DIY Video: How To Prepare Your DIY Wholesale Flowers
How To Prepare Your DIY Wholesale Flowers
Learn how to process and treat your DIY wedding flowers once they arrive at your home. Start by tracking the delivery and knowing when the flowers should arrive. Open the box as soon as it arrives to begin the process of rehydrating the flowers. Organize your work area and prepare your tools before the flowers arrive. Be prepared ahead of time by preparing buckets for processing flowers. Make sure each bucket is thoroughly clean, let it dry, and add water to it. Find out more about preparing flowers in this video.
How To Prep Your DIY Wholesale Flowers
- Make sure your buckets are clean inside and fill them with water about three to four inches deep.
- The plastic on the flowers should be removed, the rubber band should be cut, and the leaves should be removed from the stems below the waterline. Cut the stems at a sharp 45-degree angle.
- Roses are packed in 25 stems and layered in 2 rows. Remove the roses from the cardboard gently. The number of thorns on a rose will vary from one to another. The thorns can be snapped with your fingers or gently cut from the stem. Don't cut or slit the rose stems when removing the thorns. Cut the stems at a sharp 45-degree angle. /a>
- Guard petals that appear in poor condition on the outer of the rose should be removed. Let the flowers rehydrate overnight in a cool area, check the water every few hours, and make sure it's clean and fresh. If your flowers don't seem to be rehydrating, recut the stems.
- Floral Buckets
- Floral Cutter for trimming your flowers and greens
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