"Small apartment" and vanilla don't exactly go hand in hand. Vanilla
requires high humidity, high heat, and won't flower until it is a
significant number of metres long.

Thanks for telling me this. The heat will be a problem, so I may not get one
after all... but as for it getting to a certain size, they climb, right? I
was planning to train it all over the kitchen window and environs; I have a
wire grid there already anyway. That room is so humid I need to open the
door to make tea, or I suffocate. Well, not quite that bad.... Does the
whole plant require high heat, or only the root system? I've heard very
interesting stuff about growing some warm-root vegetables with their top
leaves actually frosted, if the roots are kept warm. I suppose this is too
much to hope for with a vanilla orchid? Another point is that I don't plan
to live in this apartment forever; when we eventually moved, having grown
the plant awhile might give it a jump on flowering... ?

I am getting a number of flasks in august. In there is a neofinetia
falcata. Perhaps that would be someting for you? I have no idea how
hard it is to grow, though. Talk to me in three years.

That does look like an awfully nice plant. Thanks for the tip; it's going
straight onto my wish-list!

Thanks,

Katrina


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