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I've set up the rest of my vanilla beans in an informal version of the "turned off dehydrator" that led to vanillin developing on the one forgotten pod described in the post above. It's just a rack on my desk. This spot is dry, out of the sun, gets natural variation in warm and cold during the diurnal cycle, has maximum airflow, and since it's on my desk, I can keep an eye on it. The remarkable part is that even tho my house is basically outdoors, the area smells like vanilla. It's heavenly 😊 Another interesting fact: the vanilla plant that produced the flowers that made these pods last year, well this year it has no flowers at all. If I recall correctly, the flowers were happening last April. I wonder why it hasn't made any this year. Maybe our long rainy season this year (it only just got dry a few weeks ago) delayed the start of flowers? I really don't know. #vanilla #gardening #food #plants #hawaii