Chrysal Flower Boost – Clear Flower Food Packets for Flower Arrangements & Bouquets – Floral Supplies for Fresh Flowers – Fresh Flower Arrangements Supplies (5g - 100 Ct)

Ok. I buy roses for my wife every week. I take personal pride in getting the roses to last 7-9 days. Here is how....1) Cut the ends of the roses off every day, just an 1/8th of an inch but every day. 2) Use Chrysal flower fresh EVERY time i change the water (every day)....3) add 2 cups of ice to the water the roses sit in and they open more slowly....AMAZING!!!!

They work great.

These are perfect to extend the life of fresh flowers. They really do the job.

This is an excellent product and works very well and keeping my flowers. Fresh… It does not need a whole packet for the vase and bouquet… Very happy with this purchase.

I've been looking forward to using Chrysal Flower Boost packets instead of what I currently do: squeeze juice from a lemon wedge into the vase water followed by stirring in a spoonful of sugar. I may still add a dash of vodka, which supposedly inhibits ethylene production - the gas that makes bananas and tomatoes ripen but also causes cut flowers to wilt.I'm a bit disappointed to only receive 97 packets instead of the 100 that I purchased, hence 4 stars. According to the reviews, this has happened to other customers too.

My husband often surprises me with bouquets of cut flowers that I cut to different lengths for an arrangement in a vase. Sometimes packets of food for the flowers are included with the flowers and sometimes they are not. I keep these packets on hand for use when packets are not included and also to allow water changes that include fresh food for the flowers. By using these packets of flower food, my cut flowers have lasted much longer, and many more of the flower buds have bloomed that hadn't bloomed previous to using this flower food.When arranging my flowers, I always cut each stem on a 45 degree angle. This allows more area for the stems to absorb the food in the water, and helps flowers to last longer as well as buds to bloom. The flower pictured were flower buds when my husband brought these flowers home. All of the flower buds blossomed.

Great stuff! Here's how to use it.Dissolve powder in 1/4 c or so of hot water. Put 1 c TAP water (not cold water or you'll crack your vase) into the vase and pour in the solution. Put in the flowers. Fill vase with tap water. I use the snout end of a bulb baster as a funnel to get into hard-to-reach places. Put tap water into a measuring cup, choosing the one that pours most accurately. (Remove the rubber bulb part of the baster; you're not sucking up anything; you're just directing the water.)Remember to pull off any leaves that will be submerged (Martha Stewart says to remove all leaves. It's the leaves that make the water nasty) when you make your arrangement. I just pull off the ones that I know will be submerged; she has more time than I have.You get 100 packets, so when you change the water in the vase, give yourself a new packet. You have plenty of them!When you reconstitute your arrangement into subsequently smaller vases (having thrown out wilted flowers and cut off the bottoms of stems of flowers that are still presentable), give yourself another new packet. If I buy carnations, remove the leaves, and give me myself a new packet each time, I've had bouquets last a month. (When they are starting to look skimpy, fill in with baby's breath or statice or some other dried material. Or pick some sprigs off your shrubs.)If you're buying flowers at the grocery store, ask when they came in. In fact, ask them the delivery day of the week. Ditto if buying flowers at Costco.Anyway, this stuff is good. Buy some. mb

This is only the first time I've used the packets and I'm impressed. I bought a bunch of wildflowers at the farmers market on Saturday hoping they'd hold up at least until mid-week. I trimmed the stems and used 2 packets with 4 cups of water as directed when I got home. I changed the water, with new packets, on Tuesday and again today (Friday) and the bouquet looks better than it did originally because lots of buds opened and only two flowers wilted over the week.