How to keep cut roses for a long time

What could be more beautiful than a chic pink bouquet? And what can be sadder than watching the fact that two days later the flowers piled their beautiful heads sideways, and the petals with a quiet rustle fall to the floor? Particularly offensive, if it's beautiful blue roses, which are not easy to buy, and they are very expensive.

Of course, you can calm yourself with a bike, that a bouquet presented from a pure heart would have stood longer. And you can properly prepare roses and after enjoying their long life in the vase. How to keep the cut roses fresh?

Selection of a bouquet

If the rose is chosen by hand, the flower should be:

1. Not fading. Fully opened flowers with dried petals are not suitable, as are unripe buds, which will not have enough energy for ripening and opening.
2. Not fading. To determine the degree of freshness of the rose flower will help the leaves that frame the bud. If they tightly embrace it - the flower is cut off recently, if bent down - the rose has been for several days.

It will be ideal if flowers are cut off the day before in the early morning or in the evening hours, when buds are in the best tone.

It is necessary to pay attention to transportation. Flowers should be carefully packed, so that cold air does not burn petals, do not hit the direct rays of the sun, did not blow a draft. It is not superfluous to wrap the ends of the stems with a damp cloth or paper.

If flowers are not planned to be presented right away, we must ensure proper storage of roses. The best cut roses are stored in special floristic refrigerators. The rose, together with the head, is tightly wrapped in paper and lowered into water so that the heads are located above the water. At a temperature of + 5º C, the rose can be stored for 5 days.

Before you put the bouquet in the vase

In the cold season, the bouquet can not be unpacked immediately. Packed flowers should lie down for a while in a cool place. The desire to warm roses faster will lead to their rapid withering.

How to keep cut roses sold in winter and early spring? They are grown in greenhouse conditions and are not adapted to dry warm air of living quarters. In flower shops, bouquets that are already dehydrated are often sold. They can be "repelled" by updating the sections under a gentle jet of water and placing the stems on 2/3 of the length in water at room temperature. Buds should not touch the water. After 3 hours, remove roses, carefully remove the thorns and lower leaves.

When staged in a vase of excess vegetation under the water should not be - only the stems.

Sliced flowers must be updated with a knife with a very sharp blade, so that water would better flow to the flowers. You can split the slices and scrape the peel on the ends.

It is desirable to wash the vase with a disinfectant. Water for a bouquet should be settled for at least 3 hours to remove harmful impurities. To maintain the colors in the tone, you can add a special fertilizer to the water for cut flowers. It contains nutrients and antiseptic. It can be partially replaced with a spoonful of sugar, added to 1 liter of water, several boric acid crystals and an aspirin tablet.

The vase is selected in such a way that the stems could be immersed in water for 2/3 of the length.

To prevent putrefaction, a drop of bleach is added to the water, but this applies only to flowers grown for sale. Local garden roses do not like it.

Care for cut flowers

How to keep the cut roses now, when the preparations are finished, the bouquet is put in a vase and pleases the eye? It is necessary to perform simple actions:

• Water is regularly replaced with fresh, settled.
• Sections are also regularly washed with running water and updated.
• Vase should be periodically rinsed with detergent.
• Regular spraying will prolong the roses life. But inside the buds water should not fall.
• Neighborhood of a pink bouquet with vegetables and fruits is not allowed. Ethanol, released by the fruit, causes premature wilting of flowers. Other roses do not like roses either.
• You can not put roses in any heating appliances.

In addition, roses can not stand tobacco smoke, direct sunlight, drafts. If possible, at night, roses should be moved to a cool place. If not, wrap the bouquet with paper and put it in a bucket of water.

Operation resuscitation. Save the withered bouquet

Nothing lasts forever, the flowers begin to fade and fade. How can roses help in this situation? How to keep the cut roses another few days? There are emergency measures, briefly returning the roses the former grandeur. Tips Florist:

- Update the edges by cutting the stalks diagonally. Wrap the heads of roses and leaves with damp paper. If the wilting is insignificant - immerse the stems for a few minutes into water with a temperature of +40 ° C. The vessels will open, the flowers will be saturated with moisture and will come to life.

- If the flowers are withered thoroughly, the slices will have to be immersed 3 cm in steep boiling water, hold for half a minute. Then move them to the cool water that is standing still.

- Another method: scrape off the cuticle by 5 cm above the cuts and scorch over the fire the slices and the bottom of the stem. The flower heads will rise again.

People's Council: add a spoonful of ammonia to the vase with flowers.

A bouquet of roses, if taken care of, can give joy very, very long.