A Quicker, Easier Way to Make Your Own Sweet Potato Slips (Sprouts)

[@AmandaSmith-jd2gi]

I’ve always loved your videos, but bringing in Noah added an extra layer of joy.

[@badmoonrising8275]

Even better way of making slips I learned from an expert. Bury the sweet potato barely completely under the dirt when the slips come out of the dirt just pull them out. Being in the dirt makes the roots already formed very strong, plant them directly in the ground from there. I am going to try vitamin C before burying next year though thank you for that.

[@juneshannon8074]

Love your son. Congrats on bringing him up well.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@blackbones15]

Thanks for the tips, I had done it all wrong last year. You have a beautiful boy by the way, and I'm glad you included him in educating us, as I'm sure you are on lockdown or shelter in place so he's got no school. Good job dad, keep him educated!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you so much!

[@melviasheppard8466]

Knowledge is power, gardening makes Noal a SUPERHER💝

[@NextLevelGardening]

@@melviasheppard8466 yes!

[@jeaninecelayeta3370]

You have such a great relationship with your son. It’s so great to see. Great info too.

[@cindyhewatt3406]

Wow, I have never know that’s how you grow sweet potatoes 🍠, now I got find one quick. Noah is such a natural helper!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thanks Cindy❤

[@sharonbrowne2311]

This is perfect timing. I've got two sweet potatoes from Christmas that I didn't cook that have amazing sprouts on them and I didn't know what to do with the sprouts...now I do! Thank you!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Perfect! You're welcome. And you're ahead of the game.

[@ykratz100]

Your son is so handsome & has personality. as well. You should have him on more often, makes us ole ladies smile. Thanks for all the info.

[@js5866]

Beautiful to see you and your son

[@kitiefinnegan2003]

WHAT A CUTIE!!! im trying this method..thank you !

[@nikitajaquez8985]

Thanks for this :) I did one vertical with the toothpicks and one laying horizontal. Both are sprouting great but the one laying on its side is actually making a lot more sprouts top and bottom! Love your videos, thanks

[@NextLevelGardening]

Good to know! Thanks for sharing!

[@smhollanshead]

That is my experience as well. Put the sweet potatoes in potting mix for the fastest sprouting response.

[@joseluisavalos5160]

Great idea of how to grow sweet potatoes... greetings from Mexico😀😉

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@cherielacroix3046]

I put a sweet potato in water with the tooth picks about three weeks ago. I was wondering why I haven’t seen any roots yet. So glad I watched your video, I will definitely be trying this tomorrow. Thank you! and your son is adorable!

[@NextLevelGardening]

It can take 2 months but maybe try the vitamin c just in case.

[@Brineytoes]

I just soaked one in the vitamin C wate (will get more sweets tomorrow), then laid it down lengthwise on a bed of potting mix like you did to get rooted slips. I will grow my sweets in a Rubbermaid tub or two.

[@MerwinARTist]

I grow a lot of sweet potatoes .. and try to learn as much as possible about them .. never heard this before .. but you can be sure I'm trying this! Thank you!!! 💖

[@NextLevelGardening]

Me either but I can't wait to see also!

[@grape1829]

Hey you're not only good at growing plants, you're good at growing kids, too! Noah is awesome!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Awww. Thanks! I'm pretty proud of him.❤

[@LanaiDebbie]

Noah was so great at the end of this! Great video all around. I’ve had a purple sweet potato in water for a couple of days I think I will take it out and try the vitamin C tip...thanks!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you!

[@gingermitchell5499]

I soaked 2 sweet potatoes in vit c put one in water and one in soil. By golly they are sprouting. So far 2 sweet potatoes over 12 slips. I have 1 non vit c soaked sweet potatoe in water and two in soil. They aren't sprouting at all yet. Been a month. Thank you for this video.

[@simonmcdermott-johnson8585]

Hey thanks for this informative vid on sweet potatoes! I’m going to put one of my organic sweet potatoes out to stud :) according to your specifications, in the morning. Many thanks for all your videos. You are one of my trusted sources not only for knowledge but also your SoCal locale. BTW I had one sprout a few weeks ago on my counter and I went ahead and planted the whole potato in a large planter on my porch. It is growing but slowly. Hoping for the vines to grow up on a trellis eventually, and looking forward to your method which may produce 2 for 1 !

