This beauty only produced a single stem from the tuber last year (first year from a bought tuber) so I let it do its thing all summer.
September I figured I'd see if some of the side shoots would root. 8 weeks later I'd got 4 really healthy cuttings throwing out new green shoots. They started to die back at the start of Dec but I was hopefull that I'd got roots that had started to form a tuber.
Just lifted them now to find no roots and no tubers despite the good growth.
So any hope of cuttings from top growth or advice on increasing the number of eyes available for base cuttings?
by LegoNinja11
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Did you use a rooting hormone product? If you post a photo of the growth you’ve got I can tell you where I would cut.