factsheet/hyg-1423)**
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> Grapes are an excellent fruit for fresh use or processing into jam, jelly, juice, pie or wine. In addition, grapevines can be ornamental and valuable as shade or screen plants in the home landscape when trained on a trellis or arbor (Figure 1). A...

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