This is where I will share a few videos, recipes and tips on my journey with growing vanilla in Samoa. A beautiful tropical island in the South Pacific.
Don't be shy to send me your comments and thoughts and ask questions if you would like.
thank you so much mam for your sharing the tips… how to grow vanilla tree.. i have two vanilla tree❤❤❤ but i just start this year❤ i hope my vanilla wont die if winter coming…
My lady farmer, You’re genius. I have loved your natural methods of growing this plant. Very healthy. Now, my questions: What are the benefits of covering vanilla using coconut wastes? What’s wrong planting vanilla ‘in’ the soil. How do you make your own reneger? Thank you for your unselfish efforts….
I'm from Kenya, and we have some of the best climate for growing Vanilla. I have done a Thesis on Vanilla that that has taken me over 1 Yr now to finish. Vanilla in East Africa
Thank you everyone for the keen interest in what I share. There are a lot of requests for me to show how I make the LAB, FPJ ,WCA etc. 😊 I will do a separate video on this soon.
@joaoperroud6162 thank you for watching. I am a novice and still learning too. Here is a link on KNF Korean Natural Farming that will help you. naturalfarminghawaii.net/
Hello, thanks for your videos they has been very helpful to me as a beginner of vanilla planting, can you please explain to mixing proportion of each nutrients and how to ferment bananas flower. Much appreciate, Robert L from Florida.
Hi mam. I'm from india . I want to start growing vanilla in green house . Your documententries are so helpful .really want to learn more . Please make more videos and teach us . One question : how many flowers we need to pollinate in one plant and how much green beans we can get from one plant after it is fully matured . Thanks in advance mam
For insects I use clove oil and water in a sprayer,it numbs insects to death. Got this from a olive grower this was the only ingredient i knew what it was. It works on roaches, spiders, wasps. Organic two. Love your simplied video. Easy to understand.
Hi Robert, watering the new cuttings will depend on what the normal rainfall is for your location. You do not want to water them too much though where they will become waterlogged and increase the risk of root rot. I water and fertilize for my area up in the hills no more than once a month. We get more rainfall than villages at sea-level. If I see the coconut husks and mulch looking dry, then this indicates that it is time to water them.
Hi Alwin, I spray the cuttings depending on the weather, if it is our rainy season then I only use the fertilizer mix every 2 months, and for the dry season, once a month.
Good morning Shelly. Why do you cut the top 3 leaves and why you tip off the top? Also does the size of the vine influence the years that the will start production?
Yes the length should be very very long and looped down to the ground so ground roots are established before encouraging the vine to produce flowers for production. When pruning, and if we want to use those prune cuttings as new plants, then we cut the top 3 leaves off (3/4) to encourage new growth faster.
Hi Shelley, I grow a vanilla vine in my 1st floor unit in Melbourne, Australia. After many years it produced some flowers and I managed to pollinate 3 flowers. I harvested 1 pod while it was going yellow and put in freezer, but the other 2 turned brown and nicely shrivelled and vanilla fragrant all of a sudden while I wasn't looking. I wonder if they cured themselves and would you know what I should do with them now ? They are quite soft but not rottened or split.
Hello Shelley, It's not that visible from the video what the process is in terms of clarity of the text. Is it possible to send it to me by email? Thank you in advance.
Mine is 50%. Ideally it should be between 60-75% shade. But I have a lot of talk trees around the perimeter of the vanilla which gives it additional shade
Aloha, Shelley! I'm a learning hobbyist trying to beautify the exterior of my home. My vanilla babies took some wind damage and I'm trying to figure out how to turn what didn't kill them into something that makes them stronger. They established themselves over the past nine months and had looked very healthy with robust growth (relatively quick from what I've read and been told by other plant enthusiasts). How long should we allow the vine to grow before looping (if there's an ideal length at all)? I recently had a couple vines get torn off the wall they were growing on due to high winds and their tips are close to the ground again. Should I loop them? Only about 4 meters long total (fell from about 12ft and now are attached up 6ft with the rest dangling) and now I'm wondering if I should loop them both or try looping one and attaching the other back to the wall (growing off a dead tree fern trunk in a corner of two walls and attached to the walls behind it). I'm tempted to experiment and loop only one. Your advice may sway me to loop both or neither. Mahalo in advance for your time and knowledge!
