Sweet Potato

When I came back from holiday in March, I found a sweet potato I'd left in the kitchen (in the dark) had started to sprout. I think there were even roots coming out at the top. 

After a while I thought I put it in water to root, so I got a glass jar, stuck skewers into the sweet potato (as seen on a Milicienta video on YouTube!), filled the jar with water and balanced the sweet potato on the jar, and it very quickly grew these roots.

I then thought it would do better if I transferred it from the dark kitchen to the much lighter living room, and I cut off the really long bit, and some of the roots and damaged bits ...

... and I'm now thinking of putting the sweet potato in a pot with soil. The leaves have turned greener now, rather than purple.

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UPDATE - I threw away the sweet potato the other day, because it was surrounded by fruit flies, and it was rotting inside!  And it may have had some disease on the leaves too - there was some sort of white powder or spots on the leaves ...