Flower Processing 1
What is the first thing you need to do when you receive a shipment of flowers?
What is: Unpack the flowers
What should you add to the water you place the flower in?
What is: Floral Preservative
Hydration does what to cut flowers?
What is: keeps the cut flowers fresh
Water conducting tubes in the stem
What is: Xylem
Where are the floral cutters located?
What is back closet in the tool box
You should do what with any of the foliage under the water.
What is: Remove
What is: the flowers themselves, fruit, rotting foliage, car exhausts
What is: to determine if it is good for the flowers
Ethylene gas causes what:
What is: rapid aging
Where should you store your flowers?
Cutting the stems allows what to happen?
What is: Capillaries to open back up and suck up water
You should remove sleeves from all flowers except
What is: roses
What is pH a measure of?
What is: how acidic or basic a water sample is
Conditioning Flowers does what?
What is: extends their life
Where can you find vases?
What is: the back closet on the shelf
What are two things the flower preservative provides?
What is:
1. Better Hydration Levels
2. Prolong flower life
3. Lower pH levels
What is one quality of water that can affect how much water a flower can take in?
What is: How stems were cut, temperature, water quality and pH levels
Seven on the pH scale is neutral or acidic?
What is: Neutral
When a flower converts stored food into energy
What is: Respiration
Where can you find floral preservatives?
What is: back closet in a large white bucket
What does botrytis do to petals of a flower visually?
What is: Cause brown spots
What is the best temp for storing roses and carnations?
What is: 36-40 degrees Fahrenheit
Water for flowers should be between _____ and _____ on the pH scale?
What is: 3.2 and 4.5
What is Bactericide?
What is: a substance that kills bacteria
Where can you find the rulers?