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Fresh cut flowers are dying. How do I save them?

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I've neard a splash of hydrogen peroxide but I do not understand 1. how it works and 2. how much to put in them if this isn't a joke. Are there any other ways to save them?

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  1. once they start to go not much can save them - I've always heard putting some sugar in the water can prolong them a little but I'd just change the water regular because it starts to smell quickly once they get old and trim the dead ones so the display looks nicer longer


  2. Fresh cut flowers vary greatly in their "cut life."  Also you need to set them first, by cutting them and immediately putting into warm water and setting in a cool location over night....refrigerators are too cold.  Then the next day you recut the stems while holding under water and transfer to a vase or arrangement.  As I said above, some flowers just don't make it as cut flowers.....poppies for example. (well, you can burn the ends to seal the sap....)

    Hydrogen peroxide was probably recommended to help delay bacteria buildup.  There's no magical cure with HP.  

    Take the flowers to the sink, fill the sink with warm, remove the chill, water.  Put the flowers in the sink, obviously ends in the water.  Then clean out the vase well, soap and water, rinse several times, fill with tepid water.  Now go back to the flowers, while holding each stem under water, cut off a portion, count to 10 and then quickly transfer back to the water filled vase.  Set the flowers in a cool spot out of sunlight. Hope that works.

    Forget hydrogen peroxide, pennies, aspirin etc in the water. Clean water is the best....maybe a drop of chlorine bleach will delay the bacteria, but too much will kill the flowers.

  3. pout in the water one aspirin, and they will be OK again

  4. C.P.R. ...................who knows

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