Do you prefer seeded or seedless watermelons ?

IMO...the seeded ones are the sweetest. And I don't mind them.

[quote] “A seedless watermelon is a sterile hybrid which is created by crossing male pollen for a watermelon, containing 22 chromosomes per cell, with a female watermelon flower with 44 chromosomes per cell. When this seeded fruit matures, the small, white seed coats inside contain 33 chromosomes, rendering it sterile and incapable of producing seeds. This is similar to the mule, produced by naturally crossing a horse with a donkey. This process does not involve genetic modification.” [/quote]

Seeded.

Seedless watermelons have all the flavor of moist styrofoam. The flavor and sweetness have been bred out of them. Due to the lack of mature seeds, the melon wont get big. T the seed pouch (sac) in most melons is surrounded by "goop" (non-technical term) that helps the seeds get ready to grow. Since the "seeds" in a seedless melon never mature, this sac isn't formed and the melon is smaller.

I feel sorry for people who only know seedless watermelons and think that's how watermelons are supposed to taste. The best place to find good, sweet seeded melons (outside of growing your own) is at a farmers market. They should have a hollow thunk when tapped, and the skin shouldn't give when rubbed.

Seeded watermelons actually had flavor, none of the stores here seem to even carry them anymore though.

I like the big ones with seeds