![]() Without hand pollination the male bits can’t reach the female bits as the little doorway just stays shut and you won’t get any pods form. These flowers must be hand pollinated for successful fruit set just like they do commercially because here in Australia we don’t have the right pollinating insect to do the job effectively. Once I have a couple meters of growth I snap off the tip to promote branching and stress the plant into forming flowers. ![]() Ignore the damaged leaves and minor patches of rot as they will dry out in no time and it won’t effect the plants later growth at all.Īs they grow I wrap it around the wooden post like a vine in a never ending coil. On arrival remove the cutting and plant it paper end down one or two nodes/joints deep in a warm sheltered position out of full sun. I use a sandy well draining soil mix and I grow it in pots with short thick wooden stakes. Low temperatures and frost will reliably kill it every single time. In my experience it is an easy to grow plant but it needs a warm local environment and it does best in the top half of Australia. The much cheaper Vanilla flavour, Vanilla extract or artificial Vanilla essence is made from a concoction of wood pulp, coal tar, or other much less expensive suspect stuff, whereas true Vanilla extract is an extraction from the bean made by just soaking it in alcohol and water. ![]() What you may not know is that real true blue vanilla comes from the bean of an orchid and this is the reason for it’s scarcity and exorbitant prices in the shops. They must be sent as a “Parcel” and this is why they are not cheap anymore.Įveryone knows the glorious flavour of vanilla. These are too thick for shipping as a “Large Letter <20mm”.
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