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Post by ieatflys on Aug 30, 2009 0:41:28 GMT
Hi all aia have been interested in vanilla orchids for a wile and I would like to get one. but first is it an easy plant? and if I put it a nepenthes terrarium will it do good in highland or lowland? thanks for any answers.
ieatflys
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Post by unstuckintime on Aug 30, 2009 1:04:22 GMT
Easy, yes, but you wont get any vanilla out of them in anything short of a massive greenhouse. They take years to mature to blooming size, and need to be something in the range of several dozen feet long before they bloom. I toured a local greenhouse who had one growing in their propagation house for six years, and it had only recently bloomed, and the main stem was as thick as my arm.
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Post by ieatflys on Aug 30, 2009 1:16:25 GMT
Oh I dont care about the bloom just the plant. Im guessing highland.
thanks ieatflys
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Post by justjack on Aug 30, 2009 19:17:46 GMT
I've got one in my east kitchen window a friend gave me. I'd kind of call it intermediate to highland. It is a vertical climber so it will require hight to grow. It does however grow very slowly. No blooms but nice to have. Someone just gave me a cutting out of the blue, and I managed to not kill it!
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Post by Brian Barnes on Aug 31, 2009 13:29:44 GMT
Hello Friends, Currently, the following Vanilla species are native to south Florida; V. aphylla V. aromatica V. articulata V. barbellata V. claviculata V. dilloniana V. fragrans V. phaeantha V. planifolia They never really experience any temps below 45F for any extended periods and grow very well in the 70F-90F range 'in situ', providing they're not exposed to too much wetness. Give them something to "climb" and you'll see a rush of growth and increased internode length... Happy Growing, Brian.
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Post by ieatflys on Sept 1, 2009 0:28:28 GMT
Hi I am also looking into pocket book plants [nicknamed] its an ant plant I was wondering how it would do in a lowland terrarium. and what are its requirements.
thanks ieatflys
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Post by rsivertsen on Sept 1, 2009 12:59:23 GMT
Hi I am also looking into pocket book plants [nicknamed] its an ant plant I was wondering how it would do in a lowland terrarium. and what are its requirements. thanks ieatflys Longwood Gardens had a 20 foot wall, about 15 feet tall, with a couple vanilla orchids growing all over it like the massive vine that it is, but eventually took it all down as it took up too much space and room, and provided too many hiding places for pests, and was too much for them to deal with, even for them, with their 3.8 some acres under glass! So, just how large of a terrarium do you have in mind for this? I would imagine the same terrariums/aquariums that are used by public aquariums to contain sharks, manta rays, and an entire well populated coral reef! - Rich
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Post by ieatflys on Sept 1, 2009 13:54:28 GMT
Its going to be 7'tall 2' deep and 4'tall. but I am going to have a wall blocking off 1 third of it though for highland. the rest it lowland. I went to the Missouri botanical garden with about 8 different kinds of lowland neps thriving in the climatron along with this plant AND IT IS EVERYWHERE so I know how mutch room it takes. but how will it grow for me. fast slow.
thanks ieatflys
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Post by fredg on Sept 1, 2009 20:57:12 GMT
Could you post that again in english please? Edit:- Thank you for the modification ;D
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Post by ieatflys on Sept 1, 2009 23:27:33 GMT
MODIFIED.
thanks ieatflys
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