Vanilla vines take two to four years to fully mature, and their flowers only bloom on one day of the year. For the plants to produce beans, they must be pollinated that day. Vanilla do not self ...

When Bellier-Beaumont was walking through his gardens one day in 1841, he noticed something surprising - a pair of fruits on a vanilla vine. The plant was the only surviving vine of a number of ...

Now he has 2,000 vanilla vines on a 1,200 sq m (0.3 acre) farm in Blora, Central Java, started after he did some internet research and joined online groups of vanilla farmers.