A Gardeners Forum Forums General Discussion The House Plant Forum Sweet Potato Vine Question

We rooted one of these in water this summer. We get new leaves and the old ones fall off. Are we watering too much? Its in a west facing window.
Any help on the care of these would be appreciated.

Greg

Is it still in the water. I rooted some pieces and I let it dry out not on purpose but because I forget to water. It is doing good not growing much but surviving.

Mine is in the bathroom so it gets lots of humidity. So the only uggestion I can give is raise the humidity and water when the soil dries. I am watering about every two weeks.

I grew these outdoors a few summers with great success, but when I moved them inside to overwinter they promptly died out.

Was this grown from a sweet potato, or is it one of the ornamental plants the nurseries are selling these days?

I always thought it was ornamental.

Tamara - I have grown some very nice vines by rooting actual sweet potatoes, and thos vines did produce more sweet potatoes!

It was from an ornamental vine. It is in the dirt already...I just water it when it dries out....maybe i do it too much!

Greg

I hope someone can help you, Greg - I just never had luck bringing the ornamental ones inside.

I told Toposh that I'd post my sweet potato vines that I started from a potato, but the picture I have isn't very good unfortunately. I do have a picture of the harvest from that vine though... and this was growing in a very small and narrow windowbox. Imagine what I might have had if it was in a larger pot!



Gotta grow these babies again this summer!