I'm looking for Margarita and Blackie. The vendor I was looking at has sold out.
I don't have a seed trade list, but I do have some seeds of various descriptions; or I'd gladly send sasbe.
Thanks,
Deborah
CLOSED: Does anyone have sweet potatoe vine seeds?
There's a vendor for seeds for these? You'll be better off asking for cuttings for postage on another forum, I'm certain you'll get them.....plant trading or a southern regional forum.
Deborah,
I have a small amount of cuttings that need a home of the blackie. Let me know if you would like them. I would be happy to send them to you for a few seeds of something a hummer likes.
My grandmother used to take a sweet potato and put 4 toothpicks in it and place it in a jar of water. She used to get the most beautiful vines. I don't know if this would work for you, but it's fun to try.
Gail
Makshi, I'd love some cuttings of 'Blackie'. I'll be more than happy to send you some seeds of plants attractive to hummers. I'm in the addy exchange. Are you as well? Cuttings should fit in a bubble envelop don't you think? If you don't think so and have to send a small box, jlmk. I'll try to send some of my cuttings along with the seeds. Just trying to even swap as much of the postage as possible. I'm the begger here. Don't want you to spend more unneccessarily.
Gail, I almost forgot about the sweet potatoes on toothpicks in the kitchen window! My granny did the same thing. I'll try that too! I'm particularily looking for the lime green color, though, that 'Margarita' would give me to mix with 'Blackie'.
Arenzo, I probably saw plants instead of seeds, but now I can't locate the vendor. Been clicking all day looking at pictures. Found these two cutivars together and almost fell over. They were gorgeous together...the small grape-leaf shaped black mixed with the lime-green larger leaf margarita. Now I can't locate the picture of them together. Bummer
You are so right, they are very pretty together. The blackie with the tricolor together is also very pretty, I love foliage :-)
Cuttings are super easy to root also. I brought my blackie and tricolor indoors after trimming them both back. I left the clippings out on the ground in the driveway thinking to put them in the compost pile. When I looked at them a couple days later, the little tricolor sprig was still perked up. So feeling sorry for it, I brought it inside and put it in a glass of water. It was only one day and it had a few tiny roots sticking out. A week later I repotted it into some potting soil and it is going strong.
I had the chartruese one last year with the blackie and they looked really pretty together. My tri-color seemed to like a little more pampering in the summer.
I think sitting in a bubble envelope would not hurt a cutting at all, since mine sat outdoors out of soil in the elements for a few days and still rooted.
Hi Deborah,
I can send you a small, cutting of
the lime green sweet potate vine.
That I'm rooting for next year.
Gale
Windy, I agree with you about the bubble envelop being ok to ship cuttings. I've wrapped them in damp paper towels, placed in a ziplock and blew some air in before zipping up (my hot air, I might add). They arrived just fine. I'm glad to know that yours was resilent enough to survive a few days out in the elements. That's certainly a case of survival of the fittest. Question. If you live in zone 7-Ala climate, do I understand you correctly that you take yours in during the winter? Would I have to as well, in zone 8, Ga climate? I know nothing about potatoe vines other than they're pretty and I want some.
Missg, you have d-mail with a trade offer for your small cutting. I really want the lime green potatoe vine. Thanks!
I'm not closing this until I get both plants in my hands! Anymore out there?????
Deborah
I have plenty of the purple and you do have to bring them in for the winter.In order to get seeds you would probably need a green house as it takes about 10 months to bloom or longer and then you would not get the real thing from the seeds.Something is eating on mine,most likely flea beetles.
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Once you have the sweetpotato cutting it will mature and make tubers similar to sweetpotatoes. You can store these also in a frost free environment.
You could possibly find information on storing tubers and such with a google search. I recently looked up how to store dahlia bulbs. I grew them from seed this spring in a pot and then decided to look and see if anything was near the root. I found little bulbs that I dug and cut the top growth from. We shall see what happens over winter. It is always fun to experiment. Even the greatest gardeners started somewhere. LOL
Hem, I did'nt know they bloomed? Thought they were only foliage plants. Would sevin dust take care of the bettles?
I do have some folks sending me the margarita and the blackie, so I guess I should close this thread. Don't want to appear as a hog. Ya'll have been so gracious and kind in responding to my plea.