OMG Thank you. I’ve been looking all Over for data. I didn’t even know sweet potatoes flowered. Now I’m interested in collecting seeds and cross pollination
Thanks for all the information, Travis! I have a 5'x5' grow tent with 6 very healthy plants in it and am blooming like crazytown lately, but not a one I've tried to pollinate has made seed. They just bloom, close up, and fall off. Mind you I was trying to cross each flower to itself via q-tip, so maybe they didn't like that. I just recently started removing one flower and rubbing its anthers on a bunch of flowers' stigmas but I wasn't aware until now that they prefer diversity, so I wasn't paying any attention to who belonged to which vine. I'm going to try to be a little more careful about that from now on and try to get some seed going between different plants.
Thankyou I just dont want my different varieties of sweet potato to cross with each other as I especially bought different ones. I wasn't sure can I plant them together or if I have to keep them separate. Looks like they can cross but maybe not too easily?
I live in the north. I am interested in hybridizing sweet potatoes with their cold-hardier ipomoea cousins that are also tuber-producing: Ipomoea pandurata & Ipomoea leptophylla. Have you ever attempted such crosses, know if this has been attempted before, or know if anyone else is currently working on this? Thank you.
OMG
Thank you. I’ve been looking all
Over for data. I didn’t even know sweet potatoes flowered. Now I’m interested in collecting seeds and cross pollination
Wow that was very helpful thank you
Thanks a lot that’s very helpful!
Awesome
Thanks for all the information, Travis! I have a 5'x5' grow tent with 6 very healthy plants in it and am blooming like crazytown lately, but not a one I've tried to pollinate has made seed. They just bloom, close up, and fall off. Mind you I was trying to cross each flower to itself via q-tip, so maybe they didn't like that. I just recently started removing one flower and rubbing its anthers on a bunch of flowers' stigmas but I wasn't aware until now that they prefer diversity, so I wasn't paying any attention to who belonged to which vine. I'm going to try to be a little more careful about that from now on and try to get some seed going between different plants.
Yes a lot of the varieties are pretty self-incompatible, but unfortunately, the success rate is not as high in sweet potato as in a lot of crops 😭
Thankyou I just dont want my different varieties of sweet potato to cross with each other as I especially bought different ones. I wasn't sure can I plant them together or if I have to keep them separate. Looks like they can cross but maybe not too easily?
I live in the north. I am interested in hybridizing sweet potatoes with their cold-hardier ipomoea cousins that are also tuber-producing: Ipomoea pandurata & Ipomoea leptophylla. Have you ever attempted such crosses, know if this has been attempted before, or know if anyone else is currently working on this? Thank you.