@carya , those are some great looking roots there! Nice job with your project! 
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Oh the sweet potatoes themselves (from my 1st Pic) make the slips (was watching a few videos now showing plants form on top of sweet potato in glass of water)? and not planting out the thin roots from my 2nd pic, correct?
I usually throw those thin roots in the tub with the eating size ones and they sprout in storage and I plant them whole or snap them in half and plant.
But also a portion of the thin roots do shrivel in storage, but most don’t for me.
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It didn’t produce much in the way of roots unfortunately, but it stayed a nice compact plant all season. If the tiny roots it did give me store until next year I’ll give it another go and see if I can get some bigger roots from it. It’s main use will be for greens though.
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Last year I bought 4 different sweet potatoes from the grocery store, Murasaki, stokes purple, jewel and garnet. Started slips and planted, garnet didn’t make much but the others all did well. The only problem was wireworms, lots of potatoes were damaged. murasaki and stokes were true, but the supposed Jewel has white/tan skin and white flesh so I don’t know what it is.
This year I made slips from last years harvest and planted but this time I used 23 gallon totes. I put two in each tote and had one “jewel” left over so I planted it near a plum tree.
Harvested the totes three weeks ago. Yesterday I decided to see if the last “jewel” made any SP’s .
40 lbs total from one plant. not including the large one a rabbit or vole ate.
How big will SP’s get in the south with longer seasons. I had no idea they would get this large.
What’s everyones favorite cultivar? I like sweet potatoes but I think I like the normal orange ones better than the ones I am growing.
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