2022 Giant Sweet Potato attempt, 1 slip!(New total weight record!)(Hawaiian Sunshine) - 170 days

Here's my giant/huge Sweet Potato attempt this year! Using 1 slip & 1 entire raised bed! (120cm x 120cm x 30cm) & 170 days of growth! Variety: Hawaiian Sunshine (white skin, purple flesh)
I can say this was an extreme success!!! Holy moly! So in 2020 i attempted a large Sweet Potato root/harvest(150 days, variety: Northern Star), and got a single root at 3.5kg & a total weight short of 10kg! So this time, I was hoping to either grow a single root over 4kg or a total weight at least over 8kg! I didn't get a large volleyball sized root, but a total weight of 18.7kg is absolutely INSANE!!! xD :'D
Technically i harvested this 4 days early,(so 166 days actually) but it's just 4 days + we are scheduled to have a week of rain(which has just started the night of harvest) so, decided to harvest it now! xD
I was worried about this harvest as the leaves were still pretty green, the white variety for me is the worst one, you really have to wait for the leaves to turn yellow, unlike the other varieties, I've harvested this variety in bags(2018, 19, 20 & 21) around 120 days and some produced absolutely nothing xD But I've got a harvest from a bag from this variety so it's not the size, just high nitrogen priority! + i was also worried about some Sweet Potatoes being eaten as a mouse was housing this garden bed -_- it was pulling out a lot of dirt, but it seems nothing was eaten so I'm glad, phew!
Speaking of having leaves that are still pretty green, i don't think this plant reached the heaviest it could have been(could it have reached over 20kg before turning yellow?), but 170 days is pretty long already + i think going any further might just harden the roots and make them stringy, the single giant from 2020 attempt i got was pretty normal, no strings!(150 days) so i think only big ones that are really old (over 200 days?) Is why they get stringy, hmmm!
Anyway, gonna give these out to family & friends, possibly neighbors too! My next giant Sweet Potato attempt, i will use Northern Star variety again, as it seems only that one has a higher storing capacity per root! & i love me some hugeee Sweet Potatoes to harvest, it's extremely exciting & to break a personal record! :D
Here's all my attempts! i will make sure to update them all! :
2020 attempt: • 2020 Giant Sweet Potat...
Anyways, thank you for watching, i hope you enjoy! If you like the video don't forget to like, share and subscribe to see more of my gardening content! :D
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[@carlynwilliams7222]

This is the best potato harvest i have ever seen,wonderful.

[@rizesgardening]

Thank you!

[@Roheryn100]

I enjoyed the excavation ! 😁 What fascinates me is the brute strength required by the roots to push that densely packed soil aside to grow the tuber. Just hydrostatic pressure, I guess…😳

[@rizesgardening]

Thanks for watching! Sweet potato is quite an impressive root, i even had 1 slip that i left near the footpath grow and lift up the concrete slab! 😂

[@teddymuhumuza5213]

I appreciate the fact that you reply to every comment, thank you. Otherwise congs for the harvest. I give you a like for the humility to respond.

[@ninfadoyle1450]

Wow! All from one slip! Awesome!

[@georgewages8539]

for a person of few words you sure grew the heck out of them purple sweet potatoes

[@artport7]

Please tell me about your fertilizer program for this variety...It is my favorite sweet potato variety and I would like to be able to grow them successfully as you have here. Do you feed them at all?? I noticed you said something about high nitrogen priority. Can you explain that ? I thought that tubers needed more potassium than nitrogen...What am I missing? any helpful tips will be much appreciated...I love watching all of your potato reveals... It is just amazing!! Thank you for sharing them with us.

[@JRM_808]

Brah! Best harvest video I’ve ever encountered!

[@rizesgardening]

Thank you! :D

[@lamprinedatsika6292]

great video ! amazing!!!! I was impressed by the method you took out the sweet potatoes. well done ! I understood that you know the way well. for me it is the video of the year!!! congratulations!!! I greet you from Greece. 😅

[@derektanabe2429]

Hi, I first want to congratulate you on a great job. Watching your video has inspired me to try to grow sweet potatoes, I hope to be successful as you. I have a question, do you pick some of the leaves as it grows for thinning out and if you do, do you eat then raw and/or cooked them? Thank you for a great video, keep up the great work gardening.

