Flower Cold Room
Flower preservation cold storage extends the shelf life of flowers and keeps them fresh, providing greater economic benefits. It’s essential for flower growers, logistics centers, and markets. Due to the delicate nature of flowers, they require immediate post-harvest preservation to maintain freshness and extend their lifespan, which is vital for their ornamental value and economic impact.
Economic Value of Flower Cold room
Extending Freshness: Flowers are delicate and begin to wilt shortly after being harvested. Cold storage slows down the aging process, allowing flowers to stay fresh and vibrant for a longer period.
Maintaining Quality: Proper temperature and humidity control in a flower cold storage ensure that the flowers maintain their color, fragrance, and structural integrity, which is crucial for their aesthetic and commercial value.
Reducing Waste: Without adequate preservation, a significant portion of harvested flowers may spoil before reaching the market. Cold storage minimizes spoilage and waste, leading to better resource utilization.
Meeting Market Demand: Flower cold storage allows growers and sellers to store flowers for extended periods, making it possible to meet market demand even when flowers are out of season or during transportation over long distances.
Economic Benefits: By prolonging the shelf life and quality of flowers, cold storage helps maximize the profitability of flower sales, benefiting growers, distributors, and retailers.
Required Temperature and Types of Flower Cold Rooms
The storage temperature in flower preservation cold storage is around 1-12°C, with regular flower preservation temperatures ranging from 1-3°C, and tropical flowers at 10-12°C, maintaining a basic constant temperature of 12°C. The relative humidity is kept at around 60-85% and 95%. The flower preservation cold storage provided by Guangzhou Ice Point Tech can freely adjust the temperature according to the specific requirements of different flowers.
There are various methods for storing flowers in cold storage, and we can build flower preservation cold storage, transparent flower cold storage, or post-loading flower cold storage based on your specific needs.
Flower Storage Tips
Properly control the temperature and humidity inside the cold storage. If the humidity is insufficient, you can add a humidifier or spray water on the floor.
Trim the stems of flowers inserted in buckets to allow them to absorb water fully, and consider adding preservatives to assist in maintaining freshness.
Avoid over-packaging flowers stored in the cold storage, as lack of ventilation can lead to mold. It’s better to store them in bulk.
Since flowers can easily lose petals or leaves due to wind, choose low-wind speed double-sided air blowers or air-cooled units to avoid direct airflow on the flowers.
If you need to store both regular flowers and tropical flowers, you can design separate compartments with different temperature controls to accommodate the storage needs of both types.
During the daily storage process, regularly check the water levels in the buckets and look for any signs of falling leaves, wilting, or withering of the flowers.
The cold storage should be disinfected, cleaned, and maintained regularly, including replacing the refrigerant oil. Additionally, avoid storing products other than flowers, such as beverages, bananas, or apples, in the cold storage.
Common Types of Flowers Stored
Common types of flowers stored in flower cold storage include plum blossoms, peach blossoms, peonies, crabapple flowers, magnolias, yulan magnolias, bauhinia, forsythia, golden bells, lilacs, wisteria, azaleas, pomegranate flowers, Michelia, white magnolias, jasmine, gardenias, osmanthus, hibiscus mutabilis, wintersweet, redbud, silver bud willow, camellias, wintersweet, roses, hibiscus, Chinese boxthorn, bougainvillea, etc.
Other flowers include spring orchids, scented violets, Sagittaria, hyacinths, tulips, violets, snapdragons, perennial daisies, cineraria, morning glories, sweet peas, summer orchids, carnations, Lycoris, lotus flowers, asters, water lilies, peonies, phlox, tuberose, marigolds, gomphrena, cymbidium orchids, lilies of the valley, New Year’s orchids, Sagittaria flowers, scented violets, gloxinia, daffodils, small orchids, cineraria, pocketbook flowers, rabbit flowers, red wax flowers, and more.
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