Edmond Albius's method of pollination is now used by all vanilla growers

<a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CIEVrBLmF70" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.youtube.com&#x2F;watch?v=CIEVrBLmF70</a><p>I was curious to see if there was a video of it being done and this seems to be it. Incredibly delicate is an understatement.

I find this fascinating. But I’m really curious about whether this self pollination is causing problems with vanilla’s robustness due to a lack of cross pollination.

What is this deft gesture? Is there a description of the actual method or how it works?

If it is this hard to pollinate how in the world did vanilla evolve to survive??

Url changed from <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldsensorium.com&#x2F;the-boy-who-was-king-of-vanilla&#x2F;" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;worldsensorium.com&#x2F;the-boy-who-was-king-of-vanilla&#x2F;</a>, which points to this.