Black Sweet Potato Vine Indoors

While it does produce edible sweet potato tubers albeit not very palatable and bitter the ornamental variety bears more colorful foliage making it a popular houseplant.

Black sweet potato vine indoors.

They are bred for the beauty of their leaves rather than edible tubers and the vines from these plants make them look more like a morning glory or clematis than a member of the potato family. The ornamental varieties are simply cultivars of the species plant. Overwintering sweet potato tubers. The ornamental sweet potato plant ipomoea butatas is somewhat different from its southern grown vegetable sibling.

Follow these steps to planting and growing your own sweet potato vine indoors. Bulb like tubers grow just beneath the surface of the soil. Use an organic sweet potato. A rich lime green variant is available as is a rusty bronze.

If you have space you can simply bring the plants indoors and grow them as houseplants until spring. Beautiful plant this particular ohio one actually a very dark purple black quite black with very dark greenish tinge at edges. The newer baby leaves are a dark green at first but not for long. The black version of the solarpower is a purple sweet potato vine and is deep purplish black in hue.

Plant a sweet potato in water and almost before your eyes it transforms into a sprawling vine with lime green or purple tinged leaves. Sweet potato vines can be overwintered indoors from tubers or cuttings. The color has remained identical either place and plant health as well. Even better the leaves are edible and tasty.

How to grow a purple sweet potato vine. Solarpower is one of the best performers in hot environments growing to an average height of one foot and spreading about three feet wide. The sweet potato plant or sweet potato vine has been cultivated for around 2 000 years for its sweet tasting tubers. Sweet potato vine ipomoea batatas blackie is a fast growing tropical vine that gracefully spills over the edges of patio containers or hanging baskets.

I held the plant 2 months in shade before planting in full sun. Sweet potato vine winter care. Although most gardeners are familiar with annual sweet potato vines ipomoea batatas for their edible smoky sweet orange tubers the ornamental sweet potato vine puts its energy into fountains of deeply lobed or heart shaped spring to fall leaves. Otherwise there are several easy ways of overwintering a sweet potato vine.

Overwatering and poor drainage can cause fungal problems such as fusarium wilt root rot or tuber rot.