Recipes keep fresh flowers long during Tet holiday

Every Tet comes, each family decorates their house with colorful flower pots that not only bring new vitality and also bring the warm atmosphere of spring to everyone in the family. But how to keep fresh flowers for a long time, not everyone knows.

For the flowers to be fresh and vibrant with your family welcoming the first days of the new year, follow some tips below.

1. Choose to buy fresh flowers on Tet

For long-lasting flowers, you need to choose carefully from the step of buying flowers. For gladiolus flowers (daisies), chrysanthemums, lilies, you should choose to buy fresh flowers from the original, if the flowers have been plugged into ice or cold storage, they should not buy, because they will not bloom or bloom not beautiful. . For other flowers, you should look carefully at the cut in the flower branch, if the old cut is dark, the flower has been cut long, should not be chosen.

In addition, you should choose the flowers that remain intact outside the wings, when touching the petals hard and fresh.

2. How to plug fresh flowers long

Clean the bottle

Before flower arrangement, you should wash the bottle thoroughly to prevent bacteria, mold, and cleaning agents from "attacking" your flowers and causing them to wilt quickly.

Cut the flowers properly

Before being plugged into a vase, the flower should be removed from the wilted leaves, the leaves submerged in the water to avoid the decaying leaves, you just need to keep a few leaves above to help the flowers to be natural, too many leaves will makes the flower branch quickly evaporate water vapor and fade away.

In addition, you should use the sharp cutting of the stem of the flower to increase the area of ​​contact with the water to help the flower absorb more water.

Change water for flowers

Flowers are replaced with water every day for longer flowering. This is one of the best ways to keep long-lasting flowers for soft-bodied flowers such as single and horn. Instead, you should cut off the original part and wash it through the branches that are plugged in the water so that the flowers can absorb more water and keep the water clean. You can also let the flowers dry in the dew in the evening to make the flowers last longer.

Flower display position

Should put flower vases in a cool escape place, large space, no sunshine, avoid places with high temperatures, wind blowing directly.

Nutrition for flowers

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

1. Sugar: 2 tablespoons or 1/4 of carbonated soft drink can be used to increase the photosynthesis process for long-lasting fresh flowers.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.
2. Apple cider vinegar, lemon or aspirin: Mix 2 tablespoons of lemon juice or apple cider vinegar in 1 liter of water to increase the acidity in the water.The use of several dissolved aspirin in water plug has the same effect.
3. 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, you only need to 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.