Sweet Potato Vine Indoors

Most of the time the sweet potato plant is planted in the spring.

Sweet potato vine indoors.

If you have space you can simply bring the plants indoors and grow them as houseplants until spring. If you want to grow your sweet potato vines as decorative plants find a small three or four inch seedling pot with good drainage. Get an organic sweet. As a tropical plant it prefers warmer temperatures.

Follow these steps to planting and growing your own sweet potato vine indoors. Plant a sweet potato in water and almost before your eyes it transforms into a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves. Bulb like tubers grow just beneath the surface of the soil. Use an organic sweet potato.

Possible insect problems include sweet potato looper whitefly aphids thrips slugs flea beetles and weevils. When to plant sweet potato vine. Plant the slips in containers. Even better the leaves are edible and tasty.

Overwatering and poor drainage can cause fungal problems such as fusarium wilt root rot or tuber rot. The one season in which it s generally not advisable to plant sweet potato vines is the winter. Once these plants have begun to grow robustly indoors they will be ready to transfer to large mixed containers with other plants. Otherwise there are several easy ways of overwintering a sweet potato vine.

Sweet potato vine winter care. However depending on your growing zone it can be planted at other times of year. Sweet potato vines can be overwintered indoors from tubers or cuttings.