|
|
Post by kevin8715 on Jun 22, 2014 20:15:16 GMT -5
Update. I have a total of 6 varieties. Two purple, one white, two orange, and an unknown. If anybody wants to order from GRIN for useful material, I went through the descriptors to get these accessions. I don't really want to order anything else. www.ars-grin.gov/cgi-bin/npgs/html/close.pl?109018+7 |
|
|
|
Post by kevin8715 on Jul 5, 2014 21:31:56 GMT -5
One plant has flower buds. Though I did cheat kind off by planting a tuber when I couldn't find more neighbors to take some slips. Boy do sweet potatos produce lots of slip.
|
|
|
|
Post by kevin8715 on Jul 13, 2014 11:55:46 GMT -5
I can take cuttings from molokai purple sweet potato and the grocery store orange sweet potato if anyone wants to trade. In the fall I will have small tubers available from hopefully all the varieties I have.
|
|
|
|
Post by flowerweaver on Jul 13, 2014 12:41:59 GMT -5
kevin8715 something ate the two slips of the Thai sweet potato down to nubs that I planted in a fenced enclosure which makes me think it was either mice or cut-leaf ants. I have more slips in the window ready to plant, and can trade you some cuttings in the fall. I'm interested in the purple Molokai. I am so very disappointed that my order from Sandhill arrived last week and the leaves had liquified. They probably sat in a hot USPS truck for a couple of days. I will be lucky to get about three plants out of 30 to live. I ordered in early February and they let me know there would be a delay, I just never thought they would be this late. I bought some long season ones, too, but now that's cut short. I will likely have to grow them out in the greenhouse. If anyone has a recommendation of when I should place a Sandhill order in the future, let me know. It was my impression they don't take orders until Jan 1.
|
|
|
|
Post by steev on Jul 13, 2014 23:37:07 GMT -5
I planted out 20 transplants of Beauregard, Garnet, and Sweet; dusted the drip-lines with MAP and mulched with redwood sawdust; I'll add later-rooted slips to that patch as practical, keeping watch for blooms and potential seed.
|
|
|
|
Post by Tiirsys on Jul 20, 2014 23:45:16 GMT -5
I'd love to get some Molokai Purple sweet potato. I got some unnamed old time variety of sweet potato, beauregard, and then at my work they gave me one that was being sold as a decorative plant. Just a purple vining sweet potato. The leaves are purple, don't know about the tuber.
|
|
|
|
Post by notonari on Jul 30, 2014 6:17:39 GMT -5
One of my sweet potatoes started flowering last week. Since this seems quite unusual (I'm in Southern Sweden, so very long daylength times at the moment) I would love to get some seed from it. I'm relatively new at growing sweet potatoes but my understanding is that plants are generally self-incompatible. Anyone know of a way to bypass this, i.e. could I somehow save the pollen (freeze it?) until another variety happens to flower?
I've no idea what variety it is, I produced some slips from different supermarket tubers.
|
|
|
|
Post by nicollas on Aug 10, 2014 1:22:05 GMT -5
From Horticultural reviews vol 28
|
|
|
|
Post by ferdzy on Aug 10, 2014 6:57:38 GMT -5
Matuyama; I hate to say it but you probably have a multi-year project here. Keep roots or slips from your flowering sweet potato inside over winter, and try to find another kind that flowers next year. I have one kind that flowers reliably (Georgia Jet) but have yet to find it a mate after 3 years of looking.
|
|
|
|
Post by kevin8715 on Aug 10, 2014 21:49:17 GMT -5
Update. There has been at least 10 blooms on the most vigorous plant. However since it's the only one flowering there is no seed set. Hopefully the unknown purple or Molokai catches up and flowers before the season's end. I wonder if something similar to how Bill W takes his oca cuttings to flower and set seeds indoors can be done. Though the room that would take would be very annoying. Next year if everything goes well I should have 7 varieties plus any I trade for. Hopefully I can get two plants of each of actual tubers planted so that they all grow very vigorous, and actually planted in the same place.
|
|
|
|
Post by steev on Aug 10, 2014 22:31:59 GMT -5
This is looking like a fun project. The three varieties I'm growing are looking very vigorous and I continue to pull slips from the original tubers to add to the patch. Clearly, I will add more varieties as they are available, in future. I've thought sweet potatoes a tad water-needy, but I think I have the mulch thing whipped, with the redwood sawdust, so rock on!
|
|
|
|
Post by notonari on Aug 14, 2014 2:08:31 GMT -5
Thanks for the hint, ferdzy, guess I will need some patience then. I have one Georgia Jet which hasn't flowered yet, and I don't think the one flowering now is the same (I have to double check once I harvest but I believe it's a purple-fleshed variety) so there's at least some chance I will get two flowering varieties at some point.
|
|
|
|
Post by khumlee on Aug 15, 2014 3:55:23 GMT -5
A picture of recent sowing of true sweets potatos seeds (10seeds) of Blackie variety, only one seed grow after 1 week. The seeds was taken on the plant and dry a week only before sowing. The first true leaf appear since the lastest days I don't know what will be happening with this young plant, the variety will be different from Blackie parent (no other bloomming vareties around) or not ?, big and quality tubers ? What do you think about it ?  |
|
|
|
Post by philagardener on Aug 15, 2014 5:52:05 GMT -5
I think that looks really interesting! Another great project! I hope the seasons cooperate as this grows out.
|
|
|
|
Post by steev on Aug 17, 2014 23:49:03 GMT -5
My earliest-planted sweets are starting to run vigorously, no blooms, yet; think I'm gonna try eating leaves, and if I like them, maybe drying some.
|
|
