Re: Ipomoea tuber propagation

At 08:57 PM 12/9/98 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 12/9/98 12:56:14 PM Eastern Standard Time,
>mlaute@micron.net writes:
>
><< I use a  shallow plastic pan-like flat (it is made for growing plants, but
> is not pot-shaped), fill it with sand and get it wet, but not sopping wet,
> and lay the tuber in the sand, covering most of it.  I started my shoots in
> the greenhouse (min. temp 55), and let them go.  The shoots become pretty
> vines before you set them out, but they've got quite a head start.  If I
> order shoots or slips from a commercial supplier, I'll get small ones in
> April.  Too little, too late.  I would not use a prop. mat for these.  Good
> luck, Margaret >>
>
>Margaret,
>
>Thanks again for the additional information!  But, I have another question.
>Do you root these shoots/slips before putting them out?  I've heard that you
>just put them in a glass of water and they root easily?  Is this what you do?
>
>Karen Ernst
>
When I broke them off the tuber, some came with chunks of tuber, roots
obviously penetrating the chunk.  Others just came off.  I put these shoots
directly in the garden soil.  They rooted rather quickly.  I wouldn't put
them in water because that would form water roots and force them to make a
transition that's unnecessary and perhaps setting them back from rooting in
soil.  Margaret
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