Where can I get seeds to grow the Blackie Sweet Potato that will bloom?

In the summer of 2005 I bought a Blackie Sweet Potato in a 4 " pot and found out that as it matured, it bloomed beautiful morning glory looking blooms in a beautiful lilac. I tried to winter over some pieces last winter but they didn't make it. In the summer of 2006 I noticed that I had some Blackie plants coming up "volunteer" so I knew that those blooms must have produced seed. I have one nice plant that I could try to winter over again but I would like to find a place where I could get the seed to plant to make sure that I have Blackies that bloom next year. They are beautiful.

Where can I get seeds to grow the Blackie Sweet Potato that will bloom?
Sweet potato vines actually reproduce via potatoes (rhizomes). If you did not dig up your vine in 2005, then that potato stayed in the ground, overwintered and produced a new vine in 2006. I own a garden center in Arkansas and have several customers every year who dig up their potatoes and store them in a cool, dry place over the winter and then replant them in the spring after the threat of frost has passed. Try digging around after yours dies this year and see if you can find your rhizome(potato) and store it over the winter in your garage or laundry room. GOOD LUCK!
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They are annuals that everyone propagates around here...they also come in the wonderful hot lime green....If nothing else, put cuttings in water and watch them take off for the winter indoors...if forsome reason, you don't have any, please let me know as they in four inch pots are in nurseries here year around.....good luck....i love them too and they trail from a basket or cover the ground...
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