[HN Gopher] Edmond Albius's method of pollination is now used by...
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Edmond Albius's method of pollination is now used by all vanilla
growers
Author : dnetesn
Score : 116 points
Date : 2024-06-11 12:20 UTC (3 days ago)
(HTM) web link (nautil.us)
(TXT) w3m dump (nautil.us)
| encodedrose wrote:
| https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CIEVrBLmF70
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| 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.
| po wrote:
| Thank you for looking it up!
|
| Is there a name for the practice of embedding a completely
| unrelated video into the middle of an article? I find this
| practice to be so mystifying. Does that work on readers?
| monero-xmr wrote:
| Those vanilla plants can go fuck themselves. But seriously
| Hitton wrote:
| Thanks, it beggars belief that they could publish the article
| without such substantial piece of information.
| swayvil wrote:
| Maybe it was written by an AI. I'm serious. That a human would
| leave out that crucial component is indeed boggling.
|
| An AI. Writing and publishing a stream of mid-quality articles.
| With ads inserted. Profit. Occasionally insane.
| vintagedave wrote:
| Here's a strange quote from it:
|
| > In the early 1800s, it was introduced to the Netherlands
| and France, where it ... became a hit with Elizabeth I, among
| other royals
|
| Elizabeth I was English and died in 1603. Two centuries
| before the 1800s. I am suspicious of AI for this article too.
| vundercind wrote:
| Nearly every place that has writers on staff for any
| purpose is trying to have 1/4 as many (at most) just edit
| AI output.
|
| The way they tune productivity is deliberately reducing
| quality of the editing. I'm not kidding.
| dang wrote:
| Url changed from https://worldsensorium.com/the-boy-who-was-king-
| of-vanilla/, which points to this.
| camkego wrote:
| 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.
| dgan wrote:
| Exactly my thought, if the membrane was evolutionally
| justified, there has to be downsides
| ceejayoz wrote:
| It's there to prevent self-polination.
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| Good for evolution, bad for a crop monoculture.
| throwup238 wrote:
| The membrane's evolutionary justification might be to force
| pollinators deeper into the flower, guaranteeing that it
| touches both the pollen and the stigma. It's a relatively
| common adaptation in flowers.
| prepend wrote:
| Evolution's goals are different from vanilla ice cream
| makers' goals.
| cwmma wrote:
| the seeds created by the self pollination aren't used to grow
| more vanilla plants the seed pods it creates are taken and
| processed.
|
| To create more vanilla plants they take cuttings or similar
| methods to create a genetically identical plant without using a
| seed.
| LoganDark wrote:
| What is this deft gesture? Is there a description of the actual
| method or how it works?
| nytesky wrote:
| If it is this hard to pollinate how in the world did vanilla
| evolve to survive??
| boomboomsubban wrote:
| It survived just fine where it evolved, as the bee necessary
| for pollination was common.
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