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Sweet potatoes?
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Posted by amccour (My Page) on Mon, Oct 12, 09 at 22:06
| I got a sweet potato from the local grocery store a few months ago and forgot to eat it, as I'm often wont to do. Anyway, so right now it's got a couple vines on it, some leaves... overall looking pretty nice, though it's not growing as fast as it was outside.
However, I haven't actually planted it yet. I just... have a leafy Ipomoea batatas tuber sitting on my desk.
HOW do I plant it? Do I NEED to detach the slips? Can I just bury the tuber as a whole? And if I can plant the whole tuber, can I only bury like half of it and get some sort of caudex thing going on?
Also, I think a part of the tuber started to rot or dry out while it was still in the plastic wrap in the pantry. It's not spread particularly far, but if I need to plant the entire tuber, can I just cut that part off first or something? |
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RE: Sweet potatoes?
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Hi you should cut off any part that is soft or rotting...
then you can just plant it....in a good size pot as this kind of potato will grow new tubers...if it were summer I would say just plant it outside in the garden and you will have all kinds of tubers come fall....linda |
RE: Sweet potatoes?
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| Plant what remains of the root? Okay. After cutting off the soft part should I let it callous at all? |
RE: Sweet potatoes?
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Hi no you don't have to let it callous...
this is a vegetable...but people do grow it for the vine..
and there is other types that are used in pot plantings for the summer...but they also grow small tubers..
have fun....linda |
RE: Sweet potatoes?
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| I start rooting my sweet potatoes in a container of water in the winter then come spring, I pull a few plants or they call them slips, from the potatoes, and plant them in the ground for a crop in the fall. I find it amazing you can do that to a vegetable and it is so forgiving, plus it keeps growing longer roots and getting pretty shoots from the original tater |
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