[@NextLevelGardening]

Hey Simon I really appreciate you saying that! Let me know how the one that sprouted on the counter does just being put in dirt. I know my cousin grew 1 that way and it did fine. Every time I've tried that they rot. Good luck!

[@knuckle47]

Well, I wish you lived nearby...great video once again.... your garden series is just first class information. Thank you 🙏

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you Luthier. Where are you again?

[@knuckle47]

California Garden TV Pennsylvania

[@NextLevelGardening]

@@knuckle47 My grandpa is from there and I have family in Canonsburg. 😀

[@forced4motorsports]

I use the root in soil method. I cut the slips off about 2 inches up from the seed potato and drop them in a glass with water and they usually root in a few days; especially if you ensure there are little white nubs at the base of your cut. After the first harvest, you can cover the seed potato completely as it rots into the soil. The vines will keep on growing and can be perpetually harvested, rooted and planted for as long as you keep the parent slips alive. I've even taken some right off of vines out in the garden and transplanted them. I grow them for the greens (chicken fodder) more than the potatoes.

[@JoRoBoYo]

mine just rot in the soil 😅😂

[@fishnlady]

Your son is Awesome! And he is blessed with your handsome looks. Great video and I am watching it at just the right time. I have slips rooted and ready but was wondering how and where to plant them. Thanks for all your great information.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Why thank you☺ full sun. Give them lots of space.

[@karenlatham4053]

My slips are huge! One is seriously at least a foot and a half tall. They're so pretty lol. I really like the idea of cutting my sweet potato in half and submerging the slips while they're still stuck to the sweet potato I guess I'm going to try it.

[@deecooper1567]

Great info about VIT C 👍. I’m going to try growing my own this year. I make my own dog food & use these or pumpkin for their fiber. I grew kale, Swiss card & collards(?) last year & froze till needed. You both have a gentle easy to listen to voice👍👍. See ya next time 🥦🥕🥬🌶

[@megacharlie2005]

Thanks so much. I started my potatoes after that video and was wondering about sweet potatoes. I’ve already got the seed sweet potatoes in water. I’ll try adding the vitamin C. I may go buy a whole organic potato and get that started per this video, too.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Good luck!

[@AsintheDaysofNoah]

Cute kid! Thanks guys!

[@papirojo4228]

I have two different sweet potatoes I bought at sprouts last mont and the slips are growing nicely. I also planted slips into one of my raised beds last November. I’m hoping to eat lots of sweet potatoes between July and spring 2021.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Good luck!

[@rickrarick746]

Great helper. I have to wait till I can go shopping. Thanks

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thanks... I know right?

[@sandranorman4572]

Super cute kid!

[@TheHappyWhisk]

Thank you for making this video, I'm growing potatoes and yams for the first time this year and I found your channel. You do a great job teaching.

[@mermaidswhimsy8601]

Thanks for sharing the Vitamin C tip. I have sweet potatoes with 6 weeks and no sprouts. I am so mad I paid good money for those at Home Depot.

[@cliff5240]

Nice job!! Stay safe and healthy!!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thanks. You too!

[@cliff5240]

@@NextLevelGardening Hoping too. Indiana is going on lock down tomorrow night. My son tested positive for Corona virus last week but is nearly recovered now -- God is Great!!

[@NextLevelGardening]

@@cliff5240 oh wow...that's good to hear though🙏🙏

[@Hannahcode1]

My mom would do this for lovely house plants.

[@lindaandmurraymcgill9448]

Thanks guys.

[@NextLevelGardening]

You're welcome!

[@PatricesProjects]

I have been growing sweet potatoes from a sweet potato I purchased 4 years ago. Each year I either suspend a sweet potato in water, or put some of the smaller ones in some shallow potting soil and grow the slips for myself, and a few for my sister.

[@NextLevelGardening]

That's awesome! Sustainability!

[@smhollanshead]

Which way works better?

