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Trailing Black sweet potato in the GardenTags plant encyclopedia

Ipomoea batatus 'Bright Ideas Black'

 

Trailing Black sweet potato

'Bright Ideas Black' is a trailing variety that produces numerous white flowers throughout the whole season. Sweet potato is not closely related to potato. Sometimes known by the common name yam, sweet potato should not be confused with Dioscorea which are also known as yams but belong to a different plant family. There are two types of sweet potato plants - vines or bushes. The leaves are up to 10 cm long, often with toothed margins. Flowers have petals that are lavender to pale purple or white, forming a trumpet shape up to 7 cm long, often darker in colour inside the tube. The sweet potato is the tuberous root of the plant.

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plant Features
  • Trailing Black sweet potato likes full sun

    Full sun

  • Trailing Black sweet potato likes frequent watering

    Frequent watering

  • Trailing Black sweet potato is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Trailing Black sweet potato likes light and free draining

    Light and free draining

 
plant information

Common name

Trailing Black sweet potato

Latin name

Ipomoea batatus 'Bright Ideas Black'

type

Vegetable

family

Convolvulaceae

ph

4.5 - 7.0 Acid - Neutral

  • Light

    Trailing Black sweet potato likes full sun

    Full sun

  • Frost

    Trailing Black sweet potato is not frost hardy

    Not Frost hardy

  • Soil

    Trailing Black sweet potato likes light and free draining

    Light and free draining

  • Water

    Trailing Black sweet potato likes frequent watering

    Frequent watering

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full grown dimensions

The size of a fully grown Trailing Black sweet potato is 0.80meters x 0.30meters 0.80 M 0.30 M

Ipomoea batatus 'Bright Ideas Black'

'Bright Ideas Black' is a trailing variety that produces numerous white flowers throughout the whole season. Sweet potato is not closely related to potato. Sometimes known by the common name yam, sweet potato should not be confused with Dioscorea which are also known as yams but belong to a different plant family. There are two types of sweet potato plants - vines or bushes. The leaves are up to 10 cm long, often with toothed margins. Flowers have petals that are lavender to pale purple or white, forming a trumpet shape up to 7 cm long, often darker in colour inside the tube. The sweet potato is the tuberous root of the plant.


Growing slips

From Mid Spring TO Late Spring

Sweet potatoes grow from slips - the shoots that sprout from the tuber. Slips can be bought, or can be grown from a tuber. If growing from a tuber, cut the tuber in half (crosswise),and place the cut face down in damp vermiculite, and place in a warm place, such as an airing cupboard, or propagator, and allow the sprouts to form. Remove the shoots (or slips) with a sharp knife when they are 2"-3" long., and pot them in to pots of cutting compost, and leave them to form roots in the greenhouse, or in a propagator.

 

Planting slips

From Early Summer TO Mid Summer

When the slips have developed roots, harden them off gradually, and then plant them out in light, free-draining soil, by making holes 2"-3" deep and carefully placing the plant in the hole, with the leaves above the level of the soil, and carefully fill the hole over the roots, then firm in. Water well.The plants need heat of around 70 deg.F to thrive, so in cooler climates, grow them in the greenhouse.

 
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