🍠 How to Grow Sweet Potato Vines Indoors: A Simple Guide for Stunning Houseplants

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Today, I’m going to show you how to grow sweet potato vines indoors. They are a lot of fun. I have one here growing already. You’ll see it’s looking good. It’s a greener leaf than the ones we’re going to be planting today, which have more of a red or burgundy leaf. The color depends on the type of sweet potato that you get. You can see how pretty this is, and it’s going to continue to grow. It has new vines and leaves coming out, making it a very fun plant to grow indoors.

Okay, so how to do this is really simple. First of all, you need the plants like these guys to be sending out the leaves. The eyes on the potato are where they start to send out stems and leaves. Usually, people throw them away at that point, but this is a perfect opportunity for you to plant them and have a beautiful plant that will keep growing for several months. So, save your old sweet potatoes when they go bad before you can use them.

Here, you can see another one with lots of good stuff coming out of it. You need them to begin sprouting like this. They don’t necessarily have to get this long of stems, but they do need some stem because of the way they grow when you plant them this way.

What you’re going to do is cut off the potato, leaving some of it to provide nutrients to the plant. Then, put the stem down so that the leaf nodes, which also serve as stem nodes, along the stem will begin to grow more stems and vines for you. You aren’t creating roots with the potato itself; the stems will create roots.

Here, you can see up close where we had the original potato because this one was planted a couple of months ago. The potato has deteriorated as the plant grew. Now, we are going to do the procedure on at least one of these guys here.

I have a container ready. I got a bigger and wider container because I’m going to try to put more in. This was just one sweet potato with one eye growing, and these have more. I want more opportunities for the stems to hit the soil. The pot isn’t very deep, but it is wider to accommodate more stems. You can use smaller pots if you prefer. Pre-moisten the soil before planting.

Choose a stem with a lot of nodes along it. Cut out a portion in a V shape to give it a nice base to be steady in the pot. Insert it and turn it so that as much of the stem as possible is in contact with the soil. Be careful not to pull out the whole stem from the potato because it needs the moisture and nutrients.

You can use hairpins to keep the stems in contact with the soil. The roots will start to form, and the plant will begin to grow more leaves. If you need to, you can clip off a leaf to create a new root node. Water the plant thoroughly to activate the stems and start growing your pretty vines.

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