Tropical Zone Gardening: Feed back from Tropical & Sub Tropical Gardeners, 1 by tropicbreeze

tropicbreeze wrote:
Where they grow vanilla here they put them on short posts so the plants can't go anywhere. A lot of orchids have evolved with one specific insect which pollinates it. It wasn't until a young slave worked out how to hand pollinate the vanilla that they began to be grown everywhere. I've got probably 20 or more plants. Every time a piece gets broken off I just put it up in the trees and off it goes up into the canopy. They look good zig-zagging their way up the tree trunk.