• J.Padmanaban
• V. Dhiviya Bharathi
• S.Rameshkumar
• S.Murugan

In floriculture industry, it is mandatory to maintain the standards of making bouquets and floral arrangements with modern technologies to improve the vase life. Aqua pack could be an innovative idea for increasing the vase life of hand-tied bouquets and floral arrangements to provide holding solution at the cut end. Standardizing effective holding solution for aqua pack is the present-day need in floral industry. Hence, the present lab investigation was carried out in the Department of Horticulture, Annamalai University, India, during 2017-2018 in a Completely Randomized Design with three replications. The 19 treatments comprising AgNo3 @ 25 and 50 ppm, Benzyl Adenine @150 and 200 ppm and 8- HQS @ 200 and 300 ppm as individual treatments and in different combinations along with control were tested on gerbera flower stalks of Cv. Dana Ellen in aqua pack containing 200 ml of different holding solutions for each treatment. The flowers were kept in ambient condition for assessment of post harvest parameters, quality and vase life. The result of the experiment revealed that aqua pack with AgNo3@25ppm + 8 HQS@300ppm (T10) as holding solution showed greatest influences over important quality characters and vase life when compared to other treatments. There was a drastic enhancement in the vase life up to 11.95 days in the best treatment (T10). The cost economics also revealed that T10 was observed as most cost effective (Total Cost: Vase life Ratio @ 3.72) holding solution to maintain quality and obtain double the vase life in aqua pack.

Aqua Pack, Benzyl Adenine, Ag No3, 8-HQS, Gerbera, Quality characters, Bouquets ,Floral arrangements, Vase life etc.,

"Effect of Postharvest Treatments on Vase Life of Gerbera (Gerbera Jamesonii)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.941-947, June-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906429.pdf

"Effect of Postharvest Treatments on Vase Life of Gerbera (Gerbera Jamesonii)", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp941-947, June-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1906429.pdf