No not really at all. The curing process is pretty extensive and the plants, when cut, smell more like bandaids than vanilla. The split pod in the above image smells intoxicating, so when they become ripe, they do smell like vanilla. However, to get nicely cured beans, requires about 3 months of processing. I’ll save up beans until I have enough to do a batch, but I wont have vanilla I can work with till prob spring.

You have to. There is no other option. Shoutout Edmond Albius.

Mostly just chicken manure. I also use a citrus/ avocado mix a couple times a year. They can handle less fertility than most garden plants can. Some growers run their beds very hot. Some don’t fertilize hardly at all or use extremely basically a mostly carbon compost

So I usually do about 1 tofu container of pelleted chicken 4 4x a yea, with about half a tofu container of a citrus/ avocado mix 2x per year, per vine. I had a friend try mj bloom fertilizer around flowering and he got very good results. I want to try that to see if I can get more flowers.

In the jungle they grow in pure leaf mulch, which is basically all carbon. And they don’t seem to mind at all.

Yeah its an interesting plant. It can survive high heat and no rain for quite a while, but it only really thrives if its got 60% + humidity. You don’t grow from seed, but from cutting. And even among orchids its a weirdo, because its both a) terrestrial and b) a vine. So an all around freak.

Allow me to tell you the story of the starfish and the beach…

A young girl was walking along a beach upon which thousands of starfish had been washed up during a terrible storm. When she came to each starfish, she would pick it up, and throw it back into the ocean. People watched her with amusement.

She had been doing this for some time when a man approached her and said, “Little girl, why are you doing this? Look at this beach! You can’t save all these starfish. You can’t begin to make a difference!”

The girl seemed crushed, suddenly deflated. But after a few moments, she bent down, picked up another starfish, and hurled it as far as she could into the ocean. Then she looked up at the man and replied,

“Well, I made a difference for that one!”

IF you can only do one push-up, thats enough. IF you can only walk around the block, its a start. An avalanche begins with the movement of a single pebble.

Be the Green Mario you wish to see in the world.

yeah shit sign me up.

Yep. 15 years in the trade. I even put together some cute python code to make bar plots where the bars were in the pattern of Vanilla vines with leaves in them. I just literally do not have the time to get back into it because I’m either writing or analyzing on 5 other papers at once and I’ve got two teams of analysts on other projects that I have to provide leadership for. It’s just not something I can justify spending my free time on.

It’s important to me that my hobbies don’t become burdensome so I’m more than happy to just let it sit for a time where I have a couple free cycles to write it up and publish. Well probably just get it out as a note in a local ag journal. We took the data with the intention of building a growing degree day model for Vanilla.

Sure I’ll go. I grow vanilla as a side project to many other things. I’ve done some controlled backyard experiments with replication between my vineyard and another in my community to look at the impact of temperature on growth rates.

We plan on publishing but I’ve got enough day job publications going at once right now that a hobby paper is something I have a hard time justifying the time for, but the data is done and collected. We just used one and paper.

one of the Lemmy developers is a hardcore communist,

To be clear, they roleplay as a “hardcore communist”, whatever that is. Its not any different than how billionaire sycophants with no access to capital make statements like “I’m a capitalist” while working minimum wage jobs.

Having a high-paying software engineering job while enjoying the social safety net that a liberal social-democracy provides, does not one a communist make.

lol wut

I’ve been trying o1 preview for a few weeks.

Wowza what a clownshow. Can I please just have 3.5 without guardrails?

new. no filters. it’s like drinking from a garden hose.

Click on all busses:

There is a short story in here about someone who can’t pass a captcha, loses their identity, and has to move on to becoming a fisherman in Norway.

Dude I can’t even pass a catchpa these day. I still don’t know if a e-bike is a scooter, a bike, or a moped.

meme^meme

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also known as thermobaric liberalism.

need memes as a whole explained

I think we could all use a good refresher. Also, why do the neighbors on the left now have to leave through the back gate to Egypt and still report their comings and going to the neighbors on the right?