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By Piero Bianchessi, Former Owner and Operator of Venui Vanilla

Goal 1 : to reduce the number of beans to 100 per plant (approximately) by eliminating under sized, crooked, or sick beans, and beans growing on wilted or sick vines

When : 6 to 8 weeks after pollination when the beans reach their full size

FACTS : 

(1) The beans reach full size 6 or 7 weeks after pollination and will ripen after 6 or 7 months – a total of 9 months (approximately). 

(2) In the last few days of maturation a sugar (glucovanillin) will develop inside the beans. This sugar is essential for the development of the vanilla aroma!

PROCESS : 

Eliminate all the small, crooked, or sick beans, and all beans on sick or wilted vines.