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Post by flowerweaver on Dec 4, 2015 14:33:21 GMT -5
It never ceases to amaze me when my best success is... accidental!!
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Post by jondear on Dec 4, 2015 18:54:30 GMT -5
^Some of the best things I've done in gardening were things that I did before I knew any better.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Dec 5, 2015 20:47:12 GMT -5
 Got this after placing one uneaten sweet potato in a dark dresser drawer for a few weeks. |
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Post by philagardener on Dec 6, 2015 15:54:54 GMT -5
I had a few of mine start to sprout while I was curing them, but once I took them out of the warmth/high humidity they are resting nicely!
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Post by eastex on Feb 19, 2016 2:06:32 GMT -5
Ordered my sweet potato slips today! I am so excited! Finally found a site where I could order just a handful of a few different types for a very reasonable price. I will never need 25 sweet potato slips! Dewd, do you KNOW how far those vines will go? I'd need serious acreage to use more than the dozen I've ordered. Even those are really more than I need. But they're going to serve as my ground cover this summer cu my trees are still young. But I am really excited to try the new to me varieties! Diana and Purple Passion. The Carolina Ruby, I've grown before and loved.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Feb 19, 2016 23:01:03 GMT -5
I've been pulling slips from one of the sweet potato tubers that I grew last year. I currently have about 15 slips potted up. And I can't plant them out until about June... Oh well, I'll try to keep them alive until then, and keep pulling slips off. I shared the sweet potato seeds that I received widely. Hopefully some of you will have success with them.
I am incubating some of the slips at 80 F, and giving them 8 hours of light per day. Supposedly they should start flowering about 30 days after I stop the short day treatment. I don't have a genetically distinct variety growing to overcome any self-compatibility, but at least I can play with triggering flowering. Then do it for real later in the season.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on Feb 20, 2016 21:46:53 GMT -5
I figure that most sweet potatoes are self-incompatible most of the time. I am only growing slips from one tuber from a plant that managed to produce tubers for me last summer. I started soaking 6 sweet potato seeds last night. Figure that I'll try to sprout them now, just to get a feel for how they grow.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Feb 20, 2016 22:49:28 GMT -5
The stokes purple sweet potato is growing many leaves off the tuber i have rooted in water. I think i have several i can start pulling off to root and turn into slips.
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Post by reed on Feb 21, 2016 4:45:53 GMT -5
I'v been researching and reading about all the kinds available but doubt if I make any purchases. Even if I had the coin for it I don't have space to trial lots of kinds. Plus I am tired of the "trial" thing. I'v got some seeds and I have two locally grown kinds to make slips from so that is what I'm starting with. I always thought my dirt just didn't grow good sweet potatoes. They grow fine but didn't taste good, all that time I never knew they had to cure for a while before you eat them.
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Post by gilbert on Mar 15, 2016 23:16:21 GMT -5
Great project!
As other people on here have said, my climate is not great for sweet potatoes. But I am working with growing them in towers, which heat things up.
Maybe once I have more experience with them, I will work with some TSPS.
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Post by steev on Mar 16, 2016 0:26:04 GMT -5
I've no inclination to buy slips, but I bought a bag of mixed sweets cheapo today; at least three common cultivars; I'll stick the whole tubers in the ground eventually; if they grow, fine; if not, no big loss. I'm not real motivated, but I realize sweets may come to be very important to me. There are so many other crops I'd rather put effort into.
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Post by keen101 (Biolumo / Andrew B.) on Mar 16, 2016 1:15:15 GMT -5
I'm up to three distinct varieties. Thats all im going to try. I have them rooting in water in a warm window sill making slips. Not sure of the names other than thw stokes purple. One is a short stubby one that grows slow that i don't particularly care for, but i figure it cant hurt and wont take up any extra space. Anything to try and increase the odds of getting some true sweet potato seeds.
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Post by reed on May 4, 2016 13:38:15 GMT -5
Up to three sprouts now, still all form the little purple ornamental. Noticeable differences in color, one is very purple, one plain green and one in between.
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Post by Joseph Lofthouse on May 4, 2016 20:22:51 GMT -5
I planted my sweet potato seeds on May 2nd. In coconut coir, in the greenhouse, on the bench. Hottest place I know of. I shared the heck out of them this spring, so I only had 5 to 7 seeds for each of 4 accessions. I took my inspiration from reed's work, and just went ahead and sowed them. I'm not interested in selecting for varieties that only grow after sulfuric acid treatment. |
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Post by steev on May 4, 2016 23:40:29 GMT -5
I planted out my whole sweets a month ago; que sera, sera; no sign of them yet; if they don't survive, despite being mulched against dry and cold, RIP!
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