The secret to keeping fresh flowers long during Tet holidays

Every Tet holiday comes spring, fresh flowers are indispensable. The colorful flowers will help each family's space flooded with spring. However, how to keep fresh flowers for Tet is not everyone knows. Please refer to the tips below to keep flowers long during Tet.

Choose flowers

You should look carefully at the cut in the flower branch, if the old cut is dark, the flower has been cut for a long time.

Choosing flowers carefully is one of the important steps to keep flowers fresh for a long time. You should look carefully at the cut in the flower branch, if the old cut is dark, the flower has been cut for a long time. If you buy the whole bunch, you need to remove the flowers with signs of wilt out of the way to not affect the remaining flowers.

Note: for gladiolus flowers, chrysanthemum flowers, lilies, you should choose to buy fresh original flowers, if the flowers have been plugged into ice or cold storage, you should not buy them, because they will not bloom or bloom not beautiful. In addition, you should choose the flowers still in the outside of the dew wings, when touching the petals hard and fresh.

Wash the plug clean

It is advisable to wash the vase as clean as possible and thoroughly scrub inside.

Before plugging or changing water, you should wash the vase as clean as possible and scrub carefully inside the bottle so that there is no viscosity or soap because the chemicals can change the PH concentration in the water, causing the flower to wilt quickly. The mud mud clinging to the flower branches, if not washed, will make the water dirty and unpleasant.

Pruning branches properly

Should be cut to increase the area exposed to water, flowers will absorb more water and fresh longer.

You should cut off the wilted, crushed leaves and the leaves that are submerged in the water to avoid decaying leaves, causing decaying flowers to wilt. Just keep some of the leaves above to help the flowers to be natural, too many leaves will make the flower branch quickly evaporate and quickly disappear. In addition, you need to leave the flower in warm water and then use a sharp scissors to cut, avoid spreading the cuts on the branches. You remember to cut to increase the area exposed to water, the flower will absorb more water and fresh longer.

Change water for flowers

Change the water every day for flowers in the early morning and evening, so bring them out to the yard so that the flowers will catch the pure apricot drops and add vitality. Each time the water changes, cut the branches so that the flowers can absorb more water. If there are any wilted flowers in the vase, remove them immediately so they do not affect other flowers.

Flower display position

Avoid hot places like televisions, refrigerators and other electrical equipment.

Should put flower vases in a cool escape place, large space, no sunshine, avoid places with high temperatures, wind blowing directly, away from fans to prevent flowers from wilting due to dehydration. In addition, avoid excessive heat such as televisions, refrigerators of other electrical equipment or direct sunlight to prevent flowers from being wilted.

Nutrition for flowers

Using some dissolved aspirin in water plug also helps to keep flowers fresh longer.

You can provide more flowers with some nutrients to help your flowers grow longer.

1. Sugar : 2 tablespoons or 1/4 carbonated soft drink can be used to increase the photosynthesis process to help fresh flowers last longer.
2. Vitamin B1 : You can also crush a vitamin B1 tablet (used for 1 liter of water) and put in a flowerpot. Sugar and B1 help the flowers absorb water and keep the water long in the body, so that the flowers are longer. But this way is only clearly useful with hard-bodied flowers like pink, daisies, hydrangea.
3. Apple cider vinegar, lemon or aspirin : Mix 2 tablespoons of lemon juice or apple cider vinegar juice into 1 liter of water to increase the acidity of the water. The use of several dissolved aspirin in water plugs has the same effect.
4. Listerine mouthwash : Using flower water with Listerine added to the ratio of 15g / 1 liter of water, this solution will help kill bacteria in the water to make the flower longer.

Keep flowers blooming at will

If you want flowers to bloom right on Tet holiday, just soak the flowers in warm water for a few minutes if the flowers are too bud, and if the flowers are withered, soaking them in cold water for a few hours will help them return. In addition, if you want to keep the flower in its original shape, do not spread out and fall off the wings, you can use hairspray, hold a spray bottle about 30 cm from the flower to spray up.