Water in Watermelons

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they used to do this and it was changed exactly so this wasn't as easy.

iirc there is a hyperaquicity gene for Lettuce that does this instead.

Yes, lettuce has a hyperaquacity gene that adds water as a reagent, scaling with potency like any normal reagent, and it can be spliced into other plants as usual. This is how people make water + potassium tomatoes that can easily send people into critical and kill them with very limited counterplay - in fact, I saw someone doing this the other day. Seethers can become more powerful once their potency is high enough (if I am correct, having more than 100u of Welding Fuel ignited in a one tile space creates a moderate explosion, which you can get if the seethers are potent enough), but water + potassium tomatoes are infinitely more accessible and have much less collateral damage, being far less likely to harm the thrower by virtue of not creating a massive fireball. Were this combo used more often, then I'm pretty sure that potassium + water explosions would be nerfed.

On a more positive note, this gene can be used for various other more constructive things, like making plants that contain space cleaner or Saline-Glucose solution, as being crucial for a splice that produces space drugs. So it's not all bad.