Hand pollinating a vanilla orchid

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  • Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
  • Pollinating a vanilla flower by hand ain't easy. Ndali took Ben & Jerry's to meet our farmers during vanilla harvest. Sasu, Ndali's Fairtrade and Organic Field Officer shows us how its done.

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  • @PictureMaria1
    @PictureMaria1 5 лет назад +12

    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
    @gergelynagyfugedi6864 11 лет назад +21

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

  • @amra8424
    @amra8424 4 года назад +4

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

  • @tohopes
    @tohopes 6 лет назад +19

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

  • @Vimlan123
    @Vimlan123 2 года назад +4

    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
      @ndalivanilla1  Год назад

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

  • @eddo2001
    @eddo2001 Год назад +2

    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.

  • @elosmilealways
    @elosmilealways 3 года назад +2

    Vanilla another beautiful and delicious plant native to Mexico❤

  • @scottmataya7057
    @scottmataya7057 2 года назад +4

    "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
      @mistaowickkuh6249 2 года назад

      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.

  • @mrkofi105
    @mrkofi105 9 лет назад +6

    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?!

  • @nicuursulean7676
    @nicuursulean7676 5 лет назад +2

    really inspiring, greetings from Cluj-Napoca, Romania

    • @sanjibakri5015
      @sanjibakri5015 3 года назад

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

  • @life.is.an.artjohnson5239
    @life.is.an.artjohnson5239 11 лет назад +30

    Did he mention he was from Brooklyn?

  • @Peresphone
    @Peresphone 2 года назад

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

  • @renanmiranda3531
    @renanmiranda3531 7 лет назад +11

    Where the guy in the video is from?

  • @jeannenewby6063
    @jeannenewby6063 9 лет назад +5

    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
      @dianabonier9011 5 лет назад +2

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

  • @jacobeksor6088
    @jacobeksor6088 6 лет назад +2

    This is amazing I haven’t seen vanilla before .

  • @janbutis4lioness
    @janbutis4lioness 10 лет назад +4

    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.

  • @mrsseasea
    @mrsseasea 7 лет назад

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

    • @sanjibakri5015
      @sanjibakri5015 3 года назад

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

  • @maxali5320
    @maxali5320 5 лет назад +2

    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.

  • @nasheemmohamed5653
    @nasheemmohamed5653 3 года назад

    His face when you picked up that flower

  • @SHARONSHORTOrchidsandGarden
    @SHARONSHORTOrchidsandGarden 8 лет назад +1

    Thanks for sharing and happy growing.

  • @anthonyrymer4391
    @anthonyrymer4391 8 лет назад +4

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

  • @I.amthatrealJuan
    @I.amthatrealJuan 4 года назад +2

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

  • @its_just_seb
    @its_just_seb 3 года назад +1

    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

  • @jessemartinez6781
    @jessemartinez6781 3 года назад

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

  • @honorinerochart4362
    @honorinerochart4362 Год назад

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

  • @solfeinberg437
    @solfeinberg437 6 лет назад +1

    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?

  • @michaellh04
    @michaellh04 3 года назад

    I see the broken 💔 over those lost beans

  • @freddyt55555
    @freddyt55555 10 лет назад +5

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

    • @sportjunky4371
      @sportjunky4371 9 лет назад +3

      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
      @tohopes 6 лет назад +3

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

  • @VanessaKimbell
    @VanessaKimbell 11 лет назад +2

    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.

  • @matthiasschulze393
    @matthiasschulze393 11 лет назад +5

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

    • @sanjibakri5015
      @sanjibakri5015 3 года назад

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

  • @dixonmulula2063
    @dixonmulula2063 5 лет назад

    Thanks I see how to pollinate the vanilla

  • @roymarsh8077
    @roymarsh8077 10 лет назад

    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.

  • @Gustava10
    @Gustava10 2 года назад

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

  • @awar5480
    @awar5480 11 лет назад

    Love it!

  • @arcforable
    @arcforable 2 года назад

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

  • @muhammadhussinamran1016
    @muhammadhussinamran1016 3 года назад

    No, now this is where vibranium hidden.

