Jun 25, 2008

The freshness of the Piece


Guarded so that the piece orchid could stay fresh in time for quite a long time.The sending of the piece orchid without the freshness preservative of the flower, it was worried about reduced the age of the flower show and the diameter of the flower.
Usually was carried out pulsing, that is dipping the stem of the piece flower be as deep as 4 cm in the solution to nutrition for 16 hours in cool space (21 levels celcius), in order to gives provisions of reserve nutrition at the same time could protect the stem of the flower from the attack micro-organisms of the plug of the stem artery.
Uptil now was utilised the solution pulsing took the form of sucrose 50 g/l, nitrate silver 25 ppm, the citric acid 200 ppm.Moreover normal sugar (commercial sugar) could be used as the replacement of sucrose in pulsing.
The material composition that was exact for the treatment pulsing was commercial sugar 5 of % + nitrate silver 25 ppm + the citric acid 200 ppm (Prabawati, et al. 2002). This composition could extend the freshness of the flower.

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