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I planted 4 sweet potatoes - kindly donated by Debster - at least 4 weeks ago, I can't remember the date and nothing has come up yet.  Last night I noticed a little plant where I planted one of them.  Can anyone tell me if this is a sweet potato plant?  Sorry for the poor quality of the pic as my mobile is crap at taking closeups as it doesn't have a zoom on it!!  If needs be I can take some more this evening with my pentax and post tomorrow.
Julie

possibly, julie..I'll take some pics of mine tomorrow and we'll compare notes  ;D

Quote from: manicscousers on July 10, 2010, 20:32:32
possibly, julie..I'll take some pics of mine tomorrow and we'll compare notes  ;D

I showed them to my husband tonight and straight away he pulled it said "That's a weed", and it was.  Oh well.  Do you know how long they take to sprout through the ground?  I planted them about 8" deep at the beginning of June.
Julie

What did you actually plant? With sweet potatoes you plant a slip which is a rooted shoot so theres nothing to 'come up', it just keeps on growing into a vine. Did you plant whole sweet potatoes?

I was sent a whole potato which had stems and leaves growing from it.  I was told to split it with a stem to each piece and then plant it like a spud.

Ive never heard of it being done that way before.

I planted 2 slips and then the rest of the s.p with small slips attached, thing is, I planted them all so they were showing, I feel you may have planted them too deep, like a potato, Julie..they're not really potatoes, the tubers grow like swellings on the roots of the plants but the slips need to be above ground  :-\

Oh well, it looks like I have killed what I planted.  Maybe I'll try again next year and get it right!! Thanks for all your replies.
Julie

Here you go, Julie..handy for next time  :)

Quote from: manicscousers on July 11, 2010, 16:56:31
Here you go, Julie..handy for next time  :)

Thanks Manics