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Produce => Edible Plants => Topic started by: cambourne7 on May 14, 2012, 18:33:38

Title: sweet potato
Post by: cambourne7 on May 14, 2012, 18:33:38
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
Title: Re: sweet potato
Post by: saddad on May 14, 2012, 18:58:51
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...  :-\
Title: Re: sweet potato
Post by: cambourne7 on May 14, 2012, 19:03:55
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?
Title: Re: sweet potato
Post by: saddad on May 14, 2012, 19:39:20
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
Title: Re: sweet potato
Post by: cambourne7 on May 14, 2012, 20:35:40
cool will do that tonight :)