Home remedies for the flowers
Grandma would always advise. With their remedies, she offered solutions to many problems. but are they really work? A check of the ideas for flower vases. What helps really against hanging heads and wilted leaves?
Copper coin in the water: This idea probably dates on the assumption that the heavy metal, copper combines with proteins and can inhibit the development of microorganism. A copper coating has the one-, two-, five-cent pieces. But only a few coppers go into the water, the effects are therefore small.
Citric acid: Citric acid in the vase is to lower the pH-value and thus inhibit the development of micro-organisms. Is this the case? The pH-value is falling, but the effect here is low.
Household Cleaners: It has not positive effects in the vase water. The highly concentrated active ingredients can burn the leaves. Just as little help charcoal, lime, aspirin, vinegar and the ethereal oil of camphor tree in the water.
Boil the stems: this is often advised, for example at the sunflower. The end of the stalks comes briefly in boiling water. Woody stems at an angle can cut and for a maximum of three seconds are immersed in boiling water. The protein coagulates and the hot water load raised air bubbles from the air and protein stems prevents water uptake. After that handles directly in a vase with clean water before it can pull back the air.
To immerse the stems in hot water, advises the experts even with daffodils, They leave other cut flowers poisonous mucus out. Through the short dive, later it can avoid more juice comes out. The flowers are also better for a day alone in a vase.
Hammer: get the branches in a vase, advises Grandma to the hammer method: the stalk end soft knock. so it takes better water. But The florists discourages.The hammer hurt the stalk and at the point damaged penetrate bacteria into the wood.
But what really helps? Fresh tap water and also a clean vase. The flowers are then as cool, shady and if possible, even with the stems in the water transported home. The bottom leaves of the stem carefully pick off and at the end, at least, two or three centimeters are cut at an angle. Branches as well as handles that all thick and woody very deeply cut with a knife and then also split some stalk.
