Vanilla vines take two to four years to fully mature, and their flowers only bloom for one day of the year. In order for the plants to produce beans, they have to be pollinated that day. In most ...

Here in Hawaii, we can grow lots of wonderfully exotic tropical plants year round. The vanilla orchid vine is one of these that requires special care but can produce lovely flowers and a tasty product ...

Many farmers are not aware of the value of vanilla beans whose market prices range from at least Sh60,000 to Sh70,000 a kilo. Vanilla beans are reported to be the second most expensive product in the ...

Would you flinch at paying $540 a kilogram for, well, anything you eat regularly? That's what happened to the price of vanilla, the world's favourite spice, last year. So why on earth does a vanilla ...

Queensland novice farmers Ginger and Glen Macpherson have discovered what toothpicks, time limits, ladders and hermaphroditic flowers have to do with the much prized fruit of orchids. Vanilla beans ...

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So it’s fair to say that when it comes to sex, Vanilla planifolia is very picky and rarely in the mood; even in its native habitat it’s a wonder it ever reproduces. In a place like Far North ...