Hand pollinating a vanilla orchid

[@amra8424]

The best visual description I've seen of hand pollination so far.

[@eddo2001]

Somebody should mention that it was the Mayans who discovered Vanilla, and it was a poor French African slave named Edmond Albius who discovered this very technique in the video on how to pollinate by hand, 300 years after Europeans 'discovered' the plant yet never figured it out. Albius died in poverty and was forgotten.

[@PictureMaria1]

Amazing video...my vanilla orchid has bloomed for the very first time and I will be attempting to pollinate it and capture it on one of my videos. I am hoping that I have better luck than the host on this video...LOL!!!

[@gergelynagyfugedi6864]

Yes, lol! :) Where they grow vanilla: mentioned once, where the kid is from: mentioned 6 times.

[@elosmilealways]

Vanilla another beautiful and delicious plant native to Mexico❤

[@mrkofi105]

Chris, that was nice! I am from Ghana, but lived in Crown Heights, Brooklyn. Makes you appreciate the work people put into the things we enjoy. You should have ask the girl if she has ever had ice cream?!

[@Vimlan123]

Hey chris....the bee that pollinates vanilla flowers is called melipone and it's only found in Mexico therefore vanilla farmers in the rest of the world have to hand pollinate hence the high price....similar to saffron. ..they are both the most expensive spice in the world

[@ndalivanilla1]

hey there, a variety of this same stingless bee is found in Uganda too

[@nicuursulean7676]

really inspiring, greetings from Cluj-Napoca, Romania

[@sanjibakri5015]

There's plenty of vanilla in this indonesi no sya 081317811629

[@tohopes]

Every time he fucks up a flower that's a bean that could have eventually been sold for $10 - $20 to the end user.

[@life.is.an.artjohnson5239]

Did he mention he was from Brooklyn?

[@evandai1557]

Yes

[@Peresphone]

thank you Edmond Albius, another story of an African person heavily impacting the world! He created the vanilla hand pollination method :)

[@honorinerochart4362]

Je vous remercie pour vos vidéos. J'ai un seul pied de vanille et j'ai pu fécondé mes premières fleurs après sept ans

[@ndalivanilla1]

Bonne chance Honorine!

[@SHARONSHORTOrchidsandGarden]

Thanks for sharing and happy growing.

[@renanmiranda3531]

Where the guy in the video is from?

[@jeannenewby6063]

You need to investigate Vanilla Production in Madascar - the farmers are not making a profit (due to synthetic production of vanilla elsewhere) :(. Very informative. Thank you.

[@dianabonier9011]

Madagascar vanila i controlled by france. French have factory there and pay the farmrs 1 euro a day. Control their price globally!

[@mrsseasea]

This video can echo...for every foreign food exported! Thank you!

[@sanjibakri5015]

There's plenty of vanilla in this indonesi no sya 081317811629

[@scottmataya7057]

"Is that a big deal around here, to send you kids to school?", he asks one of the women... as if there's any answer other than "Yes". Later he has the gall to ask an experienced farmer if he (the farmer) understands how time-consuming it is to hand pollinate EVERY vanilla pod. Seeing as how that's the ONLY way they get a crop yield, I already knew that it was time-consuming because I'd just watched it on this video, and the farmer DEFINITELY knew because, well, he's the farmer doing that day in day out. That leaves just one ignoramus: Brooklyn-dufus Chris.He finishes with, "So if you guys had me working on this farm, you wouldn't make any money...", they laugh politely after having watched him "try" to hand pollinate a half dozen pods with little to no care. A lot of ignorant questions asked by an ignorant interviewer... in my humble opinion. LOL, just noticed it was posted nearly a decade ago - teaches me to better check the dates

[@mistaowickkuh6249]

I feel you. They would have to force me and tell me it's okay 10 times at least before I even thought about touching any of the flowers, let alone attempting the process. I wouldn't even presume to do that out of sheer respect to people's labour. Who knows perhaps that's the case here and all the cringe cuts are just for dramatic effect? I'd like to imagine it that way.

[@jacobeksor6088]

This is amazing I haven’t seen vanilla before .

[@janbutis4lioness]

Amazing and time consuming of polinating every single Vanilla flowers. Surely there are some tiny bees that can do it. Well we have our native bees in the Solomon Islands that does polinate alot of our plants and they are growing Vanilla plants as well and its growing very well too.

[@I.amthatrealJuan]

2:37 That guide thought "this guy is dumb" and low key showed it

[@nasheemmohamed5653]

His face when you picked up that flower

[@VanessaKimbell]

I was there in June last year. I will never use anything but Ndali. It's utterly delicious, wonderfully dark, rich and smokey, with caramel tones. Brilliant film. You caught so much of it. If you check out goddess on a budget blog you can find details about my trip and recordings for BBC Radio 4 food programme.

[@jessemartinez6781]

Lucky for me I am in Mexico 😀 hello easy money !!

[@matthiasschulze393]

ok so what are the numbers? how much money does BJ give for vanilla

[@sanjibakri5015]

There's plenty of vanilla in this indonesi no sya 081317811629

[@freddyt55555]

The flowers are essentially being self-pollinated. I wonder what kind of implications it has in genetic diversity.

[@sportjunky4371]

ft55555 Not good implications i can imagine but hey thats agriculture for you. Its why the banana's we buy in shops nowadays have sterile seeds.

