Commercial Floriculture

Factors affecting storage life of flowers

• Quality of flowers,
  
• Stage of harvest,
  
• Temperature, relative humidity, light,
  
• Ethylene
  
• Pathogens are import factors determine the storage life of flowers.
  
• Flowers should be of good quality free from injury, pest and diseases otherwise prone to ethylene production and infection with pathogens.
  
• Harvested at optimum stage,
  
• Stored at cool temperature (1-4^oc)
  
• High relative humidity (90-95%) and maintenance of storage room in hygienic conditions are important.