Re: Ipomoea tuber propagation

Margaret
Just how long does it take for sprouts to come off the tuber once you have
put it in sandy soil, and you don't suggest bottom heat?
Penny
-----Original Message-----
From: Margaret Lauterbach <mlaute@micron.net>
To: seeds-list@eskimo.com <seeds-list@eskimo.com>
Date: Thursday, December 10, 1998 10:19 AM
Subject: 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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