10 rules for keeping cut flowers fresh longer (without using chemical additives)

    10 rules for keeping cut flowers fresh longer (without using chemical additives)

    Although it is always preferable to test and exercise your green thumb on live plants, learning to grow and care for them at home or in the garden, keep in mind that some small tricks allow us to keep even cut flowers fresh longer, slowing their decline. . Here are 10 tips to prolong the splendor of the flowers you received as a gift (assuming that the florist who sold them acted in good faith and did not pass off as fresh flowers that are already a bit "dated"):



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    Receive a nice bunch of fiori, you know, it's always nice, whether it's a special occasion - the birthday, for an special anniversary, Valentine's day… - or a surprise gift. Too bad, however, that the cut flowers wither so quickly, losing its luminous and shining aspect within a few hours and giving way to Dry leaves e faded and falling petals...



    Although it is always preferable to test and exercise your green thumb up plants lives, learning to grow and care for them at home or in garden, keep in mind that some small tricks allow us to keep even i fresh longer cut flowers, slowing their decline.

    Here then 10 tips to prolong the splendor of the flowers you received as a gift (assuming that the florist who sold them acted in good faith and did not pass off some "dated" flowers as fresh):

    1. Immediately place your flowers in a sufficiently large and clean vase with somewater as fresh as possible.

    2. The ssheets must be checked regularly, cutting them obliquely, 2-3 cm from the bottom, with a nice pair of sharp scissors, and they must not be crushed or broken. Sprouting the stem allows the flower to absorb water better: for this purpose, if the stem is particularly woody, as in the case of flowering branches, make a small incision at its end.

    3. Don't overdo the water: the level of liquid in your jar does not must exceed half of the flower stem. The water, then, must be changed regularly, at most every 2 days, so that it does not rot.

    4. Always remove the leaves remained below the water level, to prevent them from rotting and proliferating in your pot mushrooms e bacteria, which represent the first cause of wilting of cut flowers.


    5. To slow the decline of your flowers, it is important to use a antibacterial, preferably natural: for example, you can pour 1 tbsp vinegar for each liter of water or dissolve aaspirin o 2 drops of bleach.


    6. To nourish your flowers and keep them more beautiful, you can enrich the vase water with 1 tbsp XNUMX/XNUMX cup sugar cane.


    7. Always remove dried leaves and flowers, which could “infect” the stem and other flowers in the vase.

    8. Cut flowers should never be placed close to heat sources, as lamps, direct sunlight o heatersnor should they be exposed to strong air currents.

    9. During the day, ventilate the room in which you hold your flowers, so that they can "breathe".

    10 If it is not too cold and there is no stormy air (see point 8), it is advisable at night keep the pot outdoors, perhaps on a balcony.

    Lisa Vagnozzi

     

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