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  • #31
    Originally posted by mothhawk View Post
    I get enough junk mail already. I don't want my veg to start sending me stuff too!


    ROFL.

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    • #32
      I've just tipped out my sprouting tubers and the shoots that had roots I've carefully removed and potted up as separate plants. I've 3 so far, and lots more sprouts are coming on. They are growing quite quickly now.


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      Last edited by BarleySugar; 08-02-2012, 12:13 PM. Reason: attached original picture
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      • #33
        Thanks for the update Barley Sugar. Looking good!! Not the slightest sign of a root or sprout on my half tubers yet.

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        • #34
          Originally posted by Ananke View Post
          I thought you had to grow the roots first before the slips would grow, I don't think its the same thing as chitting a spud (i've been really wrong about these sorta things in the past though so don't quote me )

          Here is a pic of my wee root
          That's how we started avocado trees in africa.... toothpicks into the pip/seed
          Last edited by RedThorn; 09-02-2012, 11:40 AM.
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          • #35
            Success!!!

            My sweet potato has tiny slips sprouting.
            My blog - http://carol-allotmentheaven.blogspot.com/

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            • #36
              I hope you'll be very happy together! Mine are still sleeping!

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              • #37
                Originally posted by veggiechicken View Post
                I hope you'll be very happy together! Mine are still sleeping!
                I'm sure we will be, I often find myself just gazing into it's eyes (all 6 of them)

                Fingers crossed yours come out of it's slumber soon.
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                • #38
                  My sweet potatoes are doing something! There are 4 halves suspended in water. One has a tiny root another has two teeny weeny little shoots at the top and the other 2 are still sitting there, sleeping. I expected them all to reaat in the same way - all root, or all shoot. Seems they're more versatile than I thought!

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                  • #39
                    Mine are now providing temptation for greenfly. I don't know where they came from, but each day I'm squishing any I find. I've had to give my biggest plants canes now, they began twining amongst themselves, like bindweed. Altogether 10 plants now, I don't think the tubers will provide any more shoots. I think they will outgrow my kitchen soon
                    Last edited by BarleySugar; 17-03-2012, 07:38 PM.
                    I could not live without a garden, it is my place to unwind and recover, to marvel at the power of all growing things, even weeds!
                    Now a little Shrinking Violet.

                    http://potagerplot.blogspot.com/

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                    • #40
                      My "real" sweet potato is in a pot in the GH looking very lively! No greenfly though, praise be!! - Thank you!!

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                      • #41
                        I've tried growing my own slips with pathetic results.
                        I am very tempted by this:-
                        Sweet Potato Growing Kit - Seed Potatoes - Vegetables - Gardening - Suttons Seeds and Plants
                        Any comments gratefully received.
                        Sent from my pc cos I don't have an i-phone.

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                        • #42
                          Three of my 4 halves are doing something now - albeit rather pathetically. The one with 2 tiny shoots also has a spindly root, 2 others have spindly roots and the 4th is still sleeping.
                          Don't think I'll be cropping these this year
                          Don't know anything about the bought-in tubers, sorry.

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                          • #43
                            Any updates, or is it a waste of time & effort...........Positives needed please.
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                            • #44


                              The 4 half tubers that I was attempting to grow are basically unchanged since the 4th April, although they have more roots and the shooting one has leaves . The 4th one is as dead as a Dodo.
                              Whether to pot them up is the question?
                              UPDATE; I've just potted up the shooted and the best rooted ones. Now lets see what happens
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                              Last edited by veggiechicken; 05-07-2012, 08:43 PM.

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                              • #45
                                My sweet potatoes have been "Feralized".......................the one in the glass has started sprouting from below the cocktail sticks & the halves in the dish, well, the so called top is doing nowt but the so called bottom is sprouting.......

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