This video will teach you the BEST WAY to start sweet potato slips! Using this method, you can turn one sweet potato into 100 lbs (45+ kg!) of sweet potatoes by growing sweet potato slips from a store bought sweet potato. One sweet potato yielded me dozens of slips in only 22 days!
Learn how to cure sweet potatoes with this simple, revolutionary new method here: https://youtu.be/_hPl5MPgNwM
TABLE OF CONTENTS
0:00 Why Every Gardener Should Be Growing Sweet Potatoes
1:24 My Favorite Sweet Potato Varieties
2:48 When To Start Sweet Potato Slips
4:44 Starting Sweet Potato Slips In Potting Mix: The BEST Way!
6:36 How To Remove And Separate Sweet Potato Slips
10:32 The Best Way To Plant Sweet Potato Slips
11:52 Planting Sweet Potato Slips
13:13 Sweet Potato Vines Progress After 7 Days
13:58 How To Root Sweet Potato Slips In Water
14:51 The Sweet Potato Slips Keep Coming! Amazing!
17:17 Adventures With Dale
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50 Comments
Hello there can u talk about how n when to plant the chayote please ! n also how do I call u ( your name )
Thank you for sharing 👏👏👏♥️
I am really excited to attempt sweet potatoes here in the PNW – Willamette Valley, zone 8b. We definitely don't get deluge summers like you do, so I will be mulching like nuts to maintain moisture levels (also trying to start my Back to Eden garden to help with moisture retention and soil quality).
The one thing I can't find around here though, is that Okinawa variety! I would love to wow my family with it, but I'm hesitant to spend $25 on three tubers listed online, as I've read some people got really poor quality or damaged stuff, and the vendors are less than ethical folks. Do you have a suggested vendor? Or could you sell me a few? Lol
That's NOT a food grade plastic that they're sitting and growing in which means the chemicals of the plastic are leaching into that soil. that's a big no no
Wow, this is a very detailed video… and very encouraging. Thank you! ❤
I heard that some sweet potatoes only produce on the spot the slips were planted? When they vine they don’t produce where the vines root?
You talked to me into trying to grow a sweet potatoes again next year ! Lol
I failed to grow slips from bought potato, obviously not organic but will try again next year. I bought a potato plant at £6.99p, so I have the most expensive crop which I havent harvested yet. I still enjoyed growing this for the first time, I didnt think of doing cuttings. Morning glory. I learnt something new.
Here in far north tropical Queensland Australia, have grown mainly the orange sweet potato common here in shops, and the purple skinned, white fleshed variety loved by Maori folk of New Zealand. The first has heart shaped leaves, and the new shoots and soft new leaves are great stir fried or boiled. The purple one has kind of palmate pointed lobed leaves, and its leaves are bitter and i never eat them.
Very informative video thank you. What about yams? Would everything be the same?
Here the purple sweet potatoes are almost $6 pound! But they are soo delicious!
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Do you water your slips everyday?, The ones in the plastic box i mean
Dear Dale, you did a fine job describing the best way to propagate sweet potatoes. You explain everything in a clear and concise manner. For those new to gardening, the dvil is in the detail. Thanks for making those detail interesting and fun to learn. Best Rob
We are in zone 5 and I have gotten some good results in growing them in large totes. Great video.. Thank you so much.
I don’t think it’s a tuber potato is a tuber a modified underground stem sweet potatoes or modified roots corm? Rizhome?
Hi Millinial Gardener
I am from Kingston Jamaican…. I plant my sweets potato and it spread all over my garden …after 5 months I dug up but didn’t see any potato under the ground …. I chop out all the vines but I saw a lot of potato slips growing all over again the more I root out the more it grow ..
Can you tell me where I went wrong.
Thank you so much for your excellent tutorial on sweet potatoes
How many potatoes grow from one slip?
@themillennialgardener
How long can you leave a Sweet Potato in water producing Slips?
My Dog would eat Sweet Potatoes….She passed unexpectedly and we had 1 Sweet Potato sit on the Counter in the shade for almost 3 months.
We put it upright in water and it started growing roots and green leaves immediately (in the kitchen greenhouse window) it's been 2 or 3 weeks now.
Thanks I like this method and will try it
Mr Handsome does not look amused 😉
He's very cute and looks like a very good Boi!
Excellent thank you.
Do you have use a “seed ” potato instead of store bought?
I make slips every year and always end up with way more than I need.
Do these slips give the same amount of sweet potatoes as planting a quarter of a sweet potato as my slip.
As off my normal slip ( I usually plant about a quarter of a sweet potato) I get about 10 sweet potatoes, around about 5 pounds of sweet potato per slip each planting. I have almost unlimited space ( many acres) so thinking maybe I plant thousands of these cuttings.
Sweet potato is one of my favorite root crops. I'll try to plant sweet potato with your method. Thank you for sharing your knowledge.
They had a sale on Sweet potato today I got 4 Pounds for $2 ,I'm going to try to start growing slips from the ends.
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Murisaki is way too fibrous.
What kind of soul should be used? I planted slips in pro mix and miracle grow soil. Didn't know about the 5-5-5 and bone meal. Grew lots of vine but not a single sweet potato harvested. Toronto area. What went wrong?
Can you cut off a sprouting chunk rather than planting the whole potato???
We just cut them into pieces just like potatoes and put em in the ground . We have hundreds of slips
When are they ready to pull them out of the ground
Great video!
How long from slips to full grown potatoes
Omg thats alot of slips
If container gardening how deep and wide does it need to be per slip
Thank you
Once I heard murasaki I hit the like button. Love murasaki
Okinawan Sweet Potatoes are the best❤️❤️❤️❤️
Yes I’m from Okinawa lol
What month do you plant sweet potatoes
Thx
I've read that store bought sweet potatoes are sprayed with chemicals that prevent rooting to help them store for longer, this may be why the store bought ones took so much longer than the one you saved from your garden.
Fantastic video. Thanks. Love Mr Handsome.
What a great vide you are very clever well done ❤️😇❤️
Thank you for being so thorough about this lesson! Very informative and look forward to trying this out. 🙂
Come back when you begin to harvest.
I find the okinawa sweet potatoes usually do not produce slips. I read they are irradiated and thus will cause it to not produce slips. However, if you get them from a farmers market or organic versions then that will work. I ended up ordering the slips from a seller in florida and have been growing them since. I keep a few plants in water during the winter and plant it out again in the spring. About 6/10 of the plants makes it through the winter.
I have slips coming in from a white sweet potato , I live in California zone9a should I plant inside & plant outside next spring?