Long-Term Storage of Cut Roses
August 4, 2023 | 1 min to read
Long-term storage of cut roses is essential for growers and bouquet makers to manage “safely stocks” during peak seasons and facilitate shipping over extended durations. Key factors for maintaining quality during storage include selecting suitable varieties, controlling ethylene and Botrytis damage, ensuring hydration, and managing temperature and humidity. Additionally, effective re-hydration post-storage is crucial for reviving the flowers. Ensuring these elements can significantly enhance the postharvest quality of cut roses.
Successful storage of cut roses for a long duration without compromising the postharvest quality is of commercial importance for several reasons. It will allow growers and bouquet makers to maintain “safely stocks” of harvested flowers during peak seasons. It will also allow shipping flowers in sea containers as it takes several weeks of transport from growing regions to consumers.
Several key factors are important in maintaining the quality of cut roses during long-term storage or sea shipment.
- Selecting varieties that generally withstand long-term cold storage.
- Controlling ethylene damage.
- Controlling Botrytis damage during storage.
- Maintaining hydration levels of cut flowers.
- Controlling proper temperature and humidity during storage.
- Effective “re-hydration” after the storage.
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