[@rizesgardening]

Thank you! Glad to hear! I usually just pick the leaves accordingly or whenever we will use it for a meal! We usually cook them, not sure if they can be eaten raw, but they're very tasty!

[@morllenzondani66]

Thats amazing,welldone mr farmer👏👏👏

[@dalepalmer1101]

Congratulations on your haul nice looking sweet potatoes I'll give you a hint to dig them out. Use a hard brissel paint brush it helps with bunches like that.

[@deborahthompson5041]

I am going to try these sweet potatoes. Are they tasty. I did purple ones this year. Great harvest. WOW. Thanks for sharing.

[@rizesgardening]

They sure are tasty! Hope you get a good yield!

[@leslietolar2226]

Great harvest 👏

[@rizesgardening]

Thank you!

[@cestmoikim6514]

Beautiful dirt--beautiful harvest!

[@comfortonu7489]

Wow good harvest Thanks for sharing

[@rizesgardening]

Thank you!

[@cherylcummings1303]

Wow😳👍🏽 I cant wait to start my sweet potato slips I have the purple and the okinawan sweet potatoes! I’ve grown them before but just started back gardening up again since all the crazy covid situation! Anyway awesome!👍🏽

[@rizesgardening]

Ahh good tasty varieties! Enjoy starting the garden up again, always fun to grow plants 😁 and thank you!

[@bencyber8595]

oh , Okinawan sweet potato , originate from where ..

[@cherylcummings1303]

@@bencyber8595 oh just to let u know my grandpa is full Okinawan!!

[@mimibeniga]

Excellent results in both sweet potato vids. Thanks for sharing. Did you fertilize? With what? How often? Your input would be greatly appreciated. Peace to you.

[@rizesgardening]

Yup i used fertilizer, you can use any organic ones as long as it's a balanced N/P/K feed, application rate depends on how strong it is, once the plant has grown a bit, 1-2 months i follow it up with a fertilizer high in K!

[@jolanda9947]

one heck of a harvest

[@rizesgardening]

Thank you!

[@vandienalbacite9614]

Wow, what a bountiful harvest!!!

[@hermeniageli2605]

🤗

[@hermeniageli2605]

Wa

[@hermeniageli2605]

Vaaaaßwwwwwaaaaaaaaaaaaava

[@hermeniageli2605]

Awaaawwwwawwvaaa

[@hermeniageli2605]

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[@alhadiqa5611]

Hi, congratulation for your good and hard work. Your work had inspired me to start to grow as well, but I have some questions. 1. What is the size of your raised bed (Height, Leangth, Width)? 2. Have you use any of industrial fertiliser? Thanks.

[@rizesgardening]

Thank you! And i'm happy to have inspired you 🙂 The garden bed was 120cm x 120cm x 30cm & by industrial do you mean synthetic? then no just organic ones!

[@laurenmariebishop8409]

Good job!

[@rizesgardening]

Thank you!

[@carlottawalker6185]

Watching your video had me on pins and needles. Please tell us how you did this and what fertilizer you used.

[@rizesgardening]

Well nothing that wild really! Just the 1 whole raised bed for the 1 slip, topped it up with new compost, added mulch, buried a few vines while it was growing along the bed, and left it in for a very long time! as for fertilizer i start it off with a balanced N/P/K feed, then later on feed it again with fertilizer higher on the Potash side! Both organic fertilizers(you can use synthetic too, it just hurts the soil in the long run so i wouldn't suggest it) & a lot of rain through the whole growing season! + I think i just got lucky this year cause my 2020 attempt didn't even pass 10kg & i did the same steps 😂

[@rizesgardening]

If you always end up with a huge top continuously growing till the harvest date & roots are skinny, too much nitrogen is usually the issue! & Always make sure when planting, they have enough room that they don't cross over, at least not too much with each other. For this attempt i made sure there's no competition around!

[@johnlim6108]

@@rizesgardening when you say a long time, how many months?

[@rizesgardening]

@@johnlim6108 170 days/5 & a half months!

[@EverettJohn7]

I'm really impressed with your sweet potato Harvest. I think your video could get tens of thousands of views if you redid it and actually spoke during your video and tell exactly what you did from start to finish how you prepared the soil, how you fertilized and when, how much water, how much sun per day and anything else. I hope your station does well. Please consider making that new video with your Pleasant personality guiding Farmers around the world.

