Now you know everything you need to make cut roses stand even longer

It is believed that a rose is a short-lived flower and does not stand in a vase for a long time. And, indeed, if the cut roses are not properly looked after, they will fade after a couple of days. But with proper care, these flowers can remain fresh for a very long time: two weeks or more.

What should be done in order to keep the flowers in the vase for as long as possible? And can it be brought back to life if they began to fade? All this will be discussed in this article.

How long does an average cut live?

On average, cut roses in a vase cost from two days to a week.

How long can you prolong the life and freshness of a bouquet?

If the roses are properly looked after, you can extend their life for a period of two weeks to a month.

Why quickly fade?

Wither flowers placed in a vase can for many reasons, the main of which are:

• Lack of moisture.
• The formation of an air bubble in the stem, preventing the flow of water to the flower head.
• Incorrect storage temperature for cut flowers.
• Mistakes in making a bouquet when flowers are added to roses, acting on them destructively.
• Incorrectly selected vase.
• Dirt and microorganisms proliferating in turbid water.
• Wrong bouquet storage location.
• Leaving a bouquet in direct sunlight or in a hot room.

What is added in stores?

Sellers in flower shops add special substances to the water that prolong the life of flowers. Most often, ammonium or Chrysal is used for these purposes.

Analogs

What home methods will help to make the cut stand in the water for the longest time and how to apply them? Cut flowers need nutrients and water disinfection. Therefore, all home remedies can be divided into two groups:

• top dressing: sugar, glycerin, vinegar, salt;
• disinfecting: aspirin, manganese, etc.

Vinegar and salt, not only provide the flowers with the nutrients they need, but are also preservatives. Thanks to their use, the bouquet remains fresh for a long time.

Care

Next, we learn how to keep a bouquet at home for a long time, how to properly care for cut flowers, at home, whether you need to add something to the water, how often to change it, at what temperature to store roses and what else needs to be done so that they last longer stood, did not sluggish and delighted you.

Basic care rules:

1. You can not immediately bring the bouquet into a warm room from the cold. You must first let the flowers warm up in a cool hallway or on a loggia.
2. Having brought the bouquet home, you need to remove the wrapper and the whole decor from it, and then fill the bucket with water and put roses there for a couple of hours.
3. Then you should take a sharpened knife and under water cut the stems at an acute angle.
4. The vase needs to be selected not too high, but not low, so that the roses feel comfortable in it.
5. Before placing flowers in a vase, it is necessary to clean them from below from excess leaves and thorns by about 1/3 of the stem height.
6. The water temperature should be cool in the summer, but not icy, and in the winter - room temperature.
7. It is better to use boiled, thawed, filtered or distilled water.
8. Before use, wash the vase with a weak solution of an antiseptic.
9. In water, it is necessary to place nutritious dressing with a disinfectant.
10. Flowers should be kept in a cool place. At the same time, care must be taken to ensure that direct sunlight does not fall on them.
11. Water needs to be changed every three days.
12. If the turbidity of the water began earlier, then it must be changed immediately.
13. With each change of water, it is necessary to renew the sections, removing 1-2 cm of the stem.
14. If the room is hot, then you should spray the roses several times a day from the spray gun, making sure that water droplets do not fall on the middle of the flowers and inside the buds.
15. You can not put roses next to fresh fruits, since the ethylene that they secrete can accelerate wilting.
16. Roses cannot tolerate the neighborhood of other plants.

How to keep cut flowers for a long time at home?

How can you best and longest keep fresh cut flowers in water at home, not only in the warm season, but also in winter?

With aspirin

You can add aspirin to rose water: salicylic acid, which it contains, will keep the water fresh and will not allow harmful microorganisms to multiply in it. Procedure:

1. Before placing flowers in water, dissolve several tablets of aspirin in it, observing a proportion of 1: 1, that is, 1 tablet per 1 liter of water.
2. Put flowers in water with aspirin dissolved in it.
3. With each change of water, dissolve aspirin in it in the same proportion again.

With glycerin

A common home remedy such as glycerin will help keep roses fresh for a long time, for a whole month. Instruction:

1. Before you put the bouquet in water, you should dissolve a few drops of glycerin in it.
2. Put the bouquet in a vase of water in which glycerin has been added.
3. At each water change, add a little glycerin to it.

Using sugar

Sugar cannot provide roses with sufficient preservation, and therefore it is recommended to use it in combination with vinegar. It is done like this:

1. It is necessary to add sugar to the prepared water at the rate of one and a half teaspoons per 1 liter of water.
2. Vinegar is also added to the water, but in a proportion of 1 tablespoon per liter.
3. Put flowers in this solution.
4. Add sugar and vinegar to the water in the same proportions each time it is replaced.

Other means

In addition to the above methods that extend the life of roses, other folk remedies can be used to preserve, such as:

• Charcoal: put a piece of coal in water. This will help prevent water damage and the multiplication of pathogenic microorganisms in it. Instead of charcoal, you can also use activated charcoal by adding several tablets to the flower water.
• Lemon acid: It creates an acidic environment and helps flowers stay fresh longer. Put it a little, so as not to cause a chemical burn in the plant.
• Manganese: Do not pour potassium permanganate crystals into the vase. Before adding to the flowers, permanganate powder must first be dissolved in a small amount of water and added very carefully so that crystals that do not settle on the bottom get into the vase.
• Silver: You can put any silver jewelry in water with flowers so that silver ions destroy pathogenic microorganisms that can begin to multiply in it.

You will find more information about what can and cannot be added to water so that roses in a vase last longer, in a separate article.

What methods are not recommended and why?

It is not recommended to use alcohol or vodka to prolong the life of flowers, as well as synthetic detergents, as they poison water and can even cause chemical burns to the stem.

What to do for emergency resuscitation?

Roses that have just begun to fade, you can try to revive with the help of the so-called "shock therapy":

1. Remove all leaves and thorns from the stem, as they take away too much moisture from the flowers.
2. After that, you need to cut the stems below with a sharp knife, while retreating upwards by about 5-10 cm, achieving the maximum possible cut length.
3. Then you should wrap with a thin paper each of the flowers and buds.
4. Roses processed in this way are placed in a bowl with boiling water, so that the water level is 2-3 cm above the top of the cut.
5. Depending on the variety, roses are kept in boiling water for some time from 40 seconds to 1.5 minutes.
6. After that, the flowers are removed from the water, cut off their slice diagonally again, and then immersed to the very heads in a bucket of cold water.
7. After standing roses in cold water for about half an hour, they are returned to the vase.

It is necessary to carry out measures for the resuscitation of roses in a vase when they only recently began to fade: lowered the heads and slightly lost the elasticity of the petals. Only in this case, the revitalization of the flowers will be effective and they will stay fresh for about a week.

If you try to reanimate strongly withered flowers, then they will hardly stand in a vase for longer than 1-2 days.

Read more about shock therapy for roses in this video:

When is it already impossible to recover?

Roses, which have already completely withered, began to dry or, especially, fly around, it will not work. Resuscitation will not help flowers that have already undergone "shock therapy".

Proper care of cut roses ensures their long life. Flowers will stand in a vase for half a month or more, continuing all this time to please with their fresh look. If they begin to fade, they can be tried to revive, using special measures for resuscitation. This will help extend the life of roses placed in a vase for a few more days.

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