First Time Vanilla Blooms
 

I thought I'd die of old age before this chid bloomed, but it finally happened and it only took 4 years. Enjoy! Vanilla planifolia - Orchid Board Galleries

Beautiful bloom! Well worth the patience. :) I hope that this is the first of many blooms for this plants. How long did the plant have to get before flowering? I've heard that they need to be quite large.

I have the same question as Camille. How big is the plant? I hope one day I can have a green house or live somewhere where I can grow this orchid species. Beautiful plant! Congrats on the blooming!

Great growing!

Its beautiful! There seems to be lots of contradicting advice about the size or length before they bloom. I've started to collect vanilla's and wind them around bent bamboo that I wrap with coir. Im keeping them a bit cooler than they like to keep them slow growing until we move soon to somewhere with more room.

Great growing!!!!

Congrats on the bloom! Your patience paid off! How large is your plant as I've heard several different stories too on how big they need to be to bloom.

Judi

Thanks everyone. Gosh, I really don't know how long the vines are, but my best estimate would be over 50 ft. I know they grew at least 20 feet last Summer. Here's a photo taken last month.

Woo hoo! Congrats! It's a gorgeous bloom!

:yikes: holy smokes!

That's enormous!! :faint: Reminds me why I don't have space for a Vanilla plant...