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The continuing saga of the vanilla - today had my first attempt at hand-pollinating (with a bamboo skewer) on a ricketty ladder on a slope... I'll be extremely surprised if it worked but as I'm going to need to do it every day for a week or two as more flowers open, maybe I'll get there in the end.
This is a great link if anyone's interested in how it's done: [porvenirdesign.com]

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Allamanda 8 Apr 7
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How do the flowers pollinate naturally? Must be an incsect or bird not from this atea?

RussRAB Level 8 Apr 7, 2019

I'm also curious how difficult vanilla orchids are to grow. I have seen them offered for sale from time to time, but never purchased one.

Many orchids are EXTREMLY pollenator specific--like only one species of insect can do it.
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Are the flowers vanilla scented?

Hathacat Level 9 Apr 7, 2019
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is that really a vanilla plant?

nogod Level 7 Apr 7, 2019

@Allamanda , l think l love you!! JK, l've always wanted to try that.
l'm very interested how it turns out
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