Vanilla

Water

Too dry to grow on rain alone. It would need irrigation.

Needs about 1,670 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 570 mm it can use in a normal year, and 540 mm in a dry year.

Temperature

Grows best at 21–30 °C on average, and survives 10–33 °C.

Here, in its growing months (day / night):

• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 34 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 33 °C / 26 °C
• Sep 33 °C / 24 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 28 °C / 14 °C (outside its best range)
• Dec 23 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Jan 21 °C / 9 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 25 °C / 11 °C (outside its best range)
• Mar 31 °C / 16 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 21 °C
• May 39 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 26 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in May get hotter than it likes. Young plants need shade and water then.

Soil

Soil for Vanilla: 8 out of 10 (good).

• The pH here suits it.
• Many fields here are short of potassium, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of organic carbon.

Likes pH 5.5–7.0.

Money

Yield: about 1.4 quintals an acre, the typical figure across India (no figures for your state).

A new planting gives its first real harvest after about 3 years. The money here is for plants already bearing.

Rain gives it too little of the water it needs, so there's no income figure on rain alone: grow it only with irrigation.

No mandi or support price for this crop yet.