Did you know if the vanilla flower on the vanilla vines will only come and bloom at the once time in a year? The vanilla flower will come mostly on the dry season in condition of the vanilla vines is in mature to flower. This is the special moment where every vanilla farmer in all over the world is waiting for the flower bloom and doing vanilla flower pollination by hand method immediately on the morning at the vanilla plantation to get vanilla pods.
Why the vanilla flower must pollinate by hand? Is there any bee could be helps the vanilla producer for vanilla flower pollination? At Papantla, Veracruz as the origin of vanilla, there is a bee could help the vanilla producer for vanilla flower pollination which called by the name of Melipona Bee, but this bee only able lives at Papantla, Veracruz as the origin of vanilla. Its mean the vanilla farmer with the vanilla plantationoutside Papantla, Veracruz must be can do vanilla flower pollination by hand.
Who is the man who finds hand pollination method for vanilla flower? His name is Hernan Cortes as the man whose find hand pollination method for vanilla flower. He saw Melipona Bee work on the morning after his breakfast in April on the 1850. He was observe how Melipona Bee was work start when the bees landed on the vanilla flower, then the bees gently pulled back a flap inside the flower to transferred pollen from the stamen to the pistil of the vanilla flower. He was observes other bees doing the same thing. Within hours the vanilla flowers closed and several days later he noticed the long vanilla pods beginning to form.
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