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01-19-2007, 07:21 PM
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Vanilla planifola question...
While misting my vanilla recently, I noticed one leaf with an odd ridge down the center. It is the only leaf on the entire 6 ft plant with this ridge and I'm wondering what it is...
any opinions?
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01-19-2007, 10:50 PM
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I was just discussing this with the other orchid board members on chat, that is, your vanilla. WOW it has really grown! What a bean stalk!. Could it be that the leaves become mature and take on different morphology? Or maybe you got a parasite living in the leaf? Seems a little too straight for that though.
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01-20-2007, 01:04 AM
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I will check out ours in the greenhouse (or get Christina to) but for some reason i think that some of our leaves are like that.
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01-20-2007, 07:36 PM
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Sue,
Definitely not a problem, but perhaps it is "compressed" or something, perhaps from cooler weather. Mine will "compress", but instead just be kinda twisted to one side... or it may have been borne like that, with a crease... 
Sure has grown! This species is a weed... secret to weedy-growing is keeping the vine on a mount... 
-Pat
Last edited by Mahon : 01-20-2007 at 07:43 PM.
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01-20-2007, 08:00 PM
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I had a very interesting conversation with Louis Del Favero today. He was the speaker at our meeting today so I brought the picture with me. He said he was speaking earlier this week to a friend of his who is familiar with a study on just this matter. Seems this ridge is a sign of a nutrition problem, but not in the amount of fertilzer but the time it is given. He didn't know much more but we both got a chuckle out of me showing him a picture of something he heard about for the first time two days ago
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01-20-2007, 08:04 PM
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I still think it's going to die and free up valuable space for more Paphs.  |
01-20-2007, 08:09 PM
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You're a sick, sick man...don't ever change
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01-21-2007, 08:41 PM
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Tony Vanillas take very little space. Besides Catts rule and Paphs drool!
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01-22-2007, 01:39 AM
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Wow! Your vanilla has really grown since the last photos we've seen of it. How big was it when you got it?
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01-22-2007, 09:06 AM
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The original cutting was about 18 inches in length.
On June 19, 2006 I posted this
http://www.orchidboard.com/community...950&ppuser=293
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