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Sweet potato slips
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Sweet potato slips
Last year I went crazy trying various methods to get sweet potato slips. At the harvest time of sweet potatoes in NC because we didn’t get our own we bought a box of sweet potatoes from our local supply store. I now have 5 potatoes left in the box and they are all producing slips. Why not do it this way every year? Is there a reason not too? When ready I’ll pull the slips and eat the potatoes.
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I started my slips from extra potatoes from last year. I punched holes in the bottom of plastic tubs, filled them with damp soil, put the mini potatoes in the soil, put the tubs on a rack to keep in moisture. Watered periodically, but didn’t let them get wet. Put this in a sunny window. One tub sprouted, the other did not.
Learned this method from Danny at Deep South.
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I tried that last year also and only got two slips. The ones I have now are kept in the box I got them in and in a dark cool pantry.
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My solution here in Florida is just leave them in the ground and don’t harvest them. They start making slips, then I bury the slips in place, so they can root. If you keep burying the vegetation the stronger the slips will be with roots.
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Do you pull the slips off the potato or leave the whole potato with slips as is?
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I leave the potato and slip as is… I let a vine grow out from the potato, the bury the bottom of the vine. I allow this vine to root, then after it is rooted I break this slip + roots off from the main potato .
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Ok that’s neat. Gotta try it. Thank you
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Yup i’ve never had much luck w my own slips.
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Frustrating but I will figure this out.😂
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