Commercial Floriculture

Harvesting and Post harvest handling

• Flowers are harvest during morning hours.
• Cut the flowers along with long stem.
• Place immediately in a container half filled with water.
• Keep in cool & dark place for conditioning before packing.
• Pretreatment with boiling water for 30 seconds 3-5 days
• Vase life (3-4 days)
• 8.2 days – 10% glucose + 0.2 mM AgNo₃ + 8 HQS 200 PPM
• 8.7 days – 10% glucose + 0.2 mM AgNo₃