Re: GWL Conditioning cut flowers

**A*@aol.com**

If you do refrigerate, be sure you use either a florists refrigerator, a  
manual defrost refrigerator (if you can find one), or a refrigerator without 
a  freezer.  

Self -defrosting refrigerators suck the moisture out of the blooms.   Want 
to test this thesis?  Put an uncovered bowl of Jello in a self-defrost  frig 
and one in a manual defrost frig.  Go back the next day and you'll  find 
the one in the self-defrost fridge is getting rubbery -- the moisture is  
being sucked out of it.  The one in the manual defrost fridge will be  fine.

Lina Burton

In a message dated 6/20/2012 5:59:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
BettyMackey@verizon.net writes:

A good  florist will refrigerate bouquets 
before they go out, but you don't have  to go quite that far.

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