You can tell if you've picked out a sweet potato that will grow.

Growing sweet potatoes indoors. Plant the slip in a box of moist sand and position in a warm. Move the pot outdoors once the threat of frost has passed. Bury soft tip cuttings directly to the prepared soil:

How to grow sweet potatoes indoors growing basics. All you want is about 1/3 of the sweet potato submerged. Caring for indoor sweet potatoes lighting & temperature.

For a specific date that. Place your sweet potato into the cup. Start with a large sweet potato tuber that hasn’t, preferably, been refrigerated.

Make a hole large enough to cover the roots of your plant or slip. The best way to do this is to fill a large container with a mix of equal parts sand, peat. Insert four or five toothpicks around the perimeter of your sweet potato halves, about halfway between the cut side and the top.

Fill up your chosen cup with enough water for the bottom of the sweet potato to be submerged. Sweet potatoes need loose friable soil. Grow your own sweet potatoes indoors.year round!

Aim for 8+ hours of light per day, but try not to give your plants too intense of light right from the start. If you don't, the water will get pretty. Sweet potatoes are not like regular potatoes and are in fact only distantly related.