On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 15:50:02 -0700, sf > wrote:

>On Wed, 21 Jul 2010 16:47:28 -0600, "gloria.p" >
>wrote:
>
>>
>> Vanilla beans/pods are the fruit of a species of orchid. Therefore they
>> will grow anywhere (tropical) where orchids grow.
>
>They aren't easy to grow either. A friend who owns land up in the
>mountains of Costa Rica tried and didn't become a vanilla farmer.


I have been trying in my kitchen for 2 years. I do have a really
beautiful vanilla orchid plant, though.

Boron