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The trick of putting a penny in the vase water? It totally backfired on me.
I saw some old florist online talking about dropping a copper penny in the vase to keep flower stems from rotting. Figured I'd try it with a batch of roses I had last week, about 20 stems for a big order. Dropped three old pre-1982 pennies in the water and left them overnight. Came back the next morning and the water was this weird greenish slime, smelled awful. Turns out the copper reacted with something in my tap water or maybe the flower food I added, and it basically made a sludge that clogged the stems right up. Those roses looked rough by noon, I had to toss half of them. I'm sticking with just clean water and a dash of bleach from now on. Anybody else fall for an old wives tale that wrecked your arrangements?
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tessap976d ago
My 92 year old aunt has been dropping pre-1982 pennies in her rose vases for fifty years and her arrangements last two weeks in the Texas summer heat, so maybe your tap water had something extra in it or you used too many pennies. It sounds like the real problem was the flower food mixing with the copper, not the penny itself.
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brian_hart6d ago
Real problem was the flower food mixing with the copper" - classic case of @tessap97 proving common advice isn't always right.
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