Ethan010
Active Member
Well , before i start my thread , let's take a quick look at my sweet potatoes .
Here we go
1. Get a firm healthy sweet potato. If the sweet potato is starting to sprout, you have a head start.
Assume that most grocery store sweet potatoes are treated with an anti-sprouting chemical. Look for organic sweet potatoes or get from a gardening friend. My sweet potatoes came from my mom and a friend. I don't know what variety they are but both of them had excellent sweet potato crops last year and they kept very well all winter. Sounds like traits I want to encourage!
2. Place the sweet potato in a jar of water. You want to submerse most of the sweet potato while allowing a couple inches above water. One of my sweet potatoes was so large it couldn't fit well in the jar. Change the water occasionally to keep from molding. Place in sunlight. Soon the sweet potato will send out sprouts, or slips.
3. When the sprouts are four to five inches long, pull them off the sweet potato. The sweet potato will grow more sprouts.
4. Place the sprouts in water. You can place a bunch of sprouts in the same jar. They will quickly grow roots.
While sweet potatoes can't be planted too early because they hate cold weather, they also can't be planted too late. My aunt, who has grown sweet potatoes to sell for years, says to plant on July 4 at the very latest in our area of PA. Sweet potatoes need several months of growing time before the first frost to form tubers. I have found that the beginning of March is a good time to start my plants.
Basically , i am not a professional expert about growing , but i love growing and love the plants too. So maybe i explain not very super quite clear and something whatever, but i'd love to answer queations u ask.
Here we go
1. Get a firm healthy sweet potato. If the sweet potato is starting to sprout, you have a head start.
Assume that most grocery store sweet potatoes are treated with an anti-sprouting chemical. Look for organic sweet potatoes or get from a gardening friend. My sweet potatoes came from my mom and a friend. I don't know what variety they are but both of them had excellent sweet potato crops last year and they kept very well all winter. Sounds like traits I want to encourage!
2. Place the sweet potato in a jar of water. You want to submerse most of the sweet potato while allowing a couple inches above water. One of my sweet potatoes was so large it couldn't fit well in the jar. Change the water occasionally to keep from molding. Place in sunlight. Soon the sweet potato will send out sprouts, or slips.
3. When the sprouts are four to five inches long, pull them off the sweet potato. The sweet potato will grow more sprouts.
4. Place the sprouts in water. You can place a bunch of sprouts in the same jar. They will quickly grow roots.
While sweet potatoes can't be planted too early because they hate cold weather, they also can't be planted too late. My aunt, who has grown sweet potatoes to sell for years, says to plant on July 4 at the very latest in our area of PA. Sweet potatoes need several months of growing time before the first frost to form tubers. I have found that the beginning of March is a good time to start my plants.
Basically , i am not a professional expert about growing , but i love growing and love the plants too. So maybe i explain not very super quite clear and something whatever, but i'd love to answer queations u ask.
