Big changes this week! We have lots of growth!

Beautiful root system formed, that will ensure these slips will grow strong and healthy.

A little bit of bad news

Shortly after last week's update I had to scrap the other sweet potato. Something went wrong with it, it had formed a couple roots but the roots stopped growing and some actually died off. The slips were not getting any water and were drying out.

My only choice was to remove the existing slips and place them directly into water. I cut into the sweet potato to look inside and there was indeed rot.

Fortunately the slips were not dead and immediately started to grow their own roots.

More good news

Not only is the remaining sweet potato thriving, but there appears to be even more slips forming. Last I counted there were a possible 15 slips! Meaning 15 sweet potato plants from one sweet potato!

That's way more slips than I got last year, and I had like 3 or 4 sweet potatoes on the go, so this is one impressive sweet potato! A purple one at that!

That's it for sweet potato news. If you want to follow along on my journey the tag for these posts is #mysweetpotatodream2018. Please leave any thoughts or questions below and as always... I thank you for reading!

Sweet potato 2018 posts

week 1

week 2

Oh and if you are interested, check out my sweet potato journey last year all in one post.

Growing sweet potatoes even in the north