What did he make the trellis from? I'd love to see a picture of it. Trying to build one now and need ideas.

It's just a bare strip of lattice wood that he mounted to the wall to secure it. We added to strips to give it a more "finished" look but I saw a beautiful vanilla (easily 100') at a greenhouse I visited that was growing in and out of a similar lattice.

You won't have any worries, Vanilla grows like crazy but it does break easily. Put the cutting into a well aerated mix and keep moist, they don't like to be smothered in soil and deprived of air. I often get pieces falling from trees and just place them at the base of another tree. Because they're a single stemmed plant cuttings is the only way you can thicken them up to give a bushier look.

When "reusing" longer, broken off parts of the Vanilla orchid does it have to be in soil or a soil mix? Can it just be attached to a tree ?

Thank you! The "cutting" seems to be doing well a week later. Aerial roots are reaching out and a gentle nudge at the base offered resistance - so I'm hoping it is establishing itself.

Sounds good :) Those aerial roots will feed the plant as well. When you see new growth, including new leaves, you will know your plant has reestablished itself. (I like chocolate hehehe)

John

Greenacreskid, provided there's enough humidity you don't need to put anything on the cutting. I've found that if you do then that part of the stem underground usually rots. If conditions aren't ideal you could lose the whole plant. When laying them against a tree I usually put some leaves over the base of the cutting, it helps retain humidity without smothering the plant. Here's one taking off from a cutting laying on the ground.

Here's one of mine growing on a tree. I'd like to get it off tree and have it grow across a trellis. I know I might break off a few pieces in the process so I'll try to attach them to the trelis. Thank all of you for the advice.

http://forums.gardenweb.com/discussions/3387948/vanilla-break-any-ideas

Ihate to bump a year old post but it is urgent. I broke a leaf off my vanilla orchid and it has not regrown. It is 3 inches tall, but it has an extremely small bump growing from the bottom of the nearest leaf that pushed out the old stem, could it be a new stem? (To small to see on camera)

relax, there is no urgency. It may be a new growth or a root. Regardless, it is an alive healthy young plant. Any new growing activity is good. Always. But it is so small it may be a while until it blooms. And when it blooms the flower lasts for hours only. But it is sequential and another bloom will follow.

Like 2 years?

2 years and still like that? That's not normal. What sort of climatic conditions is it in?

eliminate quantifying when. Grow for the sake of growing and let the rewards come. Be in the moment and have patience...

Oh, I mean will it bloom in 2 years

And I mean you need to be here now. Take care of your plant and it will bloom. The better you care for it the sooner it will bloom. If it becomes stressed it will slow it down or kill it. So stop asking when and be concerned more about now.

To enhance your experience, join your local orchid society. They will afford the best advice as they deal with the same climate as you. What I do here may kill an orchid somewhere else.

OK, but anyway, I was looking and sometimes it has "growths". How can I help it regrow? I was thinking about giving an extremely small amount of nitrogen ( I have raw nitrogen, phosphorus, and potassium) but I thought it was to risky

I have another thing, I want to help it regrow, and grow regardless, but its been a month, is supposed to regrow the stem quickly and grow very fast at this stage?

Sorry I keep writing comments, (the other wouldn't edit). Anyway it has a tiny leaf that didn't callus when I broke the leaf, will it grow?