The best time is in early summer - how to cut cuttings correctly
If a vanilla is fully in the juice, the floral life pulsates right down to the tips of the shoots. This is the time when you get the most vital cuttings of the season. Choose a healthy, non-flowering tendril. Cut this into pieces with at least 3 pairs of leaves. The lower pair of leaves is removed in order to increase the shoot area for the new roots.
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Please mark the polarity on each cutting. If an offshoot is accidentally inserted into the substrate in the opposite direction, it will not take root. Furthermore, carry out all cutting work with protective gloves. The sap of a vanilla orchid is light poisonous and can cause uncomfortable itching.
Step-by-step instructions
In addition to the prepared cuttings, please have small pots ready for the rooting. We recommend lean as a substrate
Potting soil or a mix of peat and sand. It continues in these steps:- Fill the recommended substrate into the pot and moisten it with lime-free water
- Pre-drill the planting hole for each cutting with a pricking or wooden stick
- In each pot, plant half an offshoot, whereby no leaves are allowed to get under the ground
- Insert a support rod into the substrate and loosely tie the cutting to it
Finally, put a transparent plastic bag over the vessel to generate a tropical, humid microclimate. In the light to partially shaded window seat, keep the substrate slightly moist at 25 degrees Celsius and ventilate the hood daily.
Tips
The quality of real vanilla from the kingdom of mother nature is still unmatched. All attempts at synthetic production have so far failed. The only result is the well-known vanilla sugar from the store shelf, which cannot even begin to compete with bourbon vanilla. While artificial vanillin only contains a single organic component, it settles natural vanilla composed of more than 250 organic components.
