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I wish I had this when I planted mine. I have too many in my 15 gallon bags. Smh. Thank you I will definitely remember this.
How do you know when they are ready to harvest?
I wanted to try this this year but the only slips I found for sale were 5 for 30$. That to me was not acceptable cost for 100 day summer my zone 3 gives as risky to even get a crop nevermind trying to get 30$ worth off 5 slips. Any short season zone 3 growers have good harvests of sweet potatoes and how many would you expect to get from 5 slips?
Can you trellis the sweet potato vines if you don't have 10 ft to grow them on the ground
I used coco coir for my sweet potatoes this year and they look great. I used chicken manure also
Ghee…I was just thinking abt that and there pops up your video…thanks Luke
all the sweet potato growing I researched showed when fertalized they grow plant and not tubers, most tubers from lowest fertility soils. Lazy Dog travis showed this on his vids. I hope you do a follow up to show your results good or bad in containers as that is the way I would try too vs his in-ground way. Thanks
I have my grow bags on a high bench type table. Would that be ok just to let the vine cascade downward?
This is my first year officially growing sweet potatoes. I experimented last year with a random slip I had from a store bought sweet potato. I have three different varieties, bouregaurd, a Japanese red, and Okinawan. I have two 30-35 gallon containers with 6 plants each. 8+ hours of sun and plenty of water. The weather lately has been hot and humid where I live and my sweet potatoes are looking gorgeous! I made some hoop trellises for some of the vines to grow up. I'm really looking forward to seeing what my harvest looks like!
My problem now is too many slips. Im in north Florida and i started growing my own slips from 4 different varieties in spring. Got done getting all the slips i needed but the potatoes i used just keep producing. Go figure
I grow a very dark purple kind I got from the Asian market. Very smoky flavor and not as sweet but very good baked and the foliage tastes great in the heat of the summer!
I'd love to see more videos like this where you add in how your harvest from that container went. Maybe even a couple updates over time. It kind of helps a new grower to know what to expect.
I planted sweet potatoes for the first time about 6 in a 20 gallon before seeing this obviously so we will see what happens..
Are you really going to get sweet potatoes planted now? I’ve had mine in since march, once the sweet potato produced slips.
Hot and humid?
That would be a great thing to grow here in Southern Quebec / Northern New York.
This was right on time. I'm propagating slips right now lol
Solid. I prefer your videos like this, shorter and to the point. Well done. o/
Good timing….. I started my own slips by putting 1 sweet potatoe in potting soil.
Haven’t yet but next year maybe!
I used dog food bags! Recycle, recycle, recycle. We filled them with good soil and a tiny bit of cow manure, then aged 3 small holes in the bottom for drainage. So for, it seems to be good. I'll be checking for harvesting next week.
Don’t I need to tease the roots when planting?
Would love to know more about ph.
Can I throw a sprouting sweet potato in the ground?
Sweet potato leaves, especially the new shoots are a very good source of high vitamin greens
Can I still grow sweet potatoes ❤now in in zone 7b
Thank you!
Early on you want leaf development, sure. But once the plant is spread out, you really dont want mich nitrogen in your mix left over. I start off giving it a well balanced mix, but then lean more heavily on phosphorus and potassium to help the roots size up. Check out Rize's Garden channel (@rizesgardening) on his "how to plant sweet potato" video. His yields are ridiculous, from multiple varieties. Sure, he's in a pretty tropical zone, so he can grow a lot longer. But even with some 120 day harvests he has some great yields. And he doesn't overfeed, especially with Nitrogen. He also trellises them up little teepees to save space.
Very good to know! I had the chance to grow purple sweet potatoes this year and didn't because I thought they wouldn't grow in North Dakota. I never thought of using a container.
I second the call for seeing a harvest video when the time comes. Some of the fertilizer advice in this is contrary to my understanding but I'm happy to be proven wrong with a harvest video! Over fertilizing produces pencil-thin tubers in my experience.