Sweet potato slips

[Dieselrider]

I have a few sweet potatoes in jars and they are starting to grow. Now my question is how do I go about removing the slips to separate them from the potato and put them into their own jar? Do I just cut a little bit of the potato right under the sprout or do I need a good size chunk of it to keep the growth going? Will the main potato start more slips once the currant ones are removed?

Also I have a couple I unknowingly set upside down in the jar and the starts are coming off the bottom as well as some roots. Should I just turn the whole potato over and remove the starts or let it the way it is and remove the starts as they come on? Thanks.

[Rockytopsis]

Just break the slips off gently at the potato and put in water. Leave the whole potato in water as it will set more slips.
I think I would just turn the other over.

[Paquebot]

Break off the slips when they are between 6" and 8". Leave the tuber as is and it should grow approximately the same number again. One can usually figure on 3 pickings. I've got one tuber right now with about 20 slips forming after 3 weeks in water. Another is forming about a dozen after 55 weeks. After 2 pickings last year, left it outside in the water all summer and brought it in with the 6 slips which would have been the third picking. Picked them off 3 weeks ago and now starting over again.

Martin