FREE: Vanilla Bean Orchid

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Sorry about the shipping but I'm BROKE! GIN will get free shipping. You will receive a piece of my vanilla bean orchid (2nd pic from my pinky up). The vanilla orchid grows best in bright filtered shade and high humidity. Ideal temperatures are between 60-70 degrees F at night, and 80-95 degrees F during the day. The plants are not frost tolerant. It takes 3-5 years from cutting to bloom. Start your vanilla orchid in a mixture of half bark and half potting mix. This is slightly more dense and heavy than most orchid growing media. Your cutting or small starter plant will need this combination of excellent drainage and nutrients to nourish the plant while the vine develops. After the vine develops its epiphytic roots, it will no longer depend on the roots in the potting mix. Hand-pollinate the flowers in the morning with a chopstick. Remove pollen from the stamen of one flower and place it on the stigma of another flower. Pods will form within a week, and are ready to harvest in 9-10 months. If pollination is successful, your three-year-old vanilla orchid will produce green bean-like pods from October through March. Good quality pods should be at least six inches long. The curing process is labor-intensive, and involves sweating and drying. Every day for six weeks, you must wrap the beans in a blanket at night to facilitate moisture condensation on the pods. During the day, place the beans on trays in the sun, or under a heat lamp indoors. Following this sweating process, you should dry the now brown and shriveled pods in a dark, dry place for an additional three months. You can store the cured beans in an air tight container indefinitely.

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