On Thu, 22 Jul 2010 14:27:53 -1000, pure kona >
wrote:
>
> Well likely she has a better chance than I. Perhaps she should
> practice on her kitchen vanilla. The rules, as I remember them, are
> the day the flower opens, you have between 10 am and noon, to get it
> pollinated.
>
> I did want people to be cautious because I have seen 2 large vanilla
> orchid "farms" of friends, go to weeds here in Kona. Sounds easy and
> vanilla grows so well here- circling all of my tree ferns and just so
> healthy, but despite the health and adequate flowers-through my
> attempts and that of a friend- no pod ever.

I was the one with stars in my eyes, not her. They already own three
seed corn farms in Iowa, pretty much know how farming goes and farm
for a profit.
>
> BTW we have the Tahitian vanilla growing here and it has its special
> moth in Tahiti.

Too bad some Hawaiian moth hasn't asked where the vanilla orchid has
been all its life.

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Forget the health food. I need all the preservatives I can get.