Don't BUY Sweet Potato Plants!
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- Опубликовано: 18 окт 2024
- Sweet Potato plants are too expensive to buy - John explains how to create your own plants from a tuber. Also an update on Tomato cuttings.
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I have grown sweet potatoes in the Urals/Western Siberia in Russia, 200 km north of Yekaterinburg. The biggest tuber was about 200 mm and fairly thin. Total crop was enough for a few family meals. The slips were grown in water with some Seasol and Charlie Carp which I took to Russia with a sweet potato that I had grown in Queensland. Everything was declared to Customs and FSB. The Customs officer looked up everything online, looked at me strangely and I said to him, "Yes, I know I am crazy!"
The tuber was kept in the kitchen and slips were grown. They were then rooted in water with some Seasol and Charlie Carp, then transplanted to pots and grown on a sunny windowsill. After frosts had stopped the plants were planted in a row under black plastic, and covered with a small plastic hoop row. I ate some leaves in a salad, but apparently they are an acquired taste, and no-one else had acquired that taste!
The Summer growing season is not long enough for good tuber growth, but I grew enough tubers to prove to my family that sweet potatoes are nice food. Now if someone can find a short day length Oka, they will have my eternal gratitude.
Great video. My sweet potatoes sprouted/started to chit after sitting on my kitchen counter for a few months. Put them into potting soil sideways in the house and got lots of vines. Such a cool project to start in late winter, early spring. Shared with neighbors.
Thank you for this video. I have my potato already with slips on it but wasn't sure if I should pot it first then set it in soil. You've answered that question for me. Thanks from Montreal Canada. Hopefully I will get some tubers to eat in 3-4 months.
So glad I ran across this video. Just bought sweet potato for planting and was going to wait for them the sprout. Thank you for the information. Will get them in water right away. I also am trying straw bales this year in the greenhouse.
The bottom of my kitchen pantry must be the right conditions to sprout, because that’s what it did and is now growing a large plant in my back garden.
I just put a layer of potting mix in a plastic basin, shove a whole bunch of sweet-potatos on their sides and cover with more potting mix. Within a few weeks you have shoots that you can root in water. The container keeps producing slips for ages
Hello John, I live down under, but only just in East Java, Indonesia. I used your method of planting the tubers in soil and the slips came very quickly. Interestingly I used both purple and cream tubers. Purple tubers produced slips quickly and of good quality. Cream tubers produced slips but slowly and not of such good quality. I have tried putting in water previously, but it took for ever. Thank you for a really useful tip. Regards John
Interesting - glad to hear you had success.
Thank you for the tips! I have had a sweet potato half submerged in a cup of water on a window sill for at least a month now, and nothing. I will flip it over and see if I get better results.
Very useful to know that there is an up and down on the sweet potatoes. Learn something every day
Thanks mate love all the advice about growing in a cooler climate
This is a great video. I tried growing sweet potatoes for the first time this year, I didn’t have any success. I’m hoping you can help me, as I want to try again next year. I cannot grow in my ground as where I live is mostly rocks. So I grow in 25 gallon “grow bags”, 4x8 raised beds or 25 gallon pots. Therefore I grew them in grow bags. In case you don’t know, grow bags are fabric pots.
When I went to harvest them, they were only about the size of a person’s finger. This was after 4 months of growing. My QUESTIONS are: 1) did I pick them to soon, 2) do they need a certain temperature range in which to grow in, and 3) do they take a lot of water? I live in zone 5 of the United States and last year we had an extremely warm to hot summer. Above average temperatures for the whole growing season. I tried to keep the fabric pots watered, but I didn’t know how wet I should keep the soil. Does the soil need to be kept evenly moist, or does it need to be deeply watered and then allowed to dry in between watering? I had the pots mulched as a means of trying to prevent them from drying out. I was also wondering if they need to be fertilized? I’m trying to figure out what I need to do to get a better result next year and your assistance would be greatly appreciated! The tubers were long enough, they just didn’t fill out. I look forward to hearing from you.
Haven't tried them in grow bags myself, so can't be specific. But I can say this: (1) I usually dig about 6 months after planting. (2) I usually get the best "fill out" of tubers if I plant them on a hole 8-12" deep, 6-8" wide that has been filled with compost. Hope this helps.
Homesteading DownUnder it did and didn’t. Thank you for replying. I will plant them next spring as soon as the ground can be worked and cover them so they don’t get killed by frost. That will give me six months.
Please address my third question about watering. Does the soil need to be kept evenly moist or is it ok to let it dry out a bit and then water deeply?
I think I also asked about whether I needed to fertilize throughout the season? I do compost from my own compost which is built from kitchen scraps, leaves from the fall, chicken coop clean out, grass from mowing and garden waste. I’m thinking that my compost should have plenty of nutrients, but if sweet potatoes are heavy feeders and my compost isn’t enough because of having to water more than is needed for in ground plantings and maybe the nutrients are getting washed out? I look forward to reading your reply.
If you’re not sure which side is which, just place it horizontally in a tray with some water so that the tuber is half-way submerged. Or plant the tuber horizontally only half way in the soil. The slips and roots will sort themselves out and you don’t have to stress about getting the orientation right. I prefer the latter method in soil. The slips are stronger and I don’t need to change out the water every few days.
