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Bubbles said:Tee, I think that's also Boniatos, or what they call Cuban sweet potato in the grocery store. I wonder if you cut an "eye" off the tuber, if it will produce another plant. I usually toss my sweet potato vines each winter. I've never had success wintering them over. They turn to mush from over-watering, I think. After seeing your huge tuber, I'll look for mine next winter before putting things away.

Love the avocado tree. I think we've all grown one on the window sill, and then thought...now what? I wish we could grow them here also. We had a huge tree in Hawaii. I'm sure someone planted a seed years ago before they left the island. I wonder if they ever came back to see how large it had become?

They are both Ipomoea batatas but a bit different plants, I believe. These are too bitter to eat rather than just being dry like the Boniatos.

I will cut slips or just replant this one whole if I decide to only have one vine next year. I have a "regular" orange sweet potato rooting too and will cut slips from it for planting in the grow bags.

Yah, avocados grew in the ground outside my back door in So. Cal. Sigh!