How to GROW SWEET POTATOES from a grocery store potato!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 ส.ค. 2024
- Spring is coming soon and its time to get sweet potato slips started!
Sweet potatoes are not the same as Irish or White Potatoes.
They grow from slips that form from the original sweet potatoes. These slips are the beginnings of sweet potato vines.
Sweet potato vines can reach 10-15ft long and are a beautiful vine for mid to late summer trellis'!
Each slip once rooted can produce 5-10 sweet potatoes in my experience.
Each grocery store sweet potato can produce round after round of slips!
So, endless sweet potatoes!
Sweet potatoes need 100-120 days to mature and require WARM soil temps.
So they are the perfect root crop to grow all summer in the southern states!
They only require about 8" deep of well draining soil and the vines can act as a living mulch in the dead heat of our Texas summers.
Consider growing sweet potatoes this spring/summer to increase the calorie crop variety in your garden!
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This was the most informative video on sweet potatoes and the slips! Thank you!!!
Get a cardboard container like a quart milk box, put soil in it, bury the potato the long shallow way..
All the slips will grow long the entire length of the potato, and as a bonus, all the slips will be individually rooted already, taking 2 weeks off your time + giving you 4x as many slips.
Hope this creator tries it, and then shares this advice.
@@jonslg240yea gives more slips and faster, but also creates some overcrowding meaning you might get less yield overall.
You can also sprout sweet potatoes longways indoors
TY, it's the 1st I watched! With your comment, I know I don't need to look further!!!
Did you know that the sweet potato skins can grow slips after you peal it away from the potatoes?
If you left the skins in a moist, not wet place, they will start to bud and then you could get slips to plant.
That way, you could eat your potatoes and and get slips to grow from the same potato.
Very cool!
I love sweet potatoes. They're so resilient. I am having a hell of a time trying to start blackberries, But sweet potatoes, I don't even try to grow em and they start growing!!!
Yes and the sweet potato leaves make the best eating greens.
I know sweet potatoes aren't like white/Russet. However, to educate myself, are they non toxic?!
@@amyfreeze1808 oh no not toxic like russets. I satisfied my curiosity by thoroughly researching. I finally found one video harvesting sweet potato leaves. Asian stores actually sell them. So I've been growing and eating them for about 2 years now. Google the benefits of sweet potato leaves, I was amazed.
Holy moly, I did not now this is how you grow sweet potato. Thanks. Im going to do this with my daughter, I bet she will love it.
Can't believe it I was searching TH-cam but this explains it the best and in a short time. Thank you ❗❗❗🥔🍠
I kept my slim sweet potatoes in a bag because there was no meat on them. Forgot about them until a year later. Opened the bag up and the things had sprouted without water. Threw them in my garden and they are doing fine. Crazy.
You can also do this when the temperature is above 50 F.
Cut off two ends of sweet potatoes about 2” (eat the middle part).
Plant these cutting in direct soil cut sides down. Will sprout shoots in a few days.
For quicker method, go to Asian market, buy sweet potatoes leaves.
Eat the leaves and tender shoots. Plant the rest in water jar. Will start to grow roots in 5-7 days. Plant them outside.
Yes! I have a whole counter top with jars filled with slips!
So helpful!! ❤
I just did one today. I hope i didn't do it backward because both her ends are weird looking lol.
Thanks! My sweet potato in water just started it’s first roots and I wasn’t sure what the next step was. So helpful to know what I’m looking for. 🎉
cleanest , pure explanation of necessity to the grow.. THANK YOU!
Thank you!!!! Just what i needed. My slips from cut potatoes have grown well, but I want sure if I could just use water to encourage you growth ❤️
Thank you so much 🌿 🍠
I love how practical all your tips are.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you, for getting right to the "how to point" with your instructions. I appreciate it so much. I attempted to watch several youtube videos and the blabbed on to the point I just gave them a thumps down and finally found you. Thumbs up and subscribe to you, I subscribe to very few.
appreciate it just got one of these bad boys from the dollar general and got worried I wasted my money. appreciate it!
This was very efficient, thank you!
