How to Propagate Sweet Potato Slips from Store-Bought Tubers
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There are 3 ways to easily grow sweet potato slips and I show you each of these ways and their results. There is one way which is far superior and provides you with better quality and more sweet potato slips than you will know what to do with.
Loads of you have asked me how you make sweet potato slips and in this video, I take you through not only How To Grow SWEET POTATO SLIPS Productively but on the care, harvesting and storage of sweet potatoes too.
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Thanks for the information from Australia 🇦🇺
Oh my goodness, that looks complicated for a beginner! But, i'll give it a go! Thanks for sharing!
I'm getting a late start as I was focused on regular potatoes, but I'm going to try this. I just got some beautiful organic sweet potatoes from Misfits Market, a mail order place that sells imperfect groceries at a discount.
Grew these in South Carolina, now got them started in Maine. Wish me luck shoots are comming out!
My best ever crop of slips came from a sweet potato that got lost in the back of the pantry. I spotted a couple of leaves near the door and followed the vine to find a sweet potato nest behind the flour sacks. I took a dozen strong slips and then put the tuber in compost in the greenhouse where it promptly died. I harvested 2-3kg of tubers from each of those slips. So then I put a tuber the same size as the original in the pantry where I found the nest hoping for a repeat. Nope. It just shrivelled up 🤨
I am in SC and started mine in water about 2 months ago, already have 8 vines in water with roots from the potatoes I put half submerged in water. Going to start some more today half buried in soil, teaching my grandchildren how to grow them another way thanks to you, we still have a couple of months to go before planting outside. Thank you for another great informative video.
Excellent
Growing them this year for the first time here in Southern USA. Excited to see if our hot and humid summer will produce thriving sweet potatoes!
You will get great crops they love hot and humid
Hello from Tulsa, Oklahoma USA. Thank you for your information.
I started in January, I got my sweet potatoes from Tesco, the organic section, plus they grew very well, had to eat some the foliage, because of poor light, the leaves were withered. Starting new slips to plant and grow the sweet potatoes.
Thats great hopefully we will have a gd season
I tried to grow slips from 3 organic potatoes. One using your 3rd method and 2 in jars of water. The only one that produced anything was one that was in a jar of water. The one thing that I did different with that one is that I kept that suspended over a heat source (a regular light that I could rest it on straddling the shade). That one has exploded with slips. There has got to be 15 or so growing from it. Bright green and very healthy looking. Thank you for the info you provided in your video. Well put.
Possibly the one in soil is a dud try again with it
Your video is the most helpful so far for beginners gardener! With pictures, videos and great explanation! Thank you 🥔
Glad it was helpful!
I'm in Vermont, USA and you inspired me to give sweet potatoes a try! I've got three trays with half-buried sweet potatoes out in the greenhouse now.
Thats great Lori. I cant wait to here how you do
Great advice thanks! I'm growing them for the first time this year, they have been water propagating for about 2 months now and have taken off 7 slips from 1 potatoe! Seeing as my slips are small but rooting I think I'll start them in small pots before moving them to the perminant growing pot. Thanks again for the tips!
Thats awesome. Bet you cant wait until its growing well. Dont forget the leaves are edible too
@@simplifygardening I'm making a video diary about it, it's always fun to look back. And yes they are so much fun to grow!! I tried some of the leaves raw as I was pruning them off the slips, and the layered flavour blew me away! I'm equally as excited to cook some of them yummie greens up 😁
I arrived at the best (third) way to create slips without seeing anyone do this, and yes it really works perfectly. I used Tesco Sweet potoes , just scrubbed them gently with warm water and a nailbrush and they have all sprouted. I think the key is keeping the compost moist all the time and sprouting them in a propogator at a near constant 75 deg F on a well lit window cill.
Thank you, great tips. I will get organic sweet potatoes in December and get started.
Brilliant
I am in America, this is my first time growing sweet potatoes. Really my first time with a big garden. I am excited that l had 3 slips l started, but l ordered some because l wanted more and l am new to this. Thank you for the tips.
Nancy next year you can grow lots
Starting slips today! Hope i can get some slips in time! TY!