[@PatricesProjects]

@@smhollanshead putting them in soil. They already have roots and you can harden them off in the growing medium before removing them from the sweet potato.

[@carolynprice5218]

would a buffered vitamin C powder work also? It's components are: ascorbic acid, calcium carbonate, magnesium carbonate, and potassium carbonate. Loved video, thx!

[@kelleymason6110]

Do you find this works better with a larger/fatter sweet potato or a smaller one? Thanks, I love your videos and BOTH your channels!

[@farmerbob4554]

Thanks to you and Noah for the informative video (Noah needs his own channel -like gardening for kids or something). I think it would have been interesting to do a second sweet potato without the ascorbic acid soak just to test the efficacy of the process. I grew sweet potatoes (Beauregard ) a couple years ago from purchased slips (you’re right they ain’t cheap) and got a great crop but they didn’t taste very good (mealy and not very sweet). I was told later that commercial growers go through a lengthy curing process at varying temperatures and humidity before they get to the consumer. I’m going to try this at home as well. I’ll run a blind control just for fun. I’m really happy you’re including Noah and Tammy in your videos - very talented extended family. Looks like we’ve seen the end of the rains here in So Cal. I’ve got head high weeds where veggies should be growing. Maybe a video on cover crops at some point in the future? Thanks again.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you. Yes he does! I would have tried more potatoes if I had them but with the lockdown I just used what I had.

[@NextLevelGardening]

I did a video on cover crops back in November I think. Preparing the soil for Winter or something like that.

[@farmerbob4554]

California Garden TV Got it. I’ll check it out - thanks.

[@cocinandoconlillie5062]

Thank you for your great teaching videos!

[@deborahpennington6860]

I have the powdered Citric Acid so I'm wondering as to how much to use in the soak water? Thanks for video

[@MollyMcBooter]

“Blop, blop, whooOoa” 😂 Thanks for posting this, just got 3 organic ones last week that have little sprouts and would love to try to grow some of my own.

[@NextLevelGardening]

🤣🤣 ... Perfect. You're ahead of the game!

[@rosehavenfarm2969]

We're at week two of our SP slip making. Three of five potatoes now have little roots. Two of them I put in a paper bag and put the bag in a warm dark shelf (it's worked before...). But as we very much want as many SP's to store this fall as we can grow, we are soaking the two remaining SP's in the ascorbic acid solution as recommended. I won't be able to set them out until about Memorial Day here in zone 5b, so we have a bit of time. Here's hoping for a large harvest for us all!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Nice. Yes good luck!

[@mnp5404]

Interesting! Is there a follow-up video on how this worked out?

[@MrTitanscout]

Hey bud, do you plant the sweet potato slips on the bottom of the container, filling it up with soil as it grows, like tomatoes, or do you plant them at soil level? Which method will produce more results?

[@marathon1951]

I have one of each, a white sweet potato growing slips near the top and a garnet growing slips beneath the waterline...going to leave them alone and see. been 6 weeks

[@dasroberts6811]

Can't wait to try it. Thanks for the tip. Can you post the link to where you got this tip from?

[@NextLevelGardening]

Just posted. You beat me to it!😉

[@dasroberts6811]

@@NextLevelGardening LOL!

[@CITRUSCITRUS-ze7yr]

AWESOME

[@OfficialAndreaHelms]

So do you cut off the sprout with the roots and plant that??

[@susannemurray7416]

When should this ideally be done and when should they be planted? Im in Scotland 😊

[@ReallyGottaTap]

Oops! Have mine sprouting in water - upside down!! Will fix this promptly. Thank you!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Lol. Easy mistake!

[@lory6605]

Your son is so cool !!!

[@NextLevelGardening]

Thank you! I think so too.

[@shuumai]

How important is it for the source sweat potato to be organic? I mean, in terms of them propagating non-GMO plants.

[@Leiliaeli21]

Hi! Thank you for this video! I’ve been trying to plant my sweet potatoes the same way as a potato and not getting any results... now I know why... TvT So, if they are not from the same family as potatoes... do you plant them on the bottom of the container filling it up with soil as it grows like with regular potatoes or should I plant them on the top of the container from the get go? I’ve been looking for the video where you continue with this experiment but couldn’t find it... ^^’

[@nanarose3496]

Great video. Noah is a bit of “son” shine.

