Beginner Gardening: Sweet potatoes leafing and rooting but not vining., 2 by zzgirl

zzgirl wrote:
Odd thing with my sweet potato starts this year, they are leafing but not growing long vines.
Is it possible to ID the sweet potato by leaf? I bought the sweet potatoes from the store originally, and wonder if I got a " bush type." Doesn't really matter, but I haven't seen the slips grow like this before.
Picture on left is for leaf ID. Picture on right is how one slip grew on the potato--life a multi-trunked bush. I plucked it off and floated it in water, where it grew roots like mad in no time.

This message was edited Mar 31, 2013 4:55 PM