Domingos CBB Gomes
Visiting Professor Forestry, UNTL & UNPAZ, Dili, Timor-Leste

ABSTRACT
The Vanilla planifolia Andrews plants is a plantation commodity with high economic value and stablemarket price and is one of the quite valuable export commodities, which can increase a farmer’s income. Using Randomized Design Group with two factors as media treatment combined with the three types of soil and the diameter of the vanilla stem. The results of research shown the media treatment, planting with comparison (1:2:1) combined with the diameter of the vanilla stem treatment code 3.25 (M1D3) can increase the growth of plant vanilla seed. The real interaction happening against the growth of vanilla seedling on media treatment of planting coffee bark compost with a diameter of stem. On the media’s treatment of planting soil + sand + compost by comparison (1:2:1) is the best composition with the maximum diameter stem of 3.25 mm vanilla is ideal with maximum results. Manleuana soil type and soil type Comoro is suitable for soil type seedling of vanilla stem.

Key Words: Farmers’, Vanilla, Compost, Coffee, Skin, Diameter, Growth, Soil type