[@juliesilvaggio804]

Wow!

[@savaiitamoua7148]

Great Job!! Great Video!! What month did you grow your Kumara please ? Can you talk about how you grew them please? Once again congratulation from New Zealand.

[@barringtonsmith9147]

Wow!!🍠

[@nomochances777]

Subbed ... Good vid! Do you add pot ash to the soil... what do you do for potassium and phosphorous? Thanks:))

[@rizesgardening]

Thanks! Not pot ash, i just use organic fertilizer high in P & K :)

[@charlenewoodgett9028]

Nice harvest,

[@rizesgardening]

Thanks!

[@jackicomber8534]

What an amazing harvest!

[@rizesgardening]

Thanks!

[@FlavorsandTextures]

That was a very good harvest!

[@rizesgardening]

Thanks! :)

[@johnlim6108]

This seems like Hollywood magic. I have never seen one like this. Please share with us how you do it. What kind of soil? Please. Thanks 😊 🫂 🙏.

[@rizesgardening]

Tell me about it, i was surprised too 😂 I just took care of it like my other sweet potatoes pretty much 😂 this bed the soil is a mix of a lot, the original soil & compost back from 2011-2012, occasionally topping up over the years when the soil shrinks/lowers, before planting this i prepared the bed with new compost, nothing too expensive tho, & used mulch to cover up, basically it!

[@johnlim6108]

@@rizesgardening thanks.

[@coldp77]

That’s awesome!!!😮

[@rizesgardening]

Thank you!

[@marilynbarrett1804]

That is a harvest to remember. What caused the fungus? Will it harm the plant or the soil?

[@rizesgardening]

Definitely! The bed was pretty shaded and we've had a really really wet Summer + the bed is pretty old so the fungus kinda grew out of control with all that 😂 I don't think this type was harmful, any form of fungus in the garden indicates a healthy living soil, generally, but for it to be growing ON the bed means it's breaking it down faster, which i don't want so i had to remove it afterwards 😅

[@РитаЛюбимова-ъ2ъ]

Удивительный урожай поздравляю! 🌿👍А сколько черенков вы посадили на этом участке? И сколько дней прошло с момента высадки до сбора урожая?.

[@chouyang3197]

Dear Rize’s gardening, I love to watch ur digging ur sweet potatoes. Can u let me know where can I buy the slips/vine for that Hawaiian Sunshine from? I was looking for all over but don’t know where can I order it not the sweet potato but the slips. Can u please let know? Thanks 😊

[@rizesgardening]

I bought the slips from Bunnings, it's an Australian warehouse store! I'm not sure what other places you can find the slips, but technically if you do find the sweet potato it's self, it's pretty easy to grow & get slips that way

[@sarahvenson4906]

U can grow slips your self from any potato u like. Plant the potatoes in the ground when it comes up get the slips from it. Or plant the potatoe in water like you do plants. Flowers.. cut the slip off as it grows.. Google it also. How to grow potatoes slips. Good luck A Mississippi farmer daughter

[@feffe4036]

Nice. Where in the world is this? I want to grow sweer potatoes here in Sweden but the season is too short. Are these hardier to lower temps?

[@rizesgardening]

Thanks! I live in Australia! I'm not too sure if they are, you'd probably want to plant a faster/earlier maturing variety, for me the orange Beauregard(which is a vine type) matures first, around 90-100 days, these bush types(Hawaiian Sunshine & Northern Star) need more days to mature You could start them indoors first to give them a head start, or possible grow them in a greenhouse so you could have both an earlier start & later harvest 🤔

[@jackicomber8534]

​@@rizesgardening where in Oz? Qld?

[@rizesgardening]

@@jackicomber8534 NSW

[@ฒ.ผู้เฒ่าเข้าครัว]

Amazing

[@rizesgardening]

Thanks!

[@enochsanders1239]

Thank God. A nice video

[@blessedone8147]

😳Beautiful.

[@AdeniyiDamilareDada]

Fantastic!

[@rizesgardening]

Thank you!

[@reneebrown2968]

This is an absolutely awesome amount of sweetpotatoes from only one slip. Is this the norm for this variety?

