Nov 13th, 2006
How to prolong the cut flowers life?
This is generally possible using the flower nutrition, as liquid or granules, (the flower nutrition’s dissolution has to be made into another vase, not directly into flower vase, in warm water) and, on the other hand, using the chemical solutions to destroy the bacteria that is speeding up the putrefaction process.There are several techniques of keeping the cut flower’s life:
* Cleansing the inferior part of the stem, which remain in water, of leafs, flowers or sprigs, because those are disintegrating and there comes the reek.
* Averting the leafs from the entire stem. This practice is used to ligneous species, like the lilac, of which leafs are exuding and than the flower is not longer hydrated.
* The cut of the stem at a very sharp angle 1 1/2 to 2 inches below the end of the stem that the absorption area would be as large as the flower need to be hydrated. If you want to refresh the flower, cut the stem once more. Is good for the flower to be cut under water, blocking the air to break in.
* The smash of the ligneous stem’s base. Is a practice for the lilac, rose or chrysanthemum and that increases the hydration degree. Also is used the split of the stem’s base for a 3-5 inches section.
* Introducing the stem’s base into boiled water, for 5 to 10 seconds, or burning it, destroying the stem’s down which is disintegrating under water. This is put into practice for the species like gerbera, sunflower etc. This practice is also used to refresh the lilac, rose. Don’t forget to enshroud the flower, protecting it of hot vapors.
* Getting the stem’s base into warm water (30-40 degrees). That’s for the stems of the flowers which excrete a viscous substance, like the daffodil, that got to be separated from the other flowers. After the flow of the latex, put them in cold water.
* Filling the empty stem of water, to the flowers like gerbera and keeping them with the flower turned downward overnight.
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