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04-18-2007, 11:28 AM
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Is this a bud? Looks like keiki to me. But I don't have this specie...
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04-18-2007, 11:35 AM
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No, these are where the blooms will come from...I just don't know if this is considered the actual bud or something else and the bud is not showing yet...
as I said...I have no clue 
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04-18-2007, 11:46 AM
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May be it is a stalk?
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04-18-2007, 12:13 PM
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I just took a closer look (this plant is in the corner of the room and I can't get to it very easily) and found that each of these formations has a sheath forming in the center...
so now I know...the wait continues 
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04-18-2007, 12:26 PM
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WOW, I would have been disheartened thinking it was an outgrowth, new stem. COngrats Sue. Thats one hell of a sheath!
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04-24-2007, 08:14 PM
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Looky what I found!
 I, too am the proud owner of a vanilla planifolia thanks to the GNYOS Show!   This is a great site. It even has pictures!
Dorothy
Silly me, I forgot to attach the link ...
Vanilla planifolia 2004
Last edited by Dorothy : 04-24-2007 at 08:17 PM.
Reason: forgot link .. duh me
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04-24-2007, 08:34 PM
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Cool!
Vanilla! The thing keeping me from buyign them is their size...I hear they get huge
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04-24-2007, 09:13 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by adriponic
Hi all,
My 18 feet long vanilla planifolia vines go up to only 4/5 feet high! There's how I do that:-
Wrap about 10 to 15 turns of stiff galvanised wire (3 mm) around a piece of 8 inch diam plactic pipe. Pull the wire out from onto the pipe and you get something like a stacked coiled spring. Extend this spring uniformly to the desired length, and you are done.
Screw one end of your extended coil into a 8/8.5 inch pot and train your vanilla vine along and around the wire. I usually keep the vine in place with soft pigtail wire or pipe cleaners and fill the void inside the spring with coconut fibre for additional anchorage for the axial roots.
10 turns around an 8 inch pipe will grow a vine up to 20 feet, nicely and uniformly stacked to a height of 4 feet... No need to look up ... or climb the pole to pollinate!
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Fren,
this was posted way back in this thread, seems like it would be a great space-saver 
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04-24-2007, 09:19 PM
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My space is limited too!
That is what I intend to do!!!
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04-25-2007, 03:16 AM
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Can I use vanilla as a shutter? How much light can it stand?
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