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I stuck a piece of my dying plant into a potato. Now it seems to have fused with the potato. I was able to take the plant out before but now it is stuck. Did the potato grow around it? Is it growing?
I don't think it's much of a stretch for the potato to be acting as soil...
Huh, that sounds neat, I'm not sure what's going on, but neat! Potatoes have moisture and nutrients in them, so I guess it's not impossible... What kind of plant is it?
It was a rose that was dying. The place I living in had a garden when moving in. So one day I took a branch from the dying plant and I put it into a potato. It was a joke but now it will not come out. I know this might seem like an idiotic question. I am not a good gardener though. I put it in a a cup of water to see. I can not tell if it is growing though.
No, no, it's not idiotic at all. Roses are easily grafted, so it's no stretch of the imagination. It's highly possible that the rose is trying to grow. It may work and it may not. You may try carving an "exit point" on the underside of the potato to give the rose's root somewhere to go or it may become root bound. Then plop the potato in a bowl or something with some warm water in it and set it on top of the fridge or above a TV, somewhere warm. You might be growing a whole new rose bush there.
I found an example of grafted roses for you, these have been grafted onto a tree, making it look like a "weeping rose tree" sort of thing: http://www.hellohello.com.au/wp-content/uploads/2012/08/weeping-pink-rose.jpg
I looked up if this was possible. Nothing really comes up about it. I heard in school it was a tuber and plants grow off of it. Thought it only says about it growing more potatoes or other related plants. I put it in a bowl of water when I realized it was stuck in the potato. My friend says they think it is growing. Plants grow slowly though so I am not sure how to tell. You mean root bound to the potato? I do not know a lot about plants.
Okay, potatoes only grow potatoes... but the rose may be "feeding" off of the moisture and nutrients in the potato. Have you ever seen a nursery plant that was root bound?
This is an extreme example of what root bound plants look like:
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/9/94/Root-bound_Chlorophytum_comosum.jpg
See how they take the shape of the container? You don't want your plants roots to be all knotted up like that, you want to give them somewhere to go.
You're doing a good job so far. Just make sure to give the plant some light and keep it watered and wait until you can see roots growing. Then you might try cutting off any "extra" potato and planting the plant in a pot.