That seed will produce the same cultivar when grown the following season. Because hybrids bring greater revenue from seed sales, most commercially sold cultivars are hybrids and not inbreds. Nonfertilized fruits are seedless. Some field-grown cultivars are parthenocarpic. However, these cultivars usually are not seedless because flowers are often pollinated by wild bees.
Pistillate flowers are female flowers that produce fruit.
Monoecious cultivars are used as pollen sources or pollenizers for the predominantly gynoecious cultivars to ensure that adequate pollination occurs, resulting in good fruit set and well-formed fruit. Many seed companies have developed their own monoecious pollenizers to blend with certain cultivars although Sumter and Poinsett 76 cultivars are often used. A good pollenizer should have plenty of male flowers to provide sufficient pollen for adequate pollination, have male flowers that open before the female flowers on the predominantly gynoecious cultivar open, and yield well and produce fruit similar in quality to the predominantly gynoecious cultivar. The seed label should indicate how much and what pollenizer seed is blended with the seed of the predominantly gynoecious cultivar. Determinate plant types have less vine growth, more concentrated fruit set, and fruit produced nearer to the base of the plant than indeterminate types.