Vanilla

Water

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

Needs about 1,840 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 450 mm it can use in a normal year, and 370 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 / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jul 32 °C / 26 °C
• Aug 31 °C / 25 °C
• Sep 32 °C / 25 °C
• Oct 35 °C / 22 °C
• Nov 33 °C / 17 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 28 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 31 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 35 °C / 19 °C
• Apr 39 °C / 23 °C (outside its best range)
• May 40 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 37 °C / 27 °C (outside its best range)

Months in orange are outside its best range.

Days in April 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 sulphur, which it needs a lot.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.

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.