Propagation: Ornamental Sweet Potatoes, 1 by HollyAnnS

HollyAnnS wrote:
Lala_Jane, DIL's seeds didn't germinate. She didn't try saving any this year and now that I am home again it is probably too late to find any seeds.
I did notice that for some reason this year we had a lot of flowers on the ones in the deck boxes. Usually I only ever see a few if any flowers and this year there were really a lot and I barely gave seed collecting a passing thought.
My laundry room is pretty warm as it is just off the mud/utility room. The mud/utility room is where our coal/wood stove is which is our primary source of heat for the winter. We also vent the clothes dryer into the laundry room in the winter to get extra heat and humidity into the house. I had such good luck with my OSP tubers in the brown paper bags that last year I saved some of my Caladium bulbs that way and they did very well for me. I'm going to try that again this winter.
Rand, I'll be interested in seeing how you do when you dig yours up. I will be doing that pretty soon.
I've been traveling for the last several weeks and have an awful lot to catch up on. Here is a picture I took earlier this summer of my OSP flowers.