Sunday, November 24, 2024
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മലയാളം
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Agriculture > Spices
> Vanilla (Vanilla planifolia)
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Crop Management
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Establishing Orchard
Vanilla garden is established by planting either 1m long vine cuttings or rooted
cuttings raised in polybag or tissue culture plantlets secondary hardened to attain
at least 30 cm height. If shorter cuttings/plantlets are used ,the juvenile phase
would be longer. Care should be taken to use cuttings collected either from nurseries
or juvenile unflowered portion of vine from a garden as yielded/over matured part
of vanilla vine may not sprout properly. The ideal time for planting vanilla is
when the weather is neither too rainy nor too dry. Planting is usually done during
August - September , mostly the period between South West and North East monsoon.
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Vanilla is highly amenable to organic cultivation. Decomposed organic matter, bonemeal,
rotten cow dung, compost, fermented cakes etc. can be used as manure for vanilla
at least twice in a year i.e.,during June-July and September –October. Adequate
irrigation is to be provided for better vegetative growth of the plant during the
initial two years of establishment. From the third year onwards, irrigation is to
be provided immediately after the period of blooming.
The support trees may be pruned to form an umbrella shaped appearance about 1.5–2
m above the ground. This is to give better shade and protection to the growing vines.
The vines are allowed to grow upto a height of 1.2 –1.5 m. Then they are trained
horizontally on the branches and coiled round the standard. Bending of vines in
this manner helps in accumulation of carbohydrate and other flower forming materials
beyond the bend and to induce flower production at this portion of the vine.
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