1/26/08

Sweet Potato Vine Cuttings

A few weeks ago, we had a freeze. Temps were in the high 20's for a day, but we still lost some plants which we were foolish enough not to cover with blankets. The sweet potato vine didn't die, but it looked bad, so took it out. It's an ornamental, but it had sweet potatos!

So, I put three cuttings into a cup with water and roots began to form overnight...literally. After a week, the roots looked like this.

So, yesterday I planted the young plants in the planter near the garage door and then mulched them. I anticipate they will do just fine.

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1 comments:

  1. Danielle - yep, some cold temps for us SoCal gardeners. Perhaps you should have been a bit more patient with the tuber from your sweet potato. That's actually the best way to propagate them and if you'd left it in the ground, it would probably started sprouting in no time.

    I have a beautiful chartreuse-leafed one in a big pot on my porch and it got infested with whitefly. I cut off every leaf and now it's popping back. In general, most plants tend to try to revive themselves and tubers with good root systems tend to regenerate quickly.

    I'll be interested in seeing how the water cuttings to. Sometimes roots that start out in water don't make the transition to dirt. Good luck and happy gardening!
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