This by far is the best video on sweet potato slips that I have seen! I Immediately stopped video and relocated my slips to the garage (hail mary attempt to get them to grow) In zone 6 and they recommend that you should have them planted this weekend. (4th of July). So moved to garage (warmer) South facing window. Originally had them on the floor by a North facing window with a vent 20 inches away running air conditioner since I put them there in May. I do have some slips and even roots forming on most but nothing like yours. Will see my first attempt and would like to get them planted for the 110-120 days they need to grow.
Another helpful video! For those who don't know, another way to sprout sweet potatoes is to plant them about half way in dirt in a shallow container in a warm place and keep moist. They can be planted close together and you can use small sized potatoes. I've had better results that way because if I don't remember to change the water in the jar often enough, it rots.
Yes I am also doing this method for the first time right now this year and I am already very pleased with the results so far... but I only make videos on things I'm absolutely positive about and this water method has done me good lol but I'll definitely be recommending the soil method next year too... thanks for the input!
Garden like a Viking!? I’m very disappointed you didn’t separate the slips with a battle axe! 😂 Seriously, great video. I was stuck on the best method for separating my slips till I saw this. Thanks, great job!
Nature truly is amazing. One sweet potato can yield many slips which will yield many more potatoes. This is our first year trying sweet potatoes. We bought slips this year, but after seeing how much I paid for them and now seeing how easy this is we will definitely be doing this next year! Thank you for the knowledge my friend!
Glad I searched for this topic. I have a sweet potato that started sprouting, so i put just the top of it in water. It's growing pretty well. Now I know what to do once it warms up enough here in ID. Thank you!
I made a newbie mistake by buying sweet potato slips...Never again! They arrived in pretty bad shape and when I got them into some water to revive them, they just rotted. Should've known to search Nate's channel instead for guidance on DIY sweet potato slips. I'm going with The Viking's method from now on... Thank you so much Nate! You've always steered me right!
The power of visuals! I was listening for about a minute and I had to laugh- watching was easy & completely explanatory, but if anyone tried to learn from just words, then what's easy would be frought with doubt. I love your channel. I have two big organic sweet potatoes ready to go; one in the water & one in the dirt, right now!
lol I'm the same way if I can SEE it being done then I can fully comprehend it and I like to use as few words as possible to convey the idea!!... thank you!
Thank you for teaching! 🙏🌷 I made a hugel cultur bed in my garden and planted also 4 sweet potatos only to grow the sprouts for the bigger potato bed. They grow well and I will put them into the water in 2 days until they've roots. Before we had our rural property I planted the slips directly into a container and it worked but the potatos were very small. Now I'll try your method.
yes and another thing is the sweet potatoes will only get big if the soil is loose and fluffy... they stay small and hard if the soil is heavy and dense... good luck my friend!
Ooooo-weeeeee! I got about 10 vines like that in my kitchen right now and lot's of smaller ones growing. For anyone who wonders why you clipped those just below the leaf, if you have a sweet potato that has vined out, look just below each leaf and you will see a little row of knots or nubs on the side. That is where roots will start growing from if you clip and stick into the water or dirt. If you go directly into the dirt with them, keep them watered good and not let them dry out until they root. You can esentially make a new plant from every new leaf node if you want more plants.
Viking Bro, I have a question. I'm starting late with the sweet potatoes. Can I run these from Aug and into the fall and winter in a greenhouse? Thank you I'm a new Subscriber. I love these videos. Your's is a definite go to for me now.