I have 2 that have grown those without being in water... so I put one in water today. We gonna seee
THANK YOU 😊
Thanks 👍 😊
Awesome! Thank you!
Thank you
Thank you👌🏽
A fantastically informative short, thank you! Would you recommend doing anything with the sweet potato that has roots? Thanks!
Adding it to compost!
@@fromthegardenchannel I actually just kept it in the water & it's growing more shoots! Thanks though :)
@@BlueSkySanctuaryBaja yes it will continue to grow shoots until it eventually rots (which may take awhile) but if you're trying to keep planting those shoots and you get a frost each year then you are running out of time to get a successful harvest. But the shoots are tasty none the less.
@@fromthegardenchannel Thanks again! I'm in Mexico, so I'm good to go ;)
Thanks
Dude thank you so much, I've been wondering when to start 😭
You're welcome!
@@fromthegardenchannel
Please try to do it fat side down. The slips root while they grow. 1 step instead of 2. Takes half the time. :-)
I’m growing one indoors right now
TY! Was looking for container growing. Can i plant these slips in a large 5 gal container? Need to find how to prep the container for drainage.
Q? Will those slips over crowd a 5 gal container? Or do i need a 2nd tator? TY if you see this!
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Ok so I tried this/ too much water- it got mushy😳- I read Comment about just leave in counter so I’m gonna try that!
I have a plant of purple vine sweet potatoes.
Can I apply this Method on it?
Yes, of course. Just try to do it fat end down instead. This way the slips root while they grow. 1 step instead of 2. Takes half the time. :-)
@@goodcitizen3780 Thanks, for your kind suggestion.
How often should I water the slips after I plant them in the soil
Does it have to be the whole potato?? Or can I cut off the end and use that?? 2" inch piece??
But which side is "pointy side down"? Both ends are pointy! 🤣
Nice
Which side on water please?
Did you say it's good for enlarged prostates?
I have roots but no slips yet ,
looking for advice , should i wait for slips ? what would be next move
Some people pierce the root, some don’t. 🧐 Do you need to pierce it with sticks? What’s the function of it?
It just keeps the potato from dropping too far into the water. Unless she has an alternate purpose, that's why it's done!
Why are my roots and sprout coming out from the bottom 😮. Will it still work?
How long until they produce?
at what point in the summer is too late to do this? I'm in Georgia (Zone 9)
It depends on the variety but time is of the essence.
Try doing the same thing but fat end down. That will save you a lot of time because the slips will root as they grow so you don't waste time growing them and then rooting them. Instead it'll happen all at once.
How long can you hold sweet potato slips in water
I planted the whole thing and I’m pulling the slips off and planting them individually- will that work
Yes I show that in this video I believe but this time of year is perfect to do it like that!
If you want to grow in grow bags or containers. How many slips per...bag? (Noobie😊)
Depends on the size of the container. 1 per 5 gallons of size!
Can you be my sweet potato🕺
Can they be store bought first ?
yes
Yes and try doing it fat side down. The slips root while they grow. 1 step instead of 2. Takes half the time. :-)
My last frost date is May 31
Bro stg its mid may still getting frosts :(((
If there’s a couple days in the forties or won’t die right? Or can there not be a few nights on the forties?
They will slow down but won't die off until a real frost!
@@fromthegardenchanneloh ok thank you!
I’ve planted some white and sweet potatoes in an d laundry basket with mulch on the bottom and dispersed thru out. I saved leaves , twigs, ash(from fire place), and planting soil with food--nice thick soil in between layers (potatoes like the warmth) plants are on my upper deck and I cover them with clear plastic over night because North Georgia mountains have crazy weather and I’ve got potatoes growing everywhere the vine’s come thru the holes. Water as needed..keep moist.❤😂😮👀🙏🏽👏🏼👍😮❤
Can i cut it in half or do this whole? Ty for anyones time.
Yes you can cut your potatoes to leave only one sprout per piece but make sure to let them dry out for a few days before planting. This is call chitting
You can cut it but it rots faster
No doubt the sweet potato meister merchants are trembling in their hot houses with fear for the massive sweet potato price reductions they foresee on horizon. And those taters will need to be perfect bigguns too !😊😊😅😅