Easy Ways to Make Flowers Last Longer

Just a colorful bouquet to react with joy the first rains of autumn. There is only one difficulty: to be able to keep in a safe long the freshness of cut flowers. You change the water, using the special powder, cut the stems but, unfortunately, the results are often disappointing. Here, then, are three tips stolen from science. All you want to copy.

Wash the jars with baking soda
The common bicarbonate, which for chemists and a sodium salt of carbonic acid, has the property of removing bacteria. Those who, by feeding on the sap of the stems in a vase, cloud the water and make it unhealthy. To make the bouquet more durable, with each water change and want to switch on the interior wallr of a sponge with baking powder. Not only. To retard the growth of bacteria, before putting the flowers in the vase just add a pinch of baking soda in the water.

Use a blade to absorb the water
Cut flowers last for longer if, before putting them in the jar, cut a piece of stem. Use scissors, however, could be a mistake: the two opposite blades tend to crush and destroy the stem. And if the fluid is well corolla, the petals fade much more quickly. Better to rely on a very sharp knife and the blade thin. More precise cutting and, in fact, you create less damage to the stem and to the microscopic internal channels through which the flowers absorb water. Eye on the inclination of the cutting and more oblique, the greater the surface through which water enters.

Keep away from fruit bouquet
Apples, pears & Co., when they are ripe, they give off ethylene, a colorless, sweet-smelling, which accelerates the maturation of the flowers. It makes them wither. Each corolla wasted, then, in turn, releases the gas. That's why the flowers should be kept away from the bowl with the fruit, and when you change the water, you must remove the flowers a bit faded.