Yes Tony I have another crop in at the moment here in Australia- haven't been doing so well with them of late so going to watch your video again as I might be making some mistakes. Cheers Denise - Australia
Yes We grow them every year Tony some growing to the size of two and three pounds must be the liquid fish fertilizer we feed them with...seems once you have them in the garden they are there forever! Thank the dear Lord...we also don’t grow them in pots or the ground but in straw bales they have wonderful loose decomposed soil here in our very hot climate to grow in maybe that’s what a few each year grow so big? We also eat the green leaves in salads so there is another food source,thank you for sharing your love and knowledge,stay blessed dear Garden lover!
I am, ive already planted up two with wonderful root systems and have some in water waiting. I also kept the potatoes to grow more slips. I’m excited for the results and can’t wait to plant them out in the poly tunnels 💚 I used the water system with great results but will try the soil system next year! Thank Tony 💚 Geri
Thats great Geri hopefully we will have a good growing season
the third method you described is what i am using. i have used the sweet potato in a glass many times great for producing roots very slow for slips, the wafer method even slower, the half buried in a tray cuts time in half. i leave a couple of slips on the buried potato their roots feed the mother. set on top of refrigerator; a cold windowsill slows them down.
I have started sweet potato slips. I used the first method of putting the sweet potatoes in a jam jar with water. I started those in late March and and FINALLY have 6 to 8 inch slips in late May. I will definitely try putting them in potting soil next time.
Sounds great! much quicker
Thanks Tony! Life has been crazy in the red zone of the new crud where I live in Snohomish County, WA state in the US. I haven't been out in public for 2 wks. We still have frost...couple nights ago 29 degrees F, but a few days ago I planted greens and herbs in a raised bed. I want to start sweet potatoes soon so going to try your third method. Thank you and stay safe! Blessings from across the pond.👵🐕🌱
Hey Melody just follow the tips and you will have loads of sweet potato slips. So far I have had over 50 off just two potatoes
Love sweet potatoes
I started growing Sweet Potato Slips I'm a beginner from Corsicana Texas
I so appreciate the clear and thorough explanations you provide on this channel. High value. Thanks!
I live in the state of WA in the US near Canada, very short growing season here. Will be growing these on aa coveres trelis.
Just starting my sweet potato slips today, will see what this years crop brings!
Yours is one of my favorite channels👍
thanks so much appreciate it Sorry for the late reply
Started when I watched your video few months ago and slips are showing . Thanks !!
Thats great and perfect timing
I sure wish I would have watched this last year!!! I would have had tons of slips for now. I’m just thinking about growing sweet potatoes. I’ll need to purchase slips at this point because I don’t think I have time to make my own. Especially if the slips take 6 months to mature into a harvest. I cared for an elderly ladies sweet potato plants last year after she fell and couldn’t garden anymore. I didn’t think it took that long before I harvested a nice crop. Sweet potatoes make some very interesting shapes upon maturity. I’ll let you imagine. Thanks for this extremely informative video. Very well done.
Glad you found value in it. at least your ready for next year now :)
@@simplifygardening just found this video agayand saw where I commented. No I wasn’t ready last year but I am this year and thanks to your 3rd method I have slips to plant as well I purchased some rarer varieties
Hello I just put 3 sweet potato to bare slips just 2 days ago and I'm already seeing roots sprouting I'm so excited......I also put white potatoes to sprout can't wait for the next step......
That is excellent Karen. That feeling you have now. Hold on to it 😉👍
@@simplifygardening certainly will....
Hi Tony I am
In Australia.Going to try your method to grow Sweet potatoes will keep you informed
Please do! I would be interested to see how they go for you. I did use this method when I lived there
@@simplifygardeningHey Tony would you use blood & bone when you put in sweet potato slips?
I didn't have success sprouting my sweet potatoes but i am undaunted! I've found a place (here in Canada) where I hope to buy slips to grow,( assuming things open up a bit in the next little while from the shelter in place order we've had) and then I'll try rooting slips from the vines I grow and eventually from my own Organic Sweet Potatoes. Thanks again for the inspiration Tony. Cheers!
Kevin try again next year. Give plenty of bottom heat esp in Canada
Tony, I will try again. They were indoors under lights in the nursery and I added a heat mat after day two so I had real good bottom heat from then on. My slips are ordered so hopefully I'll have my own sweet potatoes to try for next year. Cheers!
I've planted 13 different varieties of sweet potato in my backyard a few days ago !
Wow your going to get awesome crops. There are so many varieties available
You are obviously in a warm climate, not the temperate UK.
