Vanilla Planifolia

[ilia]

Lovely blossoms! Enjoy them as the flowers only last for one day.

[78Terp]

If you like 'em big, I wholeheartedly recommend the den spectible!

[Wade's Orchids]

Vanilla isn't impossible to bloom here in Pennsylvania, just close to it!

[chingjervis]

@78terp : "I'd love to try a vanilla vine but I am space challenged"

Im mentally challenged...lol

[78Terp]

Since we all have the orchid 'problem', we are all mentally challenged.

It's hard but I am at about 100 orchids and running out of room, so I haven't bought any recently. I am enjoying watching and learning from the ones I have already brought into the asylum.

But I am taking my mounted and paphs to the baby sitter next week while I go visit family back east and they are our orchid nursery, so it may be hard to not come home with one more than I went with.

[King Kjeldz]

well since it is native i have seen huge vines way to hell high up in the forest canopy...sometimes they fall to the ground and continue growing longer but the leaves get smalller to almost just a fleshy vine....still it grows...i could get longggggg divisions from old cocoa estates which would take lesss time to flower....thanks for the info....but eggshells and banana peels i wud associate with a trash can....i cantttt put that in a pot i just cant connie

[Rinaldy Nasrul]

So beautiful

[rich63]

Impressive. I have been around much lately. I wish I were still down in Florida ! Rich

[Cjcorner]

well since it is native i have seen huge vines way to hell high up in the forest canopy...sometimes they fall to the ground and continue growing longer but the leaves get smalller to almost just a fleshy vine....still it grows...i could get longggggg divisions from old cocoa estates which would take lesss time to flower....thanks for the info....but eggshells and banana peels i wud associate with a trash can....i cantttt put that in a pot i just cant connie

I grew up working in my dad's garden that took up about 1/4 acre. We used to put some of the nastiest stuff on the garden in the spring and then a coat of dead leaves and grass clippings in the fall. Trips to fill the truck with horse manure to put on the garden. lol And for the simple ground orchids and vines like vanilla...to me it is second nature to throw egg shells, potato trimmings, banana peel, etc. into my pots for normal plants. Now you will never catch me doing that with a standard Cattleya. But ground orchids or tropical plants that are in dirt...they never get 100% dirt in my back yard.

[zainal abidin]

Wow one of the biggest flower that I ever seen like the trumpet lip.