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| I am a total newbie at this, in fact up until my 1 year anniversary last week with my girlfriend nobody had ever bought me a dozen roses before. It was a surprise and they were left by my car for roughly and hour to an hour and a half, our of water i dont believe it was too cold that morning
I did everything i thought/read that you should after some research, they were just in water at first then i read about cutting them at a 45 degree angle to allow for water and some of the buds starting drooping and i researched how to revive them but it didnt seem to work. A week later none of the buds were showing any signs of opening, so after reading online i tried to open them by myself, and to my dismay, every petal fell off of the roses! I was kinda heartbroken about it as i wanted to dry them once they began opening so I could have them always as a reminder of how terrific my 1 year anniversary was but now...i cant I would like to buy another dozen roses of the same that she bought me,and try to do what i said above and the final goal is to dry them. I did read online that roses are best when dried halfway between open and closed, and i was wondering if anyone could share an example of when this is? Also what are the exact steps i need to to take ensure the same fate doesnt happen again once i purchase them? Also why would the petals just fall off like that, offering very little resistance if any to the actual bud? Did i do something wrong or were they just weak to begin with? |
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- Posted by hookoodooku z7 AL (My Page) on Fri, Feb 3, 12 at 0:43
| Cut roses will only last about 5 days. The petals fell off your roses because it had just been too long. For those that know what they are doing, there are things you can do that will allow roses to last as long as a week. But here's the easy way to keep them looking fresh for at least 5 days. Once a day, refill a vase with water as hot as you can get it from out of the tap (don't heat it beyond that). Now cut the rose stem at a 45 degree angle and place it in the hot water of the vase. The ides is that when you cut a rose, in "defense" it draws up some of the water at the cut site. That creates an air pocket that prevents the rose from absorbing more water into the stem. But if you place the stem in a vase of hot water, the hot water will push the air bubble back out. Rather than using hot water, you can also cut the roses under water to help prevent that air bubble from forming. But that requires buying a special tool, or filling a sink and using your cutting tool under water. But if you use the hot water trick, and replace the water daily, the rose will easily last 5 days and still be pretty fresh. There are other trick out there, do some google searches on the subject. But in the mean time, the hot water trick is perhaps the easiest. |
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- Posted by RugbyPlayer none (My Page) on Mon, Feb 6, 12 at 0:15
| thank you for the reply, that raises another question though, the inside petals were still very soft and moist and seemed to be getting plenty of moisture and showed no signs of wilting, very little brown if any at all, is that irrelevant in the amount of time i had them for? |
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