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I'll be trying these.
Is there an update? I'm waiting for the next phase! 🙂 As soon as I watched this I started mine. I have a few roots coming underneath, but nothing like a sprout yet. Show us your progress! Thanks.
Also, when should I let them "see the light"?
thank you for this information
i planted sweet potato ground and container but they did not produce or multiply. the original size just increased in size very huge. there were leaves a lot of leaves. I added the liquid fish fertilizer that is high in nutrients for the roots.
what could be the reason for not bearing more root crops?
appreciate for any suggestions
Excellent video. Thank you!
Is there a follow up video to this one?
I got my st potatoes at whole I bought 3 purple two white and two orange and have slips and slips and slips and slips. I got 4and 5 out of one long sprout and they did sprout. I clipped just above a leaf a. They all sprouted. We will see how they do. I used the big plastic tubes I buy salad greens. I paint the outside so no algee develops. I am in the Phoenix area and we. Can plant until June. So I ame still grow more slips.
Hi! I’m new to your channel and love it to so far. I’m trying to grow sweet potatoes slips using your video as a guide but I’ve noticed that after a couple of weeks the sweet potatoes is starting to grow some mold. Any tips/help?
Thank you
There is no need for sprouting and rooting to be done separately, just bury the tubers deep enough in the sprouting medium ( I use wood chips myself since they hold moisture well like sawdust, but the larger size of wood chips allows for more in the root zone) and they will sprout roots as they push up through the medium. I will bury them in about three or four inches of medium, and by the time they have three or four inches of green growth above the surface they can be turned out and severed from the tuber and will be ready to plant as is. Leave a few of the smallest slips on the tuber and repot and it will likely sprout several more as they grow to size. Managed well this method can produce a dozen or more slips from a small tuber.
Are there holes in the bottom of your dollar store containers?
Do the bins need to be dark, not clear?
Wonderful lesson! Thank you!
I did this for the first time this year, after watching this video of yours. I have several sprouts! So exciting!
I'm ready for your next video. I'm not sure how to cut the slips from the sweet potatoes. And I'd like to see what yours look like in the water.
is this the same as ornamental sweet potato vine ?
I'm growing my sweet potatoe slips from the left over that I harvested last year. Hoping they will be big enough on time. Do you, or anyone else reading this, know if sweet potatoe can handle fresh/ wet manure? I'm looking for a crop to fill up a space in my community garden, which combines with potatoes.
I finally got my sweet potatoes to sprout but they aren't looking like slips I've seen. They are masses of deep red shoots growing out of both ends and some even growing out of the sides of the potatoes. What is going on with them? Will these deep red sprouts turn into slips in time? Thanks.
17 minutes of BS, just get to the point B.
You shouldn't have to root the slips. They are basically weeds. Just pull them off the tuber and shove them in the soil.
Any update on the sweet potato slips???
Time to give an update
Another website said to cover and put in a sunny area. My containers are see through. I got a lot of slips doing that
Did you make a followup video? I put a sweet potato in soil and I have slips that grw but I'm not sure what to do next. It seems that there are roots growing from the sweet potato. Just not sure what to do next. NEED HELP, PLEASE
Hey Luke, i didnt see if you let folks know that sweet potatoes tend to regrow in the same area from the year before if all the roots arent removed. So plant them where you want to keep planting them. Advice from my 73 year old garden savey mother.
If you don’t want to buy organic sweet potatoes just buy the conventional ones and wash them really good with soap and water when you get home. I do that and then just leave them out on the counter and wait for the little leaves to sprout. No need even to put in dirt or water. I live in south Texas though and our house is always around 77 or 78 degrees and in summer we keep the thermostat on 80 so maybe they grow without even having to do anything to them because it is always warm but I think even in cooler areas just washing the potatoes will remove the inhibitor spray that they use to keep the potatoes from sprouting.
Question… I did not plant my slips deep enough in my pots. Can I pull them out of the pot currently in 5 gallon pots (planted in half the container), put more soil in the pot and put the growing plants back in the additional soil inside the pot. Let me know please. Zone 8, California
Came to look for an update and can't find one. Am I missing your video?
Update?