sweet potato

[cambourne7]

Hi All,

Just found 2 sweet potatoes in the bottom of my potato bag which i had forgotten about and they have got the kind of growths on i would expect from seeing potatoes chitted but there white i have popped them onto the windowsill but wondered what might happen if i planted them?

Cam

[cambourne7]

[saddad]

It's better to cut the slips off and root in water... the tuber will rot and spread into the plant if you treat it like a real potato...  :-\

[cambourne7]

so if i just stick the potato in a cup of water and let it root would that do the trick? Or do i need to cut the bits of potato out?

[saddad]

I've never done it myself... but when I've seen pictures the tuber is suspended half in the water... near the shoot and once roots start it is cut off with a small sliver of the tuber...  :-X

[cambourne7]

cool will do that tonight :)