Commercial Floriculture

Harvesting/Post-Harvest Handling

• The stems should be cut when the first flower is fully colored, but not yet open.
  
• They should be stripped of 5 cm of their lower leaves and put into clean water with a preservative and STS.
  
• The field heat should be taken out in a cooler at 2.5^oC.
  
• Grading is done based on the number of calyx per stem. Minimum requirement is 4 stem per bunch with 20 buds per bunch.