"White Monkey" writes:
I hope you aren't considering it as a source of vanilla "beans". The
process of making vanilla pods is a kind of lengthy fermentation that
takes lots of heat and sunlight.
I was thinking (dreaming) of it as a very-low-yield, impress-your-friends
kind of source, like my ginger and turmeric plants. Oh well! Someday I'll
be able to create the right conditions and I'll give it a whirl. I'm the

Don't let the process get you down. The worst that will happen to you
when fermenting your pods is that you will have learnt something about
fermentation. Since fermentation is a fairly important bit of cooking
techniques, you might be a better cook.

If you have a go, please save an unfermented pod for me, please. I am
sure that a vanilla thingy would be a nice plant, even in a
non-flowering size.

Now, if I could get my vanda keeree/sansai blue and my blc white
diamond to flower.

Does anyone know how large a vanda needs to be before it starts to
have a chance of flowering? The leaves are about 15cm/6in high right
now.

Geir