[@nisaford]

I modified the method by soaking the sweet potatoes in lemon water instead of using the citric acid tablets. They sprouted the next day.

[@thegentlemanreturned]

5:24 Is anyone else worried about what sounds like a Geiger counter going haywire? :P

[@kelleymason6110]

Your son is so cute

[@GarySchiltz]

Hey, why don't you update the video to say whether the ascorbic acid seemed to make the process faster? Surely you used a control (no ascorbic acid)?

[@FFFsister]

Well I did this with a sweet potato that I got from the food bank Yes the food bank because we're poor it was just regular by the way that sweet potato must have been organic because it grew or if I back the spray coating

[@Whale_Chum]

Or you can avoid all that by putting them in good soil about 3-4” deep. Lay them on their sides, end to end. Once they sprout, snap-off the already-rooted slips and plant them. No toothpicks, no changing water, watching water levels, no ascorbic acid treatment, no blender, or glasses everywhere. (And no standing water for mosquitoes) I suggest using the smaller sweet potatoes to make your slips. You can do this in a plastic tub. Then you can simply transplant your slips into containers, grow bags, or in your garden. If in containers or grow bags, plant just one, no more than two slips per container. Otherwise you will just harvest smaller sweet potatoes.

[@ingridjohnson8]

Ok I think I have an alien potatoe. Are the roots and leaves supposed to come out of the same end???? my sprouts are two feet tall coming out the bottom with the roots.

[@susanberlin1747]

...and you can crush the Vitamin C pills with the side of a spoon if you don't have a blender, having first split them with the edge of the spoon. Trying this now!

[@melviasheppard8466]

Will the sweet potatoes grow in containers ? If so, I have to build cages to protect them from the rabbits.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Yes I'm going to be growing mine in containers

[@melviasheppard8466]

@@NextLevelGardening THANKS so much.

[@morrisjensen3172]

I s there a follow up video to this, please?

[@morrisjensen3172]

Is that a yes or a no?

[@madgeharris3476]

Where do I get the vitamin c tablets?

[@NextLevelGardening]

I got mine on Amazon

[@jjjohn5914]

If your sweet potatoes wont sprout it is because commercial growers spray them with a anti sprouting chemical. It can be removed by giving your sweet potatoes a ascorbic acid bath, as mentioned, for 15 minutes then rinsing. I use 2 tsp in a half gallon of water. You could also use crushed vitamin C pills as per this video..

[@KatherineRoseArt]

Are you going to make a followup video on this soon? I have a couple growing myself. I actually had 3 but for whatever reason one of them suddenly went rotten (man it stank bad toolol).

[@NextLevelGardening]

Yes I will. Half of mine rotted and I cut that part off

[@mammacass5311]

How did these sweet potatoes grow for you?

[@ernestoginebra9651]

I never see a video when you harvest.

[@lory6605]

Who was it garden answers??

[@NextLevelGardening]

No I have the link in the description

[@زهرة_الأوركيد]

Do not kill two birds with one stone. You may say kill 2 snakes ...that is better ... i love birds🌷❤

[@mikecoates8647]

Just out of curiosity, what is "expensive"? I get them for around 60¢ a slip. What are the prices like around the rest of the country?

[@smhollanshead]

Where do you get your slips? I can’t find them.

[@mikecoates8647]

@@smhollanshead I get them from work. We have a supplier that we get them from. I'll have to see who it is

[@DeneF]

No children were harmed in the making of this strange experiment. Lol.

[@NextLevelGardening]

Lol

[@ragheadand420roll]

Ascorbic acid is made from black mold from gmo 😟✌🏻🇺🇸

[@Ghost-dz4fl]

You look like you are in a submarine

[@geowallace9758]

Far FAR quicker in the ground to get the slips. Stroner and healthier. Just my thoughts.

[@DeneF]

So, do you still call real sprouts sprouts? Very confoosing cus. Lol.

[@NextLevelGardening]

I think they are interchangeable