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by himinlomax 2070 days ago
First, seedless grapes do occasionally have seeds.

Second, if they didn't, that would be entirely pointless.

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Seed traces in seedless grapes are almost always unviable.

Us grape growers propagate these vines from clones. Breeders who work with seedless grapes have some horomonal techniques that can get a vine to produce some % of potentially viable seeds. Or one parent in the cross is a seeded variety and the seedless grape is just the pollen source.

Or micropropagation.