How to grow your own sweet potato starts/slips.
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- Опубліковано 8 вер 2024
- Complete instructions on how to grow your own sweet potato slips/starts from a sweet potato. In 2020 we got 40 slips from one sweet potato, planted about 30 of them, and harvested 120 pounds of sweet potatoes! You can do this simple process too!
I grew sweet potatoes in 2019 and saved the ones we didn't eat in a bucket with no soil, kept them in the cellar but not in darkness, Last November I put the roots which had survived nicely, in some pots which are in a sunny window now and the shoots have covered the window. Kind of an experiment I guess but they can survive for years out of the ground. I plan on cutting and making planting shoots as you do so I should have a large patch of them this summer. Enjoyed your video!
That is amazing! Thank you for sharing that info!
I tried about 2 years putting my slips in water . But got just a few from 1 sweet potatoe .
This year I panted my sweet potatoes on top of miracle grew soil and a plant heated mat . I got so many sweet potatoe slips within a month. I'll try and plant some in pots like you did thanks.
Thank you for sharing! There is more than one way to accomplish this task! 🙂
Awesome video. I love growing potatoes but have never grown Sweet potatoes. 2023 is going to be the year. Thank you!
Great video. Much better than others that I've watched on the same subject.
Great video Ms Caza, I learned alot and can't wait to start my own.
Fantastic video
What an easy way to do it! Can't wait to do our own!
I appreciate the comparative, longitudinal format of this video. Thank you.
Fantastic explanation that even I can understand!
Thank you!
Thank you so much for this video ! So much Info
You're welcome! I hope all goes well for you!
Thank you gor taking the time out to experiment as I was wondering in sprouting in water was necessary!
Great!! So easy…thank you!!!
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Started mine last week and have roots too. I saved all the little not quite sweet pots from last year and they started shots which I pulled some off and started the roots. Hope I'm not pushing my luck. Nice video. Thank you!!!
Thank you for watching!
Awesome!
Good information
Thanks for this I could not buy slips as 100,000 (min quantity) would have cost hundreds! I noticed your sweet potato has already sprouted and mine hasn't - i wonder if it will in the sun. It is already end March i hope i am not too late - already warmish here in S France. Thanks this is a life saver!
Wirh the s.p. I've purchased, some just don't sprout and others sprout quickly. If you can find someone who has grown their own s.p. see if you could purchase a couple from them. My original s.p. sprouting began with 3 organic s.p. purchased from While Foods market and 1 of the 3 never sprouted. Don't give up. I plant my slips in mid-May for a mid-Sept harvest but could wait until mid-October before the first frost (I don't wait because they get too big). Figure about 110 days of warm weather needed.
@@LeslieCaza Thanks Leslie for the quick response! I bought one today and have put it in water lets see - no giving up of course!! No one grows anything here except tomatoes and aubergines, my garden is a unique in this area; as i am retired and trying to grow everything! It's so difficult to form alliances maybe not trying hard enough yet - the time will come; food is becoming very expensive.
Try Sprout Mountain. 100 slips + shipping was $75usd.
They have different varieties to try.
I LIKED THIS VIDEO. THANKS AND BLESSINGS TO YOU AND YOURS LESLIE.
I’m in the middle of this experiment myself. I’m fascinated by this process. I did not have luck with the potato in the cup of water but by taking it out and laying it in soil sideways the magic happened. I’ve also taken onion that started sprouting in my kitchen and planted it in soil and it grew stalks and large flowers which I’m waiting to harvest the seeds soon. This is my hobby now seeing as I’m a homebody. I also make knives as a hobby when I’m not at work. Thanks for sharing your experience. I believe the wood stove and sunny windowsill makes all the difference ( warmth). I don’t have either so by putting the potato in soil and covering so it trapped heat and moisture it started thriving.
Finally a video worth watching about growing sweet potato slips. No question, keep the slips in water until the roots grow and then plant them. 👍
Thanks so much. 👏👏👏
This was so informative!!! Thank you!!
You're welcome! Thanks for watching!
I might be late, but I'm going to try.
Sweet potatoes like it hot so plan to put the slips the ground a coule of weeks past the last frost date. Some sweet potatoes sprout very quickly and some never do, so try 2-3 of they are store purchased.
I was informed by my friend than in the south they are called "draws "
Neighbor just burys them in a flower bed and when the shoots come up he reaches down and breaks them off the potato.
Bury the whole thing in dirt for 6 weeks in sunny window and you'll b Ave more slips to cut and put in water for new plants . Try it .You'll see.
Thank you!
Hi, Ms. Leslie. Do you grow slips from a cured or uncured sweet potato, or does it even matter?
Cured. I cured all my sweet potatoes from Nov 2021. That is what I used in this video. I would think any sweet potatoes found in a retail store for food would be cured since curing makes them sweeter.
Cant find an answer to my question. Will it harm sweet potatoes if they are growing in the low spot of my yard where after a heavy rain, standing water occurs but recovers in 24 hours. So can sweet potatoes handle being flooded for short periods of time?
Sweet potatoes like light, well-drained soil. I would make raised beds to help drainage if needed. I hope it works well for you! Don't forget that sweet potatoes have to be cured for weeks in warmth in order to be sweet.
When rooting slips in water, is it ok to dilute the water with low strength liquid fertilizer?
I don't think it's needed but I don't think it would hurt. I would dilute it.
My slips came in the mail. I was thinking that would help with some of the yellow/withering leaves.
Would using some root stimulator speed up the root growth?.
I don't know. They grow relatively quickly.
@@LeslieCazaI had some without any roots in a bucket of sandy soil for 48hrs and there were already 16mm long roots growing out.
What variety do you grow?
Starting early aint you, ima put mine in mason jars n start em this month, I just cut the slips off n stick em in the water n let em go to root. Aren't you the lady from Tipton County Tn??? Ck out my tater plot video i posted in Dec, that's how I'm gonna grow my taters..
Thank you! Do you have issues with voles? Are you in Tipton county?
Send me the link please.
@@LeslieCaza yes I live in Munford, and we have Voles n also several cats. I have a few videos posted n I'm still learning.
@@LeslieCaza ua-cam.com/video/Ogdt3pmuqUQ/v-deo.html here you go.
@@fifeohfarmingnstuff4416 I checked it out! Thank you for sharing what your doing and learning!