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Post by castanea on Jan 29, 2015 21:19:13 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. Place the order as early as you can so you can get the rarer varieties, but that has nothing to do with when they will be sent. They don't send them out until much later. |
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Post by flowerweaver on Jan 30, 2015 18:04:11 GMT -5
castanea I ordered on February 1st last year--which I thought was early--and promptly received a letter saying my order was something like #379 and they would let me know if they ran out of the rarer things. I guess I should have accepted substitutions, but I had no idea. Several months later I received notice that they would have the rarer things but not be able to send them until June. Considering I have a long growing season that was still just barely enough of a window. Then I never heard from them again until I picked up the box, which I had no idea had been shipped since June is a wide window, and they were mush. There was a note that some of the things they still didn't have, so they gave me a partial credit. They had been pretty good at communication up until that time, so I thought I would receive an email when they shipped. I did not. Overall, it was a very disappointing situation.
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Post by ilex on Jan 31, 2015 3:03:08 GMT -5
Have some seeds(2013 I think) but no time. If anybody is interested, send me a pm.
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Post by ilex on Jan 31, 2015 5:29:00 GMT -5
Have some seeds(2013 I think) but no time. If anybody is interested, send me a pm. Gone to a new home |
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Post by ottawagardener on Jan 31, 2015 9:32:53 GMT -5
Ah darn. If any other seeds come up particularly from short season varieties, let me know pretty please.
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Post by castanea on Jan 31, 2015 21:04:36 GMT -5
castanea I ordered on February 1st last year--which I thought was early--and promptly received a letter saying my order was something like #379 and they would let me know if they ran out of the rarer things. I guess I should have accepted substitutions, but I had no idea. Several months later I received notice that they would have the rarer things but not be able to send them until June. Considering I have a long growing season that was still just barely enough of a window. Then I never heard from them again until I picked up the box, which I had no idea had been shipped since June is a wide window, and they were mush. There was a note that some of the things they still didn't have, so they gave me a partial credit. They had been pretty good at communication up until that time, so I thought I would receive an email when they shipped. I did not. Overall, it was a very disappointing situation. I get their catalog later than many others because I am in California and I have been too late for a few things. Sorry to hear about your unpleasant experince. One year I got their sweet potato slips in July, but they still had time to mature here. |
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Post by imgrimmer on Feb 24, 2015 8:00:41 GMT -5
I found an interesting article about sweet potato cultivation in Austria from the 1950's --" Versuche zur gartenbaulichen Einbürgerung der Batate (Ipomoea Batatas Lam.)." Von Othmar Werner, Wien. Mit 9 Abbildungen.-- the author claimed that tied up vines produced more blossoms, while vines on the ground rarely flowered. also the treatment of young plants with potassium permanganate should lead to a better bloom formation. here is the original quotation S.192 " Das empfohlene Aufleiten der Batatensprosse führte auch in von mir angestellten Orientierungsversuchen zur Entwicklung einiger Blüten (Abb. 2). An den niederliegenden Sprossen von Freilandkulturen konnte ich nur äußerst selten Blüten beobachten." " Neuerdings wird von Priampolski (1950) eine Methode der Behandlung von Setzpflanzen mit Kaliumpermanganat angegeben, durch die es möglich sein soll, Samen von Bataten zu Züchtungszwecken auch in der gemäßigten Zone zu erzielen." |
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Post by steev on Feb 24, 2015 22:18:24 GMT -5
Interesting; I'll try to up-trellis my plants this year; couldn't hurt.
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Post by ottawagardener on Feb 26, 2015 17:22:09 GMT -5
Paying rapt attention
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Post by notonari on Mar 9, 2015 16:49:05 GMT -5
I think flowering last year was brought on by my plants being stressed (particularly by drought I've read somewhere) so I'll try to keep watering to an absolute minimum this year. If they survive the east african dry season they should be able to handle a bit of Swedish summer..
I'm upscaling my attempts to find a good short-season variety this year, I've collected some highland varieties that I hope stand some chance here.
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Post by steev on Mar 9, 2015 20:15:48 GMT -5
If drought promotes flowering, my sweets should be blooming bouquets.
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Post by ilex on Mar 17, 2015 1:54:17 GMT -5
I've seen grafting on related species to promote flowering.
I get a lot of flowers, what I usually don't get is seed.
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Post by notonari on May 27, 2015 4:54:43 GMT -5
I'm growing out some 30 sweet potato varieties this year in an attempt to find cold-tolerant strains and maybe, just maybe produce a seed or two. I've got a bunch of Euro/American orange and purple varieties, but mostly I'm trailling different African varieties (sourced from altitudes 1300-2100m) with yellow and white flesh and high dry matter. Now if only the temperature would inch a bit higher than the current 13C, I could actually put them out..
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Post by reed on May 28, 2015 10:02:53 GMT -5
Is it too late to sprout some sweet potato plants? I found some I forgot about that I guess probably won't keep another year anyway so guess I should give it a try.
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Post by imgrimmer on May 28, 2015 13:17:31 GMT -5
notonari where do you get all these ugandian varieties from? I wish you good luck! The weather can only get better  it`s the same here too 
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it`s the same here too 