@@mikeharrington5593 yup, just in the middle of equator
I'm starting some with the soil method here in the next couple days. We'll see how it goes!
Let me know Mike
I started some on Feb. 20 in dirt....nothing yet😕
Really useful always have issue getting slips to start. I'll try lying bit on the side and add some bottom heat
Monty you will nail it just try this method mate
Nice video Tony, I guess I should see what they taste like, before I consider growing them. Can you believe Ive never tried one before 🤔🤣. All the best mate
🌻 Nigel .......MuddyBootz Allotment 🌻
Wow Nigel, they are awesome in place of normal spuds for jackets you need to try them mate. HAve a go at growing some but get some tubers and try them
Thanks! I’m giving this a try for the first time now. I didn’t know about the extra warm needs of growing sweet potatoes.
They do so much better with it
Great video, my (expensive) slips arrived from Suttons today. I will certainly use one of your methods for next year. looking forward to growing them here in Monmouth for the first time.
Glad it was helpful!
I am growing them for the first time, but i have them in the water method, which i will change now. I also did not know they needed light, so another woops on my part. We learn as we grow!
Every day is a learning day Bernadette
May be something to think about here too . great video
Thanks glad you enjoyed it
I have some started already in FL
Love sweet potatoes. Giving your 3rd option ago for first time. Fingers crossed and thanks for video Tony 🤗
Gail let me know how you do with them
Superb video Tony! Saved it for reference. They’re on my list of things to grow when I get my poly tunnel 👍🏼😊🌱
They are great to grow Kelly. Glad you got value from the video 😉👍
Thank you for such a comprehensive video. Can’t wait to try. Love your accent too!
thanks v much, wow, i never knew we could grow sweet potatoes successfully here in the UK, as uk shops dont sell them like they do with seed potatoes, veg seedlings, plug plants, etc.
Thank you for the informative video ,i loved sweet potato .
Yeah me too, thanks Mercy Lim
What I find is a useful bonus right now is the broccoli-like florets from the curly kale which is trying to flower & seed, but I won't let it flower all the while it keeps producing those tender & tasty florets for picking.
Yeah thats a good idea. I purple sprouting brocoli for that
Great information going to give the 3rd method ago thankyou for sharing
Great its by far superior to the other two
Hi Tony
Hope you are well and safe,
Yes I'm growing sweet potatoes again and like you I prefer the start them in compost, mine have started, so hopefully get a good load of slips before my main planting in May.
1 point is that the leaves of sweet potatoes are delicious and actually have more nutritional value than the sweet potato itself, so even if you don't get a huge harvest of the potatoes it's still worth growing them. 🌱👍
Yeah Jay I do eat the leaves thats why im growing other for the leaves and the containers for the spuds
Not sure about the uk, but in oz i keep a few spuds in a spare spot and let the vines grow. Then snip off a foot slip n put them in a jar of water. Roots start after as little as two days.
Sometimes it can take a long time for spud to start making slips. Hence keeping a spare bit of dirt for them to grow vines.
Yeah it takes a little longer here John
I love the way you explained it
We love sweet potato thanks for the tips... Stay safe....
Hi Tony! We have in our plans to grow sweet potatoes this year. Actually, I have some slips forming from last year's potatoes that I saved just for this purpose. Growing your food is so important more than ever. Thanks!
With the way things are in society atm I think even the hardest people who said why grow your own you can buy them for 33p per kilo are now wishing they could grow their own
@@simplifygardening that's the truth.
Started my sw. potatoes off to produce slips today 😁 1st time I've tried 👍happy gardening and thanks for all your help mxxx
Best of luck!
Starting late this year in Israel.
Thanks for the info. so well presented.
Glad it was helpful!
I'm in Louisiana. Started in middle of April. Will be starting some in pots soon.
Excellent Charles. let me know how they do this year
Wow great 🥔 video Tony!
Nice tip to use organic, I didn't know that they spray sprout inhibitors.
Thanks Suzy. Glad you enjoyed it. Hows your channel doing
@@simplifygardening it's a bit less views right now, but it's because I haven't posted in over a week. How are you and your family doing? Alex and I are staying home as much as possible.
The best way to make slips is to get a container make holes to drain and bury them. Cover them with about four inches of soil. Water them a couple times a week. It takes a couple weeks for the to start coming up. After they get over 6” hold the potato down and pull them up ! They will have lots of roots and ready to plant. It is by far the best way. You can get loads of slips. Try it you get a lot better root system !
