The continuing saga of the vanilla - today had my first attempt at hand-pollinating (with a bamboo skewer) on a ricketty ladder on a slope... I'll be extremely surprised if it worked but as I'm going to need to do it every day for a week or two as more flowers open, maybe I'll get there in the end.
This is a great link if anyone's interested in how it's done: [porvenirdesign.com]
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Feel free to reply to any comment by clicking the "Reply" button.How do the flowers pollinate naturally? Must be an incsect or bird not from this atea?
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