Japanese Purple Sweet Potato (1 LB)Excellent yields and flavor. Stores well.

Good condition when arrived.

These purple sweet potatoes were old. For those of you who may know nothing about purple sweet potatoes, they are a vibrant violet color when they are good and within their prime. When purple potatoes are getting old, they lose their purple hues for a pastel purplie pink color. When they become purple beyond consumption or even available to propagate (growing slips aka long stems) to grow more purple sweet potato) their color then changes to pastel pinkish grey with off white spots inside; eventually leaving to turn all white or all light grey. I chopped mine upon arrival and they were already pinkish with off while spots. I decided to give it a shot juuuuuuust in case a miracle would occur. I soaked one in clean water before I attempted to propagate it by keeping it submerged in water and changed the water daily for over 2 weeks aaaaand nothing. Not a single root, not a single stem or leaf , not a thing. DO NOT WASTE YOUR MONEY NOR TIME IF YOU ARE WISE! I wonder how long ago the ones I got were harvested? Mid 2020? Idk

I absolutely loved the purple sweet potatoes!!! I was surprised b/c they didn’t taste like traditional sweet potatoes but more like a regular white potatoes but absolutely delicious & I understand they are packed with nutrients!!! They arrived in great shape and 1/2 of one purple potato was enough for a full meal! A little butter, salt, & pepper… YUM!!!

I bought this to sprout and plant. Took a while to sprout slips but it did. I planted 4 slips last summer in a large grow bag and yielded 5lbs. I will be planting much more slips next time. They have great taste and texture, and retain their purple color after cooking. It's not as sweet as the Batata I grew from store-bought. But love this purple sweet potato anyways.

I received 3 potatoes in excellent condition. I bought them for planting. Expensive. Way too expensive for me to just eat them. If I received 20lbs. of potatoes I would have eaten some right away and the price would have been better. Because I ordered so late in the year I will just store in a dry cool place wrapped in paper for next year's planting. Shipping was very good. Condition very good. Just too expensive to eat. Again I did buy them for planting. They had the least terrible reviews so I am going to try them. Sorry to ramble.

I love that my order of sweet potatoes came healthy. I will be using them to grow my own slips.

You will find two methods of growing slips online, half-submerge in water or bury half way in potting soil. Both of these methods only produced rotten yams for me. However, in the course of these fail experiments, I left one aside. I had to hide in a dark corner so that my family wouldn't mistakenly cook it and eat it. When I went to retrieve it (3 weeks after purchase), it shows beginning of little purple sprouts. I retried the potting soil method, this time careful not to over water. In one week I have dozens of slips over 6 inches. My garden is full. I kept the yam in potting soil, and it continues to give slips. I'm going to plant my mom's garden, too.

One potato was broken. Please replace