^^ Returned. And BTW, Mr. Mannn the cat is doing fine, handsome and sweet as ever. But not like a potato.
Have to yet not met a vegetable or plant that I did not learn to like.
Sweet potatoes I have been fed since birth and like today. Acquired taste from upbringing.
So a couple months yes weeks and weeks ago I picked up a bag of a half dozen sweet potatoes. Somewhere down the line 2 got lost behind my toaster. Unlike white potatoes they did not rot and stink to high heavens, they just sat quietly growing out eyes that looked like dead twigs on a tree branch.
When I found them the eyes had grown out to perhaps 2-3 inches long were a dark brown.
Mother told me to place them in glass containers just big enough to hold them up straight and add water. Keep them in a dim light corner of the kitchen counter and let them rest with 3/4 of them dry and out of the water, forget about them she said, add fresh water every week or less and watch for the roots to start growing out of the bottom.
Forgot them I did for perhaps 3 weeks and one day I noticed green leaves growing on the eye stems. There on the bottom of the potato were some small roots growing in the water.
Science that was happening in my kitchen. The potato itself was not rotting, still as hard as a baseball but life of some sort was changing with little more then water and dim light, patience and time.
Interesting food stock, if one does not care for the taste they can be used as talking point as these things once put into a sun lit window will amaze the kids as they will grow so fast as a vine to take over in weeks the area they are placed in. After a year or so depending on the size of the potato the plant will still be grinding out vines and the plant itself still as hard as a rock. Just change the water now and then.
Hydro planting comes to mind here.