Excellent video. Thank you! My slips, in tap water without chlorine are just not producing many or a volume of roots. I had no trouble growing the slips but after plucking them from the sweet potatoes, the roots grow very slowly. Can you suggest a solution to have the slip roots grow faster?
keep the jar on a heat mat at 80-95f and within a few days you'll see roots then within about 10 days they'll be bursting with roots... please watch a few of my recent "shorts" to see this illustrated
I think you just explained a weird issue I've been having for years with my pothos propagation. Most of the time I get extremely slow root development. This year I moved my little operation directly into the living room. (ran out of space) But this propagation is going differently and I couldn't figure out why. It's the HEAT. Although I live in the Arizona desert, I keep my house colder than most and I really do think that it's too cold for my little clones to root well. The spot where I moved them is about 5 degrees warmer than their old area. That's the only difference. I think that my icebox lifestyle isn't great for my little guys. My animal buddies have heating mats, but it never occurred to me that my little green clone army might need more warmth, too. smh
Do my slips have to have roots before I plant them? I bought some slips (quite expensive) and planted them in buckets; it wasn't until that night that it dawned on me that they didn't have roots. That was two days ago, and now they look like they're dead. I have kept them watered well. Thank you.
typically yes you should've taken those and placed into water for several days until you see the roots coming out.... they may still bounce back just be sure to keep them extremely wet for the next week or two
this method works great but yes there'll be a new video coming in the next couple weeks but no worries because the new method makes sprouts in literally half the time!!
I’m sure this is a stupid question but I’ve never done sweet potato slips before… I have a sweet potato submerged in water in my windowsill and it’s growing tiny little roots. But it’s also starting to sprout out of the top dry part, is that OK? Or did I put it in upside down? Thank you for your help!
thats a great question and very common... that means you put it in upside down... but thats ok... once the sprouts on the top have at least 3-4 leaves on them just twist it off at the base and place it in a separate jar of water and in about 4-6 days you'll see roots... once the roots are an inch long you can plant it...
Is there such a thing as starting sweet potatoes in water too early? In Zone 5b could I start a couple of potatoes now for Spring planting slips? Thanks in advance!
now is pretty early!... although you will be able to trim the vines and make more cuttings and they will just continue to grow... so yes you can do it that way if you desire to... but I will be showing a method using soil that is far superior to the water method I showed last year... much much faster and more effective
Good day. Glad i discovered your channel. ? I planted some sweet potato plants (yellowish ones) from a garden center in a pot with other plants last year. At the end of the season the leaves died off so as I removed the dead plants I noticed very large sweet potatoes beneath the soil. They were huge. Are these type sweet potatoes edible? Just wondering.
Thanks.... I started but at a points the sprouts and i noticed it started getting rot at bottom making impossible to stick to class jar.... Can i go ahead plant into the soil?
I’ve got two varieties of sweet potatoes planted and a third one to go. My problem is rabbits! There are two baby ones that ate the tops off all my tomato plants, some of my sweet potato vines and my okra. I’m trying to find creative ways to keep them out of my gardens.
go to the hunting store and get a bottle of fox or coyote urine... dab it on strips of old t-shirt and hang around perimeter of plants and garden... you won't see another one!
@@gardenlikeaviking thank you! I woke up to almost half of my dragon tongue beans eaten down. I don’t want to attack foxes or coyotes to my yard either. I have chickens to keep safe and I have a lot of plants growing around their yard.
yes you can just take a cutting with at least 6 leaves on it and take the bottom two off and stick that in water and let it root....... then they can grow that and it'll produce sweet potatoes
Was my lucky day to find you at Ice Age Farmer, what's the chance of purchasing a sd card of your videos or a written manual for your Great knowledge during the internet shut down.......
thats a really good idea!!!... creating this channel is actually helping me organize my thoughts and experiences into a form that is conveyable to others so I see a manual coming at some point! thank you
You drink a lot of moonshine bro, don't you😂 Jokes aside just got my first sweet potato with slips about 6 in tall now didn't know that about the heat so I'm going to put them in the window now. Thanks
I know I've had to come up with creative ways to make them just because they're so incredibly nutrient dense and they literally last a full year just sitting in the pantry .... try to stretch your culinary horizons my friend
My timing was off this year for sweet potatoes. And in my climate I've got to be on plus have some luck with weather. Mother Nature is still flexing this year here. I DM'd you in IG
