Sweet potato vine?

I am trying to cover a wall in my backyard with sweet potato vine this year and I wanted to start all my own. However I know that they do not propagate by seeds, is it possible for me to buy a bunch of cuttings from somehwere? I just dont want to pay $4 a pop for them this spring at the store.

Sweet potato vine?
I don't know where you can buy cuttings. We buy "pure" plants and make our own cuttings. If you get a nice sized plant you can make a dozen or more plants--but they may not be ready in time to cover an entire wall. Give it a try and save some over the winter and in December make your own cuttings. You'll at least have some idea how many you'll need.





You know, of course, you can't get them from sweet potatoes.
Reply:Buy a sweet potato and segment it into as many pieces as you need. They are extremely easy to propagate, in fact an old digger mate of mine used to regularly give me sweet potatoes that grew from the peelings in his compost.





by the way, the leaves make a great addition to your salads
Reply:I get one from the supermarket, plant it in a pot under dirt and keep warm and water. But most sweet potatoes from the grocery store do not have long vines, maybe four feet.





There are plant farms the sell a dozen for around 15 dollars.





(Fred's Plant Farm)
Reply:were do you live . sweat potato is like 2 or 3 lbs per lb but you want to do is set it in a glass holding it up with tooth picks so that just an inch is in water then wen it has a good root system you then plat it in the ground you will only need one like every 4 ft apart .
Reply:xchris had a pretty good answer but if you can find someone who had potato vines you can grow vines from the cuttings too. If you want the variegated kind you'll need to find someone with variegated plants.
Reply:ornamental sweet potato varieties with the decorative leaves are among the easiest to propagate to get new plants.


buy one of each of the types that you are wanting to have.


plant that into a pot with good garden soil and put in a bright warm place. when a plant has a section 6" long cut it. remove the two lowest leaves, place cutting in a glass of water. It will root within a week. put it in a pot of soil.


repeat as needed.


In the fall before the vines have been killed by frost, you can dig up the tubers that will have formed during the summer. dry the tubers for 10 days then store in peat moss in a cool dark room.


you can use the tubers to start new plants in the spring( i can explain that).


I have been harvesting the tubers from ornamental sweet potato vine for a couple of years with excellent success(yes they do make tubers but they are not edible).





don't bother to plant sweet potato until the soil temperatures are above 55 degrees for best results.


if you need more info on cuttings let me know.

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