From in-vitro to soil to garden

mensplace · March 19, 2010

Anyone here ever grown in-vitro potatoes. I have successfully grown and transplanted to pots several British varieties of potatoes and sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes are much larger, but the standard potatoes are roughly six inches long, still rather fragile, and growing in sterile seed starting mix. Plenty of leaves, but the vine stems seem very pale and translucent still. I'm wondering if if might help to add some potting mix over the long, trailing stems, or to simply give them time to toughen up a bit. Bottom line, when do I add more soil and begin the process of getting them ready for the soil outdoors?... and how best to do so?

March 19, 2010	#1
mensplace Tomatovillian™ Join Date: Dec 2009 Location: USA Posts: 1,013	From in-vitro to soil to garden Anyone here ever grown in-vitro potatoes. I have successfully grown and transplanted to pots several British varieties of potatoes and sweet potatoes. The sweet potatoes are much larger, but the standard potatoes are roughly six inches long, still rather fragile, and growing in sterile seed starting mix. Plenty of leaves, but the vine stems seem very pale and translucent still. I'm wondering if if might help to add some potting mix over the long, trailing stems, or to simply give them time to toughen up a bit. Bottom line, when do I add more soil and begin the process of getting them ready for the soil outdoors?... and how best to do so?