Just found your site looking at sweet potato slips. Excellent information clear and concise, will be watching a lot more. Thank You
Awesome! Thank you! Sorry for the late reply
My starter potatoes molded in soil last year. I will try coco coir this year and also the half in water way. Gotta get this going to propagate the type I like. Dark skin and rich orange inside.
Yes they are great spuds but need an early start
I've put my SP in my fish tank and it's grown an amazing amount of roots and it's just started to grow some shoots. I've tested my water which is always high in nitrates as water we have here already has a significant amount of nitrates. And for the first time I've noticed a lower amount of nitrates. So a win win situation for both the fish and the sweet potato. Its a tropical tank so it has a good amount of heat in it already. When the shoots form, hopefully it will get extra light from the tank light too.
Oh great idea it will love the nitrates
As always, your video is spot on, Tony. Thank you for teaching me how to garden to the best of my ability. Cheers!
My pleasure!
I have my slips.started, but I'm going to also try your method. It looks much more natural.
You can do it!
I'm probably too late starting to try and grow slips but I'm giving it a go anyway, I currently have them in my spare room which stays nice and warm so hopefully this will help catch up on a little time as they will get the warmth and light they need, I will put my little grow lights on once it gets dusk. I'm trying the water and soil method to experiment, your video was so informative and helpful I just had to try it, couldn't wait till next year so if it doesn't work this year it only cost a little time and effort and 2 sweet potatoes LOL, thank you for sharing your knowledge, you have a really nice presentation style, I've subscribed and will be looking out for more of your useful videos, I love all types of gardening, flowers and veggies so thank you again and stay safe :)
Hi Tony, you may not know that Kumara (sweet potatoes) are a major commercial crop in New Zealand. They were brought to NZ as a staple food source by our Maori peoples on their migrations from 1350 AD. Their archaeological cultivation and storage beds throughout the warmer North Island have been found dating from that time. Kumara are a staple of our winter veg table here and included with potatoes in roasts, stews and even summer salads as they are used similarly to a potato salad. For kitchen storage they can be cut in chucks and bagged up in the freezer ready for use as you might use pumpkin/squash.
Thanks for that. I have a detailed list of all the varieties on the sweet potato blog post on my website, this does cover this variety, but I was unaware of its history. Thanks
I've also heard you can eat the leaves. So double win even if you get smaller tubers
This is a fantastic vlog, mate. I have not found anything as complete on the subject of growing sweet potatoes in the UK or anywhere. Thank you for putting this together. I have like and subscribed. Excited to know what else I can learn.
So nice of you. I have loads of videos all designed to help you get the best production possible
Good advice which I’m going to take on board. Do I see worzel gummidge behind you 😁
Yes you do :)
Excellent video, thanks for sharing
Thanks Peg. Are you growing sweet potatoes this year?
@@simplifygardening Yes I just put some slips in water and the roots are growing great but I only have 2 slips so I think I will grow them in pots since I don't have that many, I live in Florida and it is very mild here
So excited to try this next year
Thank you Tony! Great tips. I have some started. All I need now is the warm weather. :)
Its what we all need lol. I cant wait for the rain and winds to go and for it to climb in the temps
We were just about to grow sweet potatoes and had no idea how. Great info. Thank you
Glad it was helpful! Deb if you need any further help just shout and good luck
@@simplifygardening I bought some organic sweet potatoes and they didn't shoot. Is there any way to remove the growth retardant or another idea to make them sprout?
Me and my son got some purple and white sweetpotatos and it was in a butter bucket and it started sporting on it's own so we started putting them in water to see if we could grow them
Excellent hope they do well for you
I love your accent. And the potatoes are great too! 😏
Thank you Kelli :)
Perfect timing! Have two sweet potatoes, bought from supermarket, which I didn't get to quickly enough and have produced slips by themselves! I assume I can use them to make more?
Pleased to report I am mostly recovered from chest infection, so getting out in the garden today with 3 year old daughter. We are following self isolation guidelines, so this will be a welcome break for her from being stuck indoors all week.
Hope you and yours are keeping safe! Take care!
Yes trest them as method 3 and if they are already sprouting your ahead of the game. Have a gd day in the garden
Thank you
Thanks for the information! Looking forward to trying to grow sweet potatoes in my garden here in Canada. Also your scarecrow at 4:28 scared the heck out of me, lol.
