Sunday, April 29, 2012

Sweet Potatoes

When I was watering the sweet potatoes plants in their pots I decided they were getting too tangled together. So I split them into two flats instead of one. When I saw the backside of one I wondered if a leaf had died or something. Then I noticed it was two flowers. I never knew that sweet potatoes put out such beautiful flowers. The slips were sent to me by Norma and they were labeled as "Unknown". So I have no clue as to the variety. But their flowers are really pretty.

The sweet potatoes that I'm trying to get slips from are starting to take off. It has been about two months since I put them in water. A long, long time. I thought about taking some slips and potting them up, but with Norma's slips it took about a month to get where they are now. Now they are just starting to run. I think it would be better just to leave them on the sweet potatoes and cut them off when I get close to planting. Otherwise I might not have usable slips to put out into the garden in a month.

9 comments:

  1. Wow! Very pretty flowers. I just spotted some roots on the sweet potato I put in water about a month ago. I don't think I will have any slips in time to plant this year. I'll have to try again next year. I can't wait to see how yours do.

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  2. I just cut one of the slips off my sweet potato and stuck it in water (it was way smaller than yours, about 6 inches at the tallest leaf). Within three days, it was showing signs of roots. Today I'm going to pot it into some soil.

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  3. wow who would have guessed they had such pretty flowers.....I just realized that i have my sweet potatoes in the wrong way....lol Off to turn them right side up...oh my!

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  4. Those sure are pretty enough just to be a flower. I still have my sweet potato in water. Lots of those little white root things in the water but no greenery. Still hoping and hoping for some slips. Nancy

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  5. Wow, Phil doesn't like sweet potatoes but I could grow them just for that flower.

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  6. I had the same experience as Kaytee - once they were off the tuber and in some water they seem to root pretty quickly and kept growing at a good rate once potted up.

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  7. My sweet potatoes never flowered this early, wondered if it is due to the strange weather we are experiencing or the variety. Now if only I could remember which of the sweet potato I sent you this one came from.

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  8. Your windowsill yams are farther along than mine. I have three nice pots of them growing in our driveway with impressive vines, and three little cuttings on the windowsill that I hope to plant in the fourth pot when they're larger. They grow really well in fabric Gro-Pots. Good luck with yours!

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