Walter Reeves: Seedling watermelons may not taste like you expect

Q: Will the volunteer watermelon seedlings that came up where one of last year’s amazing melons split and rotted produce watermelons that are that sweet and juicy? Carol Zweig, Fayetteville A: Most grocery store watermelons are hybrids, grown from seeds that came from controlled pollination using superior watermelon parents. Your seedling, volunteer watermelons come from uncontrolled pollination. True, the pollen that produced these seeds came from superior sweet melons nearby, but there is no guarantee that these seeds will have the superior traits from their superior parents. They might get...