Good luck!
The potato will quickly grow back more slips if you don't break them off, but cut them off. The potato has little trouble growing longer shoots after cutting but great stress restarting new growth buds to make shoots all over again. I like placing the cut slips into a glass of clean water for about 3 days to get roots before planting out.
Might try next year
Lizzie I have pulled over 50 slips so far off just 2 potatoes. the third method rules
UK Here We Grow ok thanks the 3rd way
I will start tomorrow and it will stay in the green house all year
Let me know how you get on
I have sweet and purple potatoes. Only 1 each. Just testing this now. I have them in water but thinking the soil planting would work better.
Happy to see this again, time to grow some red sweet potatoes. I would really like to find the purple ones we had in Australia.
Thank you for sharing
Thanks for watching!
Loving the Worzel Gummidge by the way ... lol
Hi Sue. He is nearly 7 years old now :)
One grower in East Texas plants the hold potato. Then as they vine. He covers the nodes with soil.
interesting
Thank you 🙏
You can eat the leaves like spinach, all parts of the plant are edible, so if there are few tubers, you can still benefit by growing them
totally agree
Not a problem for me. I left one root in the ground and its now growing. I can grow them all year round and all I do is plant a sweet potato in the ground (no slips required for me). btw I grew all my sweet potatoes from store bought. Had no problems with germination, growth or harvest.
Thats great Sandra. Where do you live?
@@simplifygardening I live in Southeast Queensland in a sub-tropical environment.
Yeah I understand now. Perfect conditions there for them even though your heading into fall now. I stayed for about 6 month in Mackay loved it there
Sandra Prestedge I take my bought ones too. Put 1 in water let it grow.
Very helpful! Answered some questions I've wondered for years :) Don't need the background music though - exhausting
Noted!
I take it, our season is 6 months from yours. I'm from Cape Town, do I follow the Ausie timetable or not. Keep them coming. I like your packages.
Follow the info here but with your timescales
Tony, I love your videos!!! You share so much valuable information. I decided to root a sweet potato that was going bad. It has amazing slips on it. I want to grow them in grow bags but is now Sept in Denver, Co. Have you ever started them in the fall? We have a heated patio to keep the bags in. Your thoughts on growing indoors through winter?? TY, Rhonda
Thanks Rhondda Baker glad your enjoying them. No I’ve not grown them in fall they really need the heat to produce tubers
If you provide adequate lighting then with a heater floor they should do ok
Growing them again this year, trying something a bit different this time round...and running another test..Steve...😃
Oh yeah Steve, Id be interested t know more about your tests
You need heat and humidity to grow sweet potatoes. I would recommend large pots in a greenhouse to get what you need to grow this crop.
Yes Sandra, thats why I stated to keep them in the greenhouse
Very timely to prepare & get those slips started & ready to plant out for the UK growing season
Yes Mike. Now is the time to get on with them if you want to grow them this year. Especially as people are locked down. It will give them something positive to concentrate on
Excellent video Tony.
Thanks mate, glad you enjoyed it. They are ticking away nicely in the tunnel atm
Thank you Tony😊
😉👍
Outstanding Tony ! Many thanks for this.
Glad you found it of value Bill
I tried last year from a shop brought plant with leaves.... Never came to anything. Was a waste of time.
But now I know how to care for them. I'm gonna go and get some organic ones and grow em on the window. Love that my new,forever, home has a South facing garden and windows at the back ...means I can grow alot as it's a u shape with the garden back front and side all get lots of sunmonly shade is from the bungalow itself. I really hope that everything im doing this year works. As I'm trying hard and enjoying it.
I’m glad you know now
great video. all others i have seen have shown the first 2 methods. may be a little late for me to try the 3rd in the sunny valleys but i am still going to try.
James where in the valleys are you?
@@simplifygardening sunny Tredegar lol
good video of to get my sweet potato this weekend ,dave,
Thats great dave let me know how they go
Great video Tony, I've not seen sweet potatoes done in the buckets Def gna give that a bash. Now with the lock down, surely me going to the plot where there is no people can constitute exercise for a half hour a day
Yes it can and has been confirmed by Gove that its ok
@@simplifygardening fantastic me and the wee man, only 2. the wee man will be a master grower by end of summer.
great video.
Glad you enjoyed it