# 20260405

"ELI5: How are seedless fruits planted?" ([reddit](https://www.reddit.com/r/explainlikeimfive/comments/1sd2t08/eli5_how_are_seedless_fruits_planted/))

"You have to take cuttings of the plant that originally produced them and plant those in the ground. Those original plants were cultivated through many generations of selective breeding until they got good ones with no seeds. Each new plant is essentially a clone of the original, and that's also why if some disease pops up that threatens the plant, the entire strain of that plant is at risk, as with what has happened to bananas in the past."

"Ohh, so seedlessness is like a mutation that we try to preserve through generations?"

"Technically, since they are all clones, it's a single generation that is being kept alive perpetually."