About Seedless Watermelon

How is Seedless Watermelon grown?

Seedless Watermelons are created by cross-pollinating two varieties of watermelon together. To accomplish this, growers plant seeded and seedless plants next to one another and, with the help of pollen carrying bees, they pollinate seedless plants to produce "seedless" watermelons. 

Watermelons take 70-80 days to grow.  As the fruit begins to grow to its full size, the plant leaves cannot always fully cover the Seedless Watermelon and sometimes it can get sunburnt just like us humans! And, like a sunscreen for humans, applications of a sunscreen product to the skin can help to prevent the Seedless Watermelons from sunburn. 

Where is it grown?

The main growing regions for Seedless Watermelon in Australia are the NT,  Central and Western QLD and rural NSW although all you need is plenty of sunshine, heat and water to grow a Seedless Watermelon!

Did you know?

Watermelon's official name is Citrullus lanatus of the botanical family Cucurbitaceae and it is a vegetable! It is related to cucumbers, pumpkins and squash. 

In a Seedless Watermelon those small white pips are called "edibles" and are like the seeds in a cucumber.

Early explorers used watermelons as canteens to carry around their precious water supplies.

The first recorded watermelon harvest occurred nearly 5,000 years ago in Egypt.