Extending the storage-life of gerbera flowers cv. ‘lexington’ using cold storage
International Journal of Development Research
Extending the storage-life of gerbera flowers cv. ‘lexington’ using cold storage
Received 11th December, 2017; Received in revised form 26th January, 2018; Accepted 23rd February, 2018; Published online 30th March, 2018.
Copyright © 2018, Dr. Parag Babaji Jadhav. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
The experiment was conducted at Ecofrost Technologies Pvt. Ltd., Pune, Maharashtra, to study the effects of tap water, Sucrose, and Sucrose + Citric acid solution treatments on the post-harvest storage-life of cut flowers of Gerbera cv. ‘Lexington’ inside cold storage as well as at room conditions. Gerbera flowers treated with (2% Sucrose + Citric acid 0.2%) (T4) holding solution resulted in the longest storage-life of the cut flowers (13.3 days). Optimum weight of the cut flower (g) on the 3rd, 6th and 10th days was best maintained using treatment i.e. Sucrose 2% (T3).
