Conditioning and Storing Cut Flowers

Based on the PowerPoint. Why is it important to have long lasting flowers in the floral industry.

• its not, flowers don't care how long they live

• pleases customers and helps ensure they will return

• so they can continue to mature and be used for seed later

• flowers are cheap and easy to produce so if they die you can just cut more

What causes flower deterioration? select all that apply

• Low water absorption

• heat and sunlight

• ethylene gas

• Stem blockage

• Transpiration (Loss of Water)

What are some causes of stem blockage?

• Bacteria

• lack of vascular tissue

• mineral build up from water

• air entering the stem when cut

• to much xylem left in the root system

Flowers continue to live after they are cut.

• True

• False

Flowers continue to require food after they are cut

• false

• true

• flowers don't eat

Flowers continue to photosynthesize after they are cut

• false, plants photosynthesize not their flowers

• True, flowers are part of a plant and will continue to photosynthesize even after they are cut

What is Botrytis

• a rare flower

• similar to arthritis, florist develop it in their hands from working with to many floral materials over the years

• a fungus that causes brown spots on petals

• A floral preservative

Ethylene gas occurs naturally

• True

• False

Ethylene gas (Select all that apply)

• preserves flowers

• helps fruit to ripen

• Causes rapid deterioration of flowers

• is part of the transpiration process

Ethylene gas is caused and increased by

• rotting foliage below the water line

• evaporation

• transpiration of plants

• exhaust fumes from cars