Amelia Rose Hi Amelia, you sound like an experienced sweet potato grower. I’m hoping you can help me. I tried growing sweet potatoes for the very first time. I grew them in grow bags. I hope you know what that is. In case you don’t, they are fabric bags. Next year I plan on trying to grow them in my raised beds. When I went to harvest them, they were only about the size of a person’s finger. This was after 4 months of growing. My questions are: 1) did I try to pick them to soon, 2) do they need a certain temperature range in which to grow in, and 3) do they take a lot of water? I live in zone five of the United States and last year we had an extremely warm to hot summer. Above average temperatures for the whole growing season. I tried to keep the fabric pots watered, but I didn’t know how wet I should keep the soil. Does the soil need to be kept evenly moist, or does it need to be deeply watered and then allowed to dry in between watering? I was also wondering if they need to be fertilized? I’m trying to figure out what I need to do to get a better result next year and your assistance would be greatly appreciated! I look forward to hearing from you.
I learned not to give up on tomato plants two years ago. Cutworms severed several plants at ground level, so I trimmed off the lower leaves, stuck them back in the ground, watered them, and later enjoyed lots of fruit from them. They really weren't even behind the other plants by fruiting time.
Thank you for the tip! We will try to grow sweet potato next spring, and this is an excellent explanation of how to do it because we have a bit cold climate in the Black Forest, southwest Germany. We will try outside, tomatoes are going in our greenhouses :)
Can't make some space inside for them? They would have a much better chance!
@@homesteading That said, I believe we will make space for them :) But we will also try outside, just to see. This summer was very dry and hot!
can you do that with apple trees? I have two antique apples i my backyard and I have some 5-7 foot branches coming out of thE
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My sweet potatoes wasn't sending off slips one even start to rot so I flipped it over .a month later . I figured it might give me slips if I put on a heating pad for seedlings . About a week later I got slips . The one I flipped turned out to be upside down but now loaded . All sweet potatoes are giving me slips now .
thank you just planted sweet potato slips in my straw bale garden
Have you grown sweet potatoes in straw bale before?
Thanks for sharing your idea's. I live in London can I grow in summer.? and how long does it take to produce potatoes?
Maybe someone local can help you.
Big hello from north east Tasmania! I have a hothouse too, and am always eager for any tips you have!
Oh yes! ! You are in Tassie too!
At last. At last!!
Is it advisable to mix coco peat through potting mix to container grow sweet potato for a less compacting medium?
Probably would be a good idea.
I have done this, but don't necessarily expect to get the same sweet potato variety that you plant. Special varieties revert to the original variety.
I have been doing this for a couple years and nothing has changed. I don't understand why it would change because it is the same genetic material....no mixing possible like in a seed.
It was the purple sweet potato we tried which I think is a hybrid
Just like normal potatoes, the variety will only change if you grow them from seed. When you clone plants like this you'll get identical varieties. If you have a look around on RUclips you can see many people having difficulties with the purple varieties, which seem to come out mostly white unless you have exactly the conditions the plants need. Perhaps this is what happened in your case - it was the same variety but it looked different due to different growing conditions than the original had.
Dear Sir, I have five sweet potatoes that where left over from Thanksgiving in November, they have sprouted on their own without any attention from me, however, I have taken some compassion on them and have placed them in a container with water in front of my kitchen window; I was hoping that once they started to birth green leaves they would take their place in a more natural habituate, like in a plot all of their own. After watching videos on S.P. I don't think that I want to grow them after all since I have seen the low ground foliage they produce, I live in the American Southwest, which could be an ideal climate for them, since the weather is hot and humid in the summer. The problem here in this area is that we have 5 varieties of venomous snakes of which I have a dreadful fear and a healthy repulsive dislike. Can S.P. be planted in containers and can the vines be controlled or trimed so as they don't over run the containers thus provide a breeding place for these creatures? Thank you in advance for enlightening me with your kind expertise.
Why would that happen since it wouldn't grow from seed..please explain, because a slip would normally be a perfect clone..
Tomato cuttings? Will search it out.....thank you....
How is the bottle watering system you did with your tomatoes going John?
It's going well so far. But we have also had good rain. The dvantage seems to be less weeds, but it is slow to fill the bottles!
It's going well so far. But we have also had good rain. The dvantage seems to be less weeds, but it is slow to fill the bottles!
It's going well so far. But we have also had good rain. The dvantage seems to be less weeds, but it is slow to fill the bottles!
Here's a hint. Even if you get one put in the water upside down, they will still produce roots and slips. Just sayin'. But the FAR better way to produce slips is just to place the tubers in a shallow tray, half buried in potting soil, half exposed to the air on their side. Keep the potting soil moist but not soaking wet. You will get more slips faster than the water method.
Excellent tutorial for Northern Tassie. Cheers :)
Which month is best to plant
Depends where you live! Here in Tasmania, I generally plant in November, which is late spring.
Where about you in Tasmania?
Central North West Coast.
In the former USA, we always plant after you are certain the last frost of the year has passed.
What does "Irish" potato mean? Potatoes originally came from South America. Ireland has nothing to do with it.
My sweet potatoes never ever grow slips.
Ever.
Irish potato ... ! I never buy sweet potato's
Yes, I know they not really "Irish" but come from South America...just used that name to differentiate then from Sweet Potatoes. It's like Kiwi fruit, which are not originally from NZ!