[@rizesgardening]

Not really sure 😂 Because usually this variety isn't the top yielding out of the 3 i grow, but it is the first time using a entire bed for it, so! 🤷‍♂

[@peaceandlove5214]

Hi,would you please tell me how many times you can cut the green part (leaves and vines) because I want new fodder varieties I was told that the leaves and vines are very good for silage.

[@rizesgardening]

Hi there! You can keep on cutting the leaves & stems over the whole growing season! Sweet potatoes will keep on growing & growing as long as the temperature is warm!

[@peaceandlove5214]

@@rizesgardening many thanks

[@samatutahi4032]

What was the process for this super slip did you get the roots big before planting?

[@Isaiahdaslayah]

hi where did you get your potato slips from ? Such a productive variety

[@rizesgardening]

Hi there! I bought my slips from Bunnings(Australian household warehouse) tho for the last couple of years i've just been using harvested sweet potatoes for slips! Tbh i am very surprised, cause usually this variety doesn't exactly deliver half the time 😅

[@samatutahi4032]

How did you prepare the slip mate before you planted it

[@charlescoker7752]

Tip water the bed the day before you plan to dig. Soil will be easier to dig.

[@hnamahnamtinkunga7396]

A van tha tak Eem ❗ Mizoram tan a tha lutuk Good Luck 🤞

[@nomochances777]

i harvested mine to early ... about 100 days and i also planted to many slips i think... What should i do with the potatoes that are skinny and have no white skin:/ ??? THey are undeveloped and already out of ground... Do i throw them back like fish or compost them?

[@rizesgardening]

Too many slips may have been the main cause, you should still get something decent at 100 days. Since they're already out the ground, if they're big enough to peel they should be okay for eating, but if they're that skinny, you can probably try store them away for next seasons planting, sweet potatoes in the compost won't exactly decompose(unless the whole outside/skin is removed) it might remain as it is and sprout again 😂

[@nomochances777]

@@rizesgardening Thanks for the advice; God bless:))

[@alannatolentino5513]

Where did you buy the slip?

[@rizesgardening]

The plant was from Bunnings, an Australian warehouse store!

[@horiyatawnatiya4504]

👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍

[@aussiepressconferences.4755]

That bird in the background shits me.

[@chhengchhay9740]

I’m would like to have some of those purple sweet potato stamps so I can grow them at my place too please.

[@rizesgardening]

I don't sell slips or any plant seeds unfortunately!

[@1Ggirl1959]

Don't be cheap get a go pro so you can use 2 hands!!!

[@rizesgardening]

I have a tripod now 😭😂

[@paulavang2987]

Sweet purple potato is number one sweetie, my favorite sweets potato’s is this kinds I try to grow one time but don’t know how, so after platings never grows up what website that we will know how to contact you to tech up how to plant thiis kinds of sweets potatoes l would be happy to invest money to take classes from you, if you open classes for us to learn please provide more information I am very interesting and where is this farm,? What country, I live in u s a thank you for sharing.

[@rizesgardening]

Hi there, to be honest the purple sweet potato doesn't always produce well for me over the years i've been growing them compared to other varieties, this harvest was a very big surprise for me, we did have a lot of rain so it could be that 🤷I don't have a website or run classes, but you'll find a lot of videos on KZbin on how to plant & grow sweet potatoes tho! Once the weather warms up you just plant the sweet potato/s in the ground & wait for the sprouts/slips to appear, they can take up to a month depending, once slips have grown, that's your set of stems to grow sweet potatoes! And this isn't a farm, It's just my backyard! 😂 I live in Australia!

[@EverettJohn7]

I have an idea for another challenge you can try. See how many kilograms of sweet potatoes you can grow in that one bed which is approximately 2 m by 2 m. I practice intensive gardening and find good results for how much space I have.

[@palych8502]

What is this variety?

[@rizesgardening]

Hawaiian Sunshine

[@kentpham6835]

Hi ! Are you live in USA.can you sale one pound of Hawaii sweet potato.if you are can .please let me know. I’m well send money for you

[@rizesgardening]

I don't live in the USA and i don't sell anything 😅 sorry!

[@willie9767]

I think u r to early 1 u cut d vine that's for d potatoes u destroyed the potatoes

[@beba108]

Dali si čuo za vile za kopanje.