How to grow your own sweet potato slips, using store bought sweet potatoes!

I will show you just how simple it is to grow your own sweet potato slips from store bought sweet potatoes. It will save you tons of money too!

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[jeffcraig]

Can't imagine using that many potatoes. I used one potato last year and had 25 slips from it. Grew 40 lbs of sweet potatoes from using 16 of the slips in the garden.

[kafru]

I just poke 3 toothpicks in my sweet potato in the middle and then place them vertically in a cup of filtered water. After a week or so slips start growing out of the potato. I break them off and place those slips in filtered water. They then grow roots. When the soil is warm enough i place them in the ground and then have my new plants.

[mariadurrence]

I grew sweet potatoes the last year from organic slips that I bought from Johnny’s 50 slips for around $50 plus shipping, I harvested around 100 lbs. I saved 7 of the biggest tubers to propagate this year your video landed in the perfect time, I just followed your method. Thank you Luke!!

[petpawteek]

Man, I love growing sweet potatoes. I bought some slips a few years ago and have grown sweet potatoes for “free” off my own harvest since then❤ Just a note, I let mine grow a little longer on the potato and the roots actually develop on the slips while they are still attached to the potato. So no need for water rooting. That took me by surprise the first year I grew my own so I just potted them into little containers until it was time to plant them out.🍠

[GardenKatt]

Hey Luke, i didnt see if you let folks know that sweet potatoes tend to regrow in the same area from the year before if all the roots arent removed. So plant them where you want to keep planting them. Advice from my 73 year old garden savey mother.

[glendapeters]

My mom always grew her own sweet potato slips and had enough to give away to others. She grew a ton of sweet potatoes! She sometimes started them by partially submerging them in a quart of water and pulling the shoots off and rooting them. I wish I'd have asked her more questions about how she did it!

[bernadettemeyers]

Glad you suggested a heat mat for sprouting sweet potatoes. It seems to speed things up for me here in the Southeastern US. I am seeing roots on my slips on a heat mat in a matter of days.

[dalegaa]

I'm going to try growing sweets in grow bags because I don't have space in my garden. I didn't realize I needed to start them this early so glad you put this video out.

[patcracker]

I planted organic sweet potatoes for the first time last year and ended up harvesting about 25 potatoes. I was so excited, hoping for the same success this year!

[christinekennedy]

I grow sweet potatoes in large containers on my south facing patio, starting them much the same way you described here. They produce bigger potatoes on the patio than in the raised beds, I believe because it's much warmer on the patio. Two years ago when we had a very hot, humid and rainy summer I got the biggest yield ever with one potato weighing nearly 9 pounds. They make a very attractive privacy wall if you trellis the vines too!

[joyevefarmandforge]

I bought two different types of potting soil this year and there was a definite difference. Experimentation is important!

[wannabefarm]

I bought organic sweet potatoes last year started slips this way and it worked great saved the majority of them for starting slips this year.

[richardchaney]

Need part two and part three for this and potatoes. What they look like after and how to plant.

[jenniferbrown]

Very cool. I just bought sweet potatoes this past weekend and planned on doing exactly this.
Last season I found out that I could get my own slips by accidently forgetting that I had a few in my potato basket.
The slips were so pretty too.
God bless!

[deboz]

I learned from my Mom (thanks Mommie❤) how to grow the slips. I put the sweet potatoes suspended in a jar of water with toothpicks. Then sit it in a window sill. I have only bought slips online because of the different varieties I wanted to try. And since I save a tuber from the other varieties, those are now in water and waiting for the growth to begin.

[naturalgardengrows]

Thank you. I live on Vancouver Island, BC. I grew sweet potatoes for the first time last year, from slips I got off of marketplace. I am trying to sprout my own this year. I did buy organic sweet potatoes and it has been a couple of weeks and has done nothing. So your video w as very helpful. I had it in light so I have now moved to darkness and know it can take 6-8 weeks has given me hope ☺️

[jackzampella]

Well I've wanted to grow sweet potatoes for a long time but buying the slips was a little to expensive for me. THIS is the way to go for me. Thanks so much Luke. I'm going out to buy some sweet potatoes and starting medium. Thanks again. 😁

[RedScareClair]

Hey, Luke! Can you do a video on curing sweet potatoes? I grew some purple sweet potatoes last year that were beautiful but then when I tried to cure them they molded 😭

[annmoy]

Thanks for the video, Luke! Right now I'm trying to grow sweet potato slips 3 different ways to see what works for me: 2 in soil like you showed under a heat mat, 1 in water, and 1 wrapped in cloth in a dark location. Hoping for the best. I didn't realize sweet potato slips were so expensive!

[Sadalicious]

this is my first real year doing a garden. I've done random plants here and there but never a full garden. And of course, I dived in head first and am starting everything from seed. Here's to hoping i have my garden set up and completed by the time the plants are ready. HA! What I have loved about starting everything so far is.... everything WANTS to grow if you let it. it's not going to be perfect every time, but it's a very fun journey! Thank you for this video, it's reminded me that I haven't started mine yet. Here's to the 2023 season!