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.
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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
Awesome
Thanks a lot that’s very helpful!
Wow that was very helpful thank you
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.