@ewsflash I’m from Sri Lanka. Much of the low country is burning hot but my area is around 25-27c on average. Dec - January it goes down to around 15 - 22c but that’s all. That’s a really good climate for vanilla. But you will like it in Nuwara Eliya where the average temp would be around 15c on average and somewhere around 9c in Dec - January.
@bogman we don’t cure vanilla. It’s a really time consuming task that needs precision. We sell it to bulk buyers who also do the curing. It should be sold the same day it’s harvested, or it won’t be cured to the proper quality.
Curing starts with “killing” a process in which you dip the vanilla precisely between 1 - 3 minutes in hot water, depending on how hot the water is.
Then follows Sweating, Drying, and Conditioning.
To be honest, we never actually use vanilla, except for whatever “vanilla flavoured” comes from shops(but that’s just artificial flavours, lol).
But we put a vanilla bean in the tea leaves bottle, so the tea would get vanilla flavour. That’s all. 
