First Time Vanilla Blooms

[rdlsreno]

Good work!

Ramon

[ASP]

It looks great! Very envious!
How old is your plant? On plantations the vines start flowering anywhere between 2 to 4 years after they are planted as cuttings usually about 3 feet long. The tips are also pinched out about 10 months before the flowering season to encourage blooming.
How many inflorescences has it had?

[ASP]

I'm blind ! - I see it took 4 years!

[Junebug]

Originally Posted by ASP

It looks great! Very envious!
How old is your plant? On plantations the vines start flowering anywhere between 2 to 4 years after they are planted as cuttings usually about 3 feet long. The tips are also pinched out about 10 months before the flowering season to encourage blooming.
How many inflorescences has it had?

Currently there are six clusters of buds in various stages of development. It was an 8" cutting when I got it. It's always grown rapidly but the bigger it gets the faster it grows, especially over the last 2 years. I've never taken cuttings and to my knowledge she's only branched once.

[nenella]

Great Growing! Congratulations very nice reward for all that patience! Although I still think that's rapid growing considering the size that your plant is now compared to 8" !!

[Junebug]

Originally Posted by nenella

Great Growing! Congratulations very nice reward for all that patience! Although I still think that's rapid growing considering the size that your plant is now compared to 8" !!

Thank you. Yeah, she's a fast grower. She really takes off as our rainy season kicks in. She's already grown about 4' this Spring in spite of it being dry. When the rains kick in she really breaks loose with vine growth and aerial roots. Last year some of her aerial roots grew to over 2' in length. I didn't realize they could get that long.

[Cattleya17]

Amazing. I would for sure don't have room for that!! I greatly admire your lath house

[Junebug]

Originally Posted by Cattleya17

Amazing. I would for sure don't have room for that!! I greatly admire your lath house

Thank you. If my vanilla had "her way" she'd be climbing all over the shadehouse.

[Cattleya17]

I'm sure she would!! I have always loved shade houses/lath houses!! I simply Don't have a place to build one!! I grow on my deck under a tree in the summer it works ok but takes up some space on the deck that we could be using for people lol. Again,Nice work on your vanilla orchid!!

[vmijct]

Beautiful! With green sepals are you sure it is a planifolia? I'm no expert I'm just asking. I bought one as a planifolia but after blooming and pollinating it turns out it's pompona. This is too pretty to be pompona. I had a pompona bloom at 6 ft long. Not sure what I did different to it to get it to bloom. Seen pics of commercial plants blooming at 6ft though.