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Miniature orchids?
"White Monkey" wrote in message ...
"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... ? Umm... as White Monkey says, Vanilla planifolia has to get -really- big before it flowers and needs more space and light than a kitchen window can provide. It is a -tropical- plant; the whole thing has to be kept warm. It is essentially a greenhouse item. They are grown outdoors in Madagascar. 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. J. Del Col |
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