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They kind of gloss over the whole "he only has one day to notice a flower blooming" which implies he is doing hand pollination.

But I thought Mexico was one of the few places in the world that had natural vanilla pollinators?

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Those pollinators do well enough on random wild vanilla plants. They aren't honey bees that need to spend every daylight hour visiting hundreds of flowers. They simply can't do what's needed in a commercial vanilla patch.

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