Question: Vanilla Planiflora stem or spike?

[cb977]

Originally Posted by nhman

When you get your plant well established, the next issue will be the manual fertilization of the flowers - remembering that they only last one day and need to be hand pollenated early in the bloom's life for best results. You can look this up on line and get the step by step instructions. You might want to do this in advance, just so you are ready when you get blooms, whenever that may be!
I've had mine now for 3 years, it's about 15 feet long and growing on a natural rope along one wall of the growing area. No blooms.....yet........but I'm waiting! Good luck.

Check out the 6th post in this thread for a video on vanilla pollination...way cool

http://www.orchidboard.com/community...y-bloomed.html

[CTB]

Thanks, I would have planted in bark chip!

[cb977]

It's odd...for some reason, the AV mix and the tree fern pole seem to be the key for me. I've given lots of cuttings to friends and the ones who have had success use the same and are enjoying watching their plant grow...the ones who chose to do it their own way (which is fine since there is NO one single way to do this "right" ) don't seem to have as much success.

[Junebug]

Originally Posted by cb977

It's odd...for some reason, the AV mix and the tree fern pole seem to be the key for me. I've given lots of cuttings to friends and the ones who have had success use the same and are enjoying watching their plant grow...the ones who chose to do it their own way (which is fine since there is NO one single way to do this "right" ) don't seem to have as much success.

Two years ago I took your advice and used AV mix for my cutting. The plant has grown well and has never been repotted.

Thanks for the great advice, Susanne.

As an update to my original post...the growth in question was one of three branching stems and one of them has grown 3' longer. Another has grown about 2'. The last one is less robust and has only grown about 5". There's a 13" root growing from last seasons growth.

[cb977]

It looks great!!!

Job well done