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Geir Harris Hedemark wrote in message ...
"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.


The fermentation in this case is a dry --well, moist-- process that
takes months and requires tropical heat and sunlight.

Home production of vanilla "beans" is wholly impractical unless one
lives in the tropics.

J. Del Col