How to keep gerberas?

Many of us are trying to figure out how to preserve gerberas after we cut them in the garden or bought them. Gerbera is a beautiful flower from the Aster family that stands at the top of cut crops.

Gerberas are diverse in the form of their flowers, in their size and color. The expanded receptacle contains many tubular and reed flowers, which are so popular among the flower industry and people.

The most popular types of gerberas for cutting into bouquets:

• flowers with wide petals, which have a diameter of at least 12 cm and a wide variety of bright colors;
• small-flowered flowers with fine-petal graceful inflorescences, the diameter of which is no more than 10 cm;
• two-tone varieties;
• terry varieties of flowers.

How to keep gerberas?

If you cut your flowers in the garden, then only those whose inflorescences with already ripe pollen, with unripe gerbera pollen do not stand in the water for a long time after cutting are subject to cutting. Therefore, when cutting off your gerberas, make sure that there are already anthers. If you cannot break the flower, which is preferable, then you need to cut it off with a clear and sharp knife. Scissors and pruning shears are not suitable, as they squeeze the stem, respectively, the vessels, which interferes with the flow of water. Peduncles that are too long should not be left, as they will quickly lose their turgor, become dehydrated and wither quickly.

After you break the flowers, under running water, you need to shorten the stems by two centimeters, then for two hours you should place the flowers in water almost to the inflorescences so that the flowers are saturated with water. Then you should drain the water, leaving twenty centimeters, and for long storage you need to cut off a centimeter at the stem every other day and change the water.

If the flower stalks are too thin, then you need to use a thin wire so that they do not break. For cut flowers of gerberas, a cool room is like, in the water in which they settle, you need to add silver nitrate, and sugar or alcohol with ammonia can be added to the water in the vase. If everything is done correctly, then cut gerberas will delight you for up to fifteen days.