Buying Tips: Ask: Variety name. Different varieties have different flower qualities. Learn the varieties that work best at your location. Avoid: Flowers with brown petal tips and unopened flowers that feel soft. Look for: Flowers in the ‘pencil’ stage, showing color or just starting to open.

Processing: Unpack immediately so product is not allowed to dry out. Remove foliage below solution level. Recut stems. Remove lower foliage.

Pretreatment: Use Floralife’s HydraFlor^® 100 hydration pretreatment for to promote water uptake and hydration. This treatment will help increase bud opening and decrease flower wilting and bent neck, and also keeps flower stems free flowing.

Holding Solution: Use fresh flower food at the recommended rate: Use Flower Food 300, 200, Clear 200, or Clear ULTRA 200 storage and transport treatments, or depending on water test results, Special Blend 300 for Hard Water or for Pure Water.
Hold flowers at room temperature for 1 - 2 hours if you want them to open soon, prior to storage in cooler or designing. As a finishing touch to any floral design, spray Floralife^® Finishing Touch hydration and protection spray.

Ethylene Sensitivity: Low ethylene sensitivity.

Vase Life: 3 to 10 days.

Storage Temperature: 34 - 36˚ F cooler / 75 - 85% humidity.

TROUBLESHOOTING

Yellow foliage

Could be due to production conditions, old product, improper storage conditions, or extended period out of solution. Check on previous handling conditions and age of product. Do not allow Iris to dry out and utilize Floralife^® Bulb Food.

Buds fail to open

May be due to insufficient solution uptake. Recut stems under water, use HydraFlor^® 100 followed by a holding solution of a properly mixed Floralife^® Bulb Food.

Drying out of flowers and foliage

Could be due to improper storage or extended period out of solution. Make sure flowers are not kept dry for long periods. Hold in high humidity (75 - 80%).