Around a year ago, a relative gave my mom many small sweet potatoes, it was given by her farmer neighbour due to it's irregular shape and small, it's not good looking enough for sale. Since the quantity was too big, it was distributed among family members. We cooked most of it, but some are too small, peeling the skin was too tedious, so I buried it in a pot. and after around five or six months, I harvested four small sweet potatoes.
During harvesting, a small piece was chopped off, so I buried it back to the pot. And I have seen so many videos that sweet potatoes can be propagated from stem and leaves. So I took additional 2 cuttings from the plants and planted it.
Last week, on first week of June, I "harvested" it again. Ok, this was all for experiment and fun. So, I just make sure I watered the plants, no additional efforts were being done. And I would pluck the leaves when It grew too much. I read somewhere that too many leaves could take the nutrients meant for the tubers.
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| sweet potato plant |
Well, there were too many weeds. So I cleared it first.
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| cleared the weeds |
After that, I pulled the plants. Surprisingly, two out of three plants didn't have any tuber. The one that grew from a chunk of tuber didn't have any sweet potato.
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| the plant grew from sweet potato chunk |
The one and only sweet potato I got was small and around the length of my finger. Hahaha.
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| sweet potato tuber |
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| sweet potato around the length of my finger |
The harvest is very small, so I buried the tuber back and planted another two cuttings (one with leaves on it, another was the one with a chunk of sweet potato).
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| new planting |
After around two weeks (13th June 2026), I went back to observe the growth. The one with chunk of sweet potatoes already grew new leaves. But the sweet potato haven't sprout yet. Will update in another six months i think, provided it is still alive then.
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| after around 2 weeks |
Have fun gardening!
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