  • @budysupriyono4132
    @budysupriyono4132 4 года назад

    Nice bro. 👍

  • @potatopotatoeOG
    @potatopotatoeOG 3 года назад

    Okay thumbnail 😏☺

  • @onepus1887
    @onepus1887 10 месяцев назад

    👍

  • @solfeinberg437
    @solfeinberg437 6 лет назад +1

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

  • @MsTokies
    @MsTokies 11 лет назад

    Ben and Jerry rocks

  • @solfeinberg437
    @solfeinberg437 6 лет назад

    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.

  • @frederikc_
    @frederikc_ 2 года назад

    Ben and Jerry's use synthetic vanilla ...

  • @MonnyYell
    @MonnyYell 5 лет назад +1

    edmond albius created the process

    • @lyndashericia85
      @lyndashericia85 5 лет назад

      And died penniless. What a shame these greedy colonizers were

  • @tatianeac2258
    @tatianeac2258 5 лет назад +1

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

    • @arletesoares4062
      @arletesoares4062 3 года назад

      Desse jeito, muita exploração com os produtores infelizmente

  • @jongumuzijndebele1022
    @jongumuzijndebele1022 5 лет назад +1

    you killed six plants you better pay!

    • @lauratreasures3816
      @lauratreasures3816 5 лет назад +1

      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.

  • @georgewashington8338
    @georgewashington8338 10 лет назад +8

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

    • @endor8witch
      @endor8witch 6 лет назад

      it's worth reminding.

    • @Mutlap
      @Mutlap 6 лет назад

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

  • @menantibintang
    @menantibintang 2 года назад

    salam kenal

  • @BlahBlah-xz2cc
    @BlahBlah-xz2cc 9 лет назад +1

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

  • @ciceroaraujo5183
    @ciceroaraujo5183 5 лет назад

    Whats the specie of bee that does the polination

  • @robr4607
    @robr4607 6 лет назад

    enjoy

  • @dg-hughes
    @dg-hughes 6 лет назад

    Only 10 million more flowers to go.

  • @assasin101011
    @assasin101011 6 лет назад +2

    "fair trade" so funny! ha ha ha!

    • @rochellebaldecir8375
      @rochellebaldecir8375 4 года назад

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

  • @21boxhead
    @21boxhead 8 лет назад +6

    Vanilla originates from Mexico not Africa

    • @frankielofaro4778
      @frankielofaro4778 7 лет назад +2

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

    • @brightstarlavandula3028
      @brightstarlavandula3028 6 лет назад

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

    • @tohopes
      @tohopes 6 лет назад +2

      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
      @maxali5320 5 лет назад

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

    • @lauratreasures3816
      @lauratreasures3816 5 лет назад +2

      They never claimed they originated from Africa.

  • @ppmobile6252
    @ppmobile6252 3 года назад

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

  • @dkgonzal
    @dkgonzal 11 лет назад

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

  • @johnpublic3077
    @johnpublic3077 11 лет назад +1

    Ben and Jerry's vanilla tastes like nothing.

  • @dudefacial
    @dudefacial 3 года назад

    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! 🤦🏻‍♂️

  • @0i0eYeZonYoU0i0
    @0i0eYeZonYoU0i0 7 лет назад

    I wonder if they ever tasted Vanilla Icecream.

  • @dkgonzal
    @dkgonzal 11 лет назад

    ommm

  • @riseafricanyouthorganizati1797
    @riseafricanyouthorganizati1797 3 года назад

    🤣🤣🤣🤣♥️♥️

  • @nickeshamontoute2045
    @nickeshamontoute2045 3 года назад

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

  • @dianabonier9011
    @dianabonier9011 5 лет назад +1

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

    • @marginelouis6674
      @marginelouis6674 5 лет назад

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

    • @dianabonier9011
      @dianabonier9011 5 лет назад

      @@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
    @spring291 11 лет назад

    empty your mind dude!!!

  • @fulbertoferrari1599
    @fulbertoferrari1599 6 лет назад

    Do you know da wey?

  • @bubbagump1306
    @bubbagump1306 4 года назад

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