FlowerWatch Degree hours - Explained
Our partners from FlowerWatch developed a Degree hours flower lifecycle methodology. Check more in the video below.
The vase life of flowers can be measured in so-called "degree hours", where one degree hour equals 1 hour x 1 °C. The longer the flowers are exposed to temperatures above the desired level, the more they suffer. To ensure a good vase life, the maximum number of degree hours before the flower is placed in a vase is on average about 500.
If the temperature of a flower is 25 °C (77 °F) after cutting, 20 °C (68 °F) during the second hour and 15 °C (59 °F) during the third hour, you have already lost 60 degrees of shelf life - in a span of just 3 hours!
Weber Cooling understands what it takes to achieve perfect pre-cooling of your flowers and offers solutions that can optimize cooling.
