Winterizing sweet potato vines by cuttings.

Sweet potato vine inside. Typically, in my container gardens the vines do not develop much of an underground. The bottom of the sweet potato should be sitting in water. Set them in a jar until they start to grow roots.

Place your jar in a window to receive at least 4 hours of indirect light every. Wireworms are known to eat through the flesh of the sweet potatoes and leave numerous holes in their wake. Holes appear inside sweet potatoes due to wireworms.

Make sure your sweet potato will be 1/2 in water and 1/2 exposed to air. Set the sweet potato inside a jar of water. Take a sweet potato and place it in a cup of water or a vase.

Add 3 inches of soil to the base of the plant when the potato's vine reaches 6 inches long. Alternatively, allow the tuber to sit on the bottom of a glass or jar, and add water so. In a large bowl, drizzle diced sweet potatoes with 2 tablespoons olive oil.

Then you will fill the jar with distilled water. To keep it secure, use toothpicks to prop it up on the. Ipomoea batatas, or sweet potato vine, thrives in hot, tropical climates and is an ornamental foliage plant often used as a foil for flowering displays.

When bringing my sweet potato vines inside for the winter i take a different approach. Depending on the size, you may have to prop. Unlike ground planted potatoes that immediately multiply, sweet potatoes need to grow brand new plants.