[@tohopes]

It doesn't matter because we eat all the seeds as vanilla spice anyway. They're not going to be planted.

[@anthonyrymer4391]

This is amazing, can't believe what goes into making vanilla ice cream.

[@arcforable]

Where’s he from again? he didn’t mention it enough

[@budysupriyono4132]

Nice bro. 👍

[@Gustava10]

2:02 he's like "shut up already white man😑"

[@solfeinberg437]

0:18 Is she wearing a Furious George shirt? As in the ultimate team?

[@michaellh04]

I see the broken 💔 over those lost beans

[@solfeinberg437]

Maybe they could directly encourage those bees. Bring them in, with little bee houses, and maybe plant other plants they like, intermittent with the vanilla?

[@lauratreasures]

The bees are ground dwelling. Melipona Bees.

[@maxali5320]

The vanilla is 100% Mexican is a gift that my country gave to the world stop saying that is from other parts of the world,vanilla chocolate ,tomatoes,avocado among other gifts from nature.

[@marginelouis6674]

no one said it was from africa

[@dixonmulula2063]

Thanks I see how to pollinate the vanilla

[@roymarsh8077]

I did a quick search and found the Mobuku Vanilla Farmers’ Association in the mountainous west of Uganda (short article on the FairTrade Web site). It's so labour intensive I wonder how much they end up getting paid. Steady income though.

[@amandajwarner]

Love it!

[@its_just_seb]

I sure hope these people were additionally compensated for their time and appearance in the video, as well as the loss taken from the destroyed flowers

[@ciceroaraujo5183]

Whats the specie of bee that does the polination

[@lauratreasures]

Melipona bee. A ground dwelling bee.

[@solfeinberg437]

Is there a discussion of what each bean costs? I'm thinking several dollars for each bean pod, on our end. I'm also thinking the entire pod is edible.

[@MsTokies]

Ben and Jerry rocks

[@potatopotatoeOG]

Okay thumbnail 😏☺

[@muhammadhussinamran1016]

No, now this is where vibranium hidden.

[@onepus1887]

👍

[@MonnyYell]

edmond albius created the process

[@lyndashericia85]

And died penniless. What a shame these greedy colonizers were

[@robr4607]

enjoy

[@tatianeac2258]

os colhedores ganham uma miséria enquanto os requintados restaurantes, lucram com a baunilha.

[@arletesoares4062]

Desse jeito, muita exploração com os produtores infelizmente

[@frederikc_]

Ben and Jerry's use synthetic vanilla ...

[@georgewashington8338]

You mean you're teaching people that the world is vastly unfair and that food actually comes from plants????

[@endor8witch]

it's worth reminding.

[@Mutlap]

unfair, other people have more, than you. are you better because you don't have more than others

[@ppmobile6252]

Hello boss could you send vanilla to me, i need plant it, i in laos

[@menantibintang]

salam kenal

[@jongumuzijndebele1022]

you killed six plants you better pay!

[@lauratreasures]

He didn't kill 6 plants. Just 5 or 6 flowers. Big different between 1 flower (which equals 1 bean) and a whole plant. Still cringe worthy though.

[@riseafricanyouthorganizati1797]

🤣🤣🤣🤣♥️♥️

[@dkgonzal]

I came to learn! but I did not...

[@dg-hughes]

Only 10 million more flowers to go.

[@BlahBlah-xz2cc]

Fair pay? wtf? Thats nothing like Modern-American Agriculture. Makes me feel good to see a company doing the right thing for once.

[@assasin101011]

"fair trade" so funny! ha ha ha!

[@rochellebaldecir8375]

Blank Garcia people work hard to get vanilla, so in turn, they get a good amount of money

[@21boxhead]

Vanilla originates from Mexico not Africa

[@frankielofaro4778]

that's why they need to hand pollinate them, because the pollinator does not live there.

[@brightstarlavandula3028]

I guess, vanilla origin from southeast asia... Surely...

[@tohopes]

Things from Africa come to America and things from America come to Africa.. such is the story of the world. Used to be that Africa and South America were one landmass. Many closely related species native to both continents.

[@maxali5320]

tohopes vanilla originated after the separation of the continents in what is now México study a little bit ,go to Wikipedia before you talk.

[@lauratreasures]

They never claimed they originated from Africa.

[@dkgonzal]

ommm

[@johnpublic3077]

Ben and Jerry's vanilla tastes like nothing.

[@0i0eYeZonYoU0i0]

I wonder if they ever tasted Vanilla Icecream.

[@dudefacial]

Hah I’m going to be that guy who thinks this host is horrible. He literally asked the people who do it every single day if they know how time consuming it is! 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@nickeshamontoute2045]

Did you really ask is it a big deal to send your children to school ? What type of question is that?

[@dianabonier9011]

American propaganda, fair price???? Madagascar is strugglong their vanilas are controled by french nd the farmers are paid 1 euro per day!

[@marginelouis6674]

this is uganda. Ben and jerry's is american. What does this have to do with france and madagascar?

[@dianabonier9011]

@@marginelouis6674 did you watch the video stupid ass? Its about fair trade with American ice cr3am companies in which case its not fair. They are under paid.

[@spring291]

empty your mind dude!!!

[@fulbertoferrari1599]

Do you know da wey?

[@bubbagump1306]

Is that a big deal to send your kids to school? Umm, duhhh.