The Chinese Valentine's Day rose has become one of the best-selling items. The rose is the symbol of love. The rose sent by the lover is beautiful and charming, but it will wither in a few days. It's a pity to think about it. So it's tricky to keep the roses that symbolize love blooming on the Chinese Valentine's Day!
How to keep fresh roses for a long time?
1. Use vitamin C or white sugar
Break a small piece of vitamin C and crush it into water or add a little sugar to the water. Then cut a small section of the bottom of the received rose flower diameter and put it into a water bottle with added vitamin C or sugar. Spray the rose petals and leaves with a watering pot every day, so as to better maintain the freshness of the rose.
2. Keep fresh with beer
Add a little beer to the vase where the rose is placed. Because the beer itself contains ethanol, it can disinfect and antiseptic the cut of the rose's flower branches. Because it contains sugar and other nutrients, it can provide the rose's branches and leaves with proper nutrients, so that the rose can be preserved for a long time.
3. Add some salt and sugar into the water
Adding a small amount of sugar to the clear water can make the buds of the roses in the vase open more brightly and prolong the fresh-keeping period of the roses. The main function of adding salt to clear water to make it become salt water is to prevent the growth of bacteria in the water, to a certain extent, it can maintain the better water absorption capacity of flowers, so as to maintain the freshness of roses. However, we need to remind you that the concentration of salt water should not be too large, generally not more than 5%, otherwise the effect will be counterproductive.
4. Ingenious use of tea
The rose inserted in the vase is easy to wither. Generally speaking, the flower period of the rose inserted in clear water is only three or four days. If tea is used instead of clear water, it can not only delay the withering time of roses, but also make the flowers fresh and fragrant. It's better to have the tea at a higher concentration.
5. Use fresh flower preservative
If there are fresh flower preservatives on the market, you can add a proper amount of fresh flower preservative into the solution of inserting roses. Using medicament can prolong the time of keeping rose fresh. If you don't want to spend money on fresh flower preservatives, here's how to make your own. Take a little detergent and dissolve it in warm water to prepare a solution with a concentration of 2% to 4%. Immerse the cut rose branches into a water depth of about 5cm. In this way, the flowering period of roses can be prolonged by 2 to 3 times.