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| I am growing a sweet potato for the first time. I grew it from a slip of a store bought potato. Then I just found out you should grow them from certified seed potatoes. Will it taste ok? |
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| Should be fine. Not sure where you heard about the certified potato thing. Many people buy sweet potatoes from the supermarket and grow their own slips. If you only planted one slip you might have a small harvest though. The 2 times I grew them it was from ordinary store bought sweet potatoes, and I got about 4 lbs per slip. They tasted awesome! |
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| I read it somewhere on the web. So glad it will be ok this way. I don't eat alot of them. I just did it because I saw how easy they grew for my friend. Thanks for the info! I always like to try growing new plants. |
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- Posted by farmerdill (My Page) on Sat, Aug 24, 13 at 20:03
| You were thinking of Irish potatoes. Certified sweet potaoes are not generally available. Most folks buy plants from a certified grower. Seed stock is usually availble only in commercial quantities. Store bought potatoes work well for a few dozen plants of a commercial variety like Beauregard. |
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- Posted by yukkuri_kame Sunset 19 / USDA 9 (My Page) on Sun, Aug 25, 13 at 0:23
| Yes, farmerdill has it. Certified seed potatoes are for ordinary potatoes, not sweet potatoes. It's because of various diseases which tomatoes and potatoes are both susceptible to. Sweet potatoes are grown from slips. I've been growing japanese sweet potatoes for years using slips that grew from storebought tubers. Conventionally grown tubers are often treated with sprout inhibitors, so organic works better, but I've started with conventional tubers as well - just a lower success rate. Any section of sweet potato vine will do, 6 inches or so, stuck in the soil. One slip will not produce a huge crop, but at least you'll have tubers to start lots of slips for next year. |
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| This one had a 15" vine on it. Good to know, tho. I'd really like to grow yams instead. Someone told me they were the same thing, but I just read that they are a wetter kind of veggie than the sweet potato. I don't know where to buy yams. |
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| with sweet potatoes no need for certified, just do as you did. see our presentation for ideas len |
Here is a link that might be useful: lens growing sweet 'taters and pineapples
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- Posted by MaryAnn1950 none (My Page) on Fri, Jun 20, 14 at 11:40
| Len, thanks I am going to try a sweet potato in my SFG. I think I have until the end of June to get them in the ground (zone9) but I may fudge it a bit. Mary Ann |
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