Yes there is assuming what you want is more potatoes and not just new leaves. Unlike Irish potatoes, sweet potatoes develop on the roots of the individual slips. Planting a whole tuber only grows more slips rooted in the old sweet potato, not new potatoes. You can't grow new potatoes inside the planted sweet potato. ;-)

Dave

Thanks. What about the curing process? Is that only necessary in colder climates? Ambient temperature is around 30 Celsius my place.

Curing sweetens and toughens the sweet potato, so it would still be necessary.

Grow slips off the sweet potato and root them. It’s ridiculously easy, you can literally stick the slips (the sprouts off the old potato) In a glass of water for a couple days. Then plant.

" What about the curing process? Is that only necessary in colder climates?"

Always required for best flavor Curing converts the starches to sugars so un-cured sweet potatoes are rather bland, tasteless, and prone to rot. In tropical climates, where most are grown, the potatoes are shipped to large temp-controlled storage units and cured.

Dave

" In tropical climates, where most are grown, the potatoes are shipped to large temp-controlled storage units and cured."

Ok, how should I do the curing as a home grower? From the instructions, my normal conditions should be hot and humid enough, do i just leave the harvested roots in a room for a few days? Sorry if my question is silly haha, first time.

I am wondering about the tropical conditions, and I'm wondering if this person wanted, whether they could plant the whole tuber like they first mentioned, and then bury the stems of the vine as they grow. Of course, since starting slips is so easy, and does help prevent disease, slip planting seems a good choice. But since frost isn't an issue, I'm thinking they could just plant the tubers themselves and bury spots along the stem.

In fact, with sweet potato actually being a perennial, they could theoretically root the potatoes along the stem at whatever time intervals they wished and just harvest the previous rooted spots sequentially as they reached desired size. In the N. Hemisphere we grow them as an annual, but the tropics has rules all their own.

First sweet potato is a true root not a tuber. Planting a root is equivalent to throwing a whole handful of seeds in a hole. You would have to thin the slips anyway. Since the main function of curing is to allow the root lose water content and concentrate the sugars, Probably several weeks in sheltered storage would work. I have no knowledge of growing them in actually tropics. I cure them like my Granpappy did. Dig them up, lay them out in the barn until temps approached freezing , then bring them inside for the winter.