Vanilla

Water

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

Needs about 1,810 mm of water here in its growing months. Rain gives about 540 mm it can use in a normal year, and 470 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 33 °C / 24 °C
• Jul 29 °C / 23 °C
• Aug 29 °C / 23 °C
• Sep 29 °C / 22 °C
• Oct 32 °C / 20 °C
• Nov 31 °C / 16 °C
• Dec 30 °C / 13 °C
• Jan 29 °C / 12 °C (outside its best range)
• Feb 33 °C / 14 °C
• Mar 36 °C / 18 °C
• Apr 38 °C / 22 °C
• May 38 °C / 25 °C (outside its best range)
• Jun 33 °C / 24 °C

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.
• Most fields here are short of nitrogen.
• Most fields here are short of boron.

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.