Leftover Chinese yam thrown into a flower pot, unexpectedly grew into a potted plant

Chinese yam is a very familiar medicinal food ingredient. Eating some Chinese yam in autumn and winter nourishes yin and tonifies the kidneys, strengthens the stomach and benefits the spleen, and is very good for the body.

Sometimes when you can't finish the Chinese yam and it sits for a long time and sprouts, the editor suggests it's best not to eat it, because once it sprouts it produces a toxin called solanine, which can harm your health. So how should sprouted Chinese yam be handled?

Look, this flower enthusiast threw a sprouted Chinese yam into a flower pot, and unexpectedly grew a pot of lush green little potted plant, and there are even Chinese yam bulbils to eat.

Next, the editor will tell everyone how to grow a pot of Chinese yam from a section of Chinese yam.

Prepare a section of sprouted Chinese yam. If the Chinese yam at home hasn't sprouted, you can put the Chinese yam section in water and first grow it hydroponically to encourage root and sprout growth, with the water level ideally not covering the Chinese yam.

Plant the Chinese yam in a flower pot with the sprouted part facing up, and press the Chinese yam and soil firmly together with your hands. To ensure the smooth growth of the Chinese yam, the flower pot must be chosen to be deeper and larger.

After planting the Chinese yam potted plant, water it thoroughly, then place it in a well-ventilated, sunny place for care, watering about once every one or two days.

Before long, the Chinese yam will grow lush green leaves. Chinese yam is a climbing vine plant, so after the leaves grow a bit larger, we can insert a few small sticks around the flower pot as climbing support, so the branches and leaves will climb up along the sticks, growing bigger and bigger, turning into an ornamental little green potted plant.

After the Chinese yam matures, the vines will bear little Chinese yam bulbils one by one, which can be picked and stir-fried or boiled, and are highly nutritious. After the vines and leaves wither, we carefully repot it, and we can see the little Chinese yams that have grown.

How about it, isn't it not complicated at all? Friends who have Chinese yam at home can plant a pot themselves!

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