Rose flower is often called queen flowers. And this statement is completely true. No flowering plant has such a number of advantages: the luxurious shape of flowers, not transmitted by the words shades, a variety of forms, amazing flavor. Cutting off the bush my own grown roses or receiving them as a gift in the form of a bouquet, we try to save this luxury as long as possible. There are many ways to extend the life of roses, which we will talk about now.
How to cut roses with a bush for longer preservation?
Properly cut with roses bush will stand in a vase for a very long time:
- Choose those varieties in which one flower grows on the stem, and the stem itself is pretty strong and thick. These properties respond to roses tea-hybrid.
- For cutting, choose roses with not completely open buton.
- Cutting into cloudy weather or very early in the morning when the bushes are not yet lit by the sun.
- Digging on the shoot at an angle of 45 degrees. This will increase the area of \u200b\u200bthe cut, through which the rose will eat moisture in the vase.
- Cut the lower leaves on the shoots - they can start to be rotated in water.
- If the roses are cut off for a gift, and not to decorate your own home, then before presenting their addressee, keep no more than 5-6 hours in a cold basement or refrigerator, but without water. Just wrap a bouquet with dense dark paper.
How to reanimate donated roses for long-term preservation?
Quite often, roses as a gift we get not recently cut off the bush, but even brought from other countries. They are grown there in special greenhouse farms. Varieties in any greenhouses, even in our domestic, are selected only very persistent. Such roses are well transferring transportation and long-term storage in cold rooms. Next, falling into flower shops, they turn out to be in a warmer atmosphere and sometimes begin to fade. Clear sellers break up unsightly top petals, the so-called "shirt". Due to the removal of this natural protection, the flowers suffer even more. If you received a bouquet of roses not too presentable, you can reanimate them.
- Get a bouquet in the cool room and together with packaging paper place it in a bucket with cool water. Watch the flowers themselves not in the water. Dark curtains in the room and give roses to stand in the dark and the coolness of three-four hours. Next, remove the package from roses and put them into the cooked water vase.
- Roses can be revived in a bath filled with cool water. Place shoots with flowers in water in such a way that the flowers are above the surface. To do this, use the lattice dryer for linen by installing a fixture to the bottom of the bath and hooking buds for it or already open roses. In the bath, hold roses at least five hours, and then place it in the vase.
- In both cases (revival in the bucket or in the bathroom) two hours before the removal of roses from the water, do the bottom leaves and make new sections at the ends of the shoots. Slices do under water and very sharp clean knife.
How to place roses in a vase for longer preservation?
Any roses that are recently cut or purchased in the store require their proper placement in the vase. Further long-term flowering depends on this.
- Died in the bathroom or just removed from the bush, put them in a high and wide vase. Her heights should be enough to shoot roses in the water for two thirds of their heights. The width of the vase should be such that roses in it stand freely, and did not look too tight mass consisting of a huge number of stems and colors.
- If you have a choice of VAZ in the house, then give preference to ceramic. Because of its dense walls, water will be saved with a cooler. Also, ceramics will protect water from entering it, due to which it can quickly deteriate.
- Watch that there is no green leaf in the water - they first cut them down from the stems. Weeping the leaves will contribute to the rapid reproduction of pathogens of microorganisms.
- Put with roses in such a place where straight sunny rays will not fall on it. Also, roses are very afraid of drafts - consider it when they are placed in the room. You can not put roses and near the heating devices - Flowers like coolness.
- Pay attention to the neighborhood of roses - never stay alongside a fruit vase, especially with citrus or bananas. Fruits produce ethylene gas, which is considered very harmful for flowers. Any flowers next to fruit fade much faster.
- Every two days change water in a vase with roses to fresh. Pour it is not too cold, but an ordinary room temperature. When changing water, do not forget to update the cut on the stem. Make this procedure under the jet of running water.
- If the ends of some stems become smaller, then such roses no longer place in the total high vase. It is better to dry them up to a good green bark and put in another, lower vase.
How to disinfect water in a vase with roses for their long-term preservation?
In addition to heavy heat and drafts, roses suffer from rotten bacteria in a vase. Sometimes even the daily change of water does not lead to a good result and roses are very fast. In order for a luxurious pink bouquet to please you as long as possible, you can take advantage of the following folk remedies.
- Do not be afraid to use conventional water from under the tap for filling the vase. Chlorine, located in it, will contribute to the destruction of harmful microorganisms.
- Well helps to keep the freshness of water. An ordinary pharmacy aspirin. On the standard large vase you will need one tablet of this medication. Tablet can put the whole - in the water it is dissolved itself. Do not forget to do this with every change of water.
- If it is impossible to put aspirin in a vase, you can pour into the water at the tip of a knife of citric acid or pour a couple of tablespoons of ordinary vodka. These funds will also help the freshness of the water, but if they do not forget to put it when changing it.
- Silver is considered the best cleansing agent. Put in water for roses old earrings or ring. Just do not forget about this value when you merge old water from the vase. In order not to lose the silver product, tie it with a thread to one of the shoots of roses standing in a vase.
In this video you will find a few more useful tips for the preservation of cut roses.