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I Tried 3 Methods to Keep Flowers Fresh, and the Winner Surprised Me
13.07.2024 - 01:45 / thespruce.com / Nishaa Sharma
Confession time: my green thumb is completely nonexistent. I struggle to keep the beautiful flower bouquets I bring home alive for as long as I can remember.
So, when I stumbled upon a video with not one, but three different viral methods to keep flowers fresh, I was immediately interested in trying them out.
As someone who spends countless hours scrolling for work, I know some TikTok home hacks don't go to plan and some are absolutely game-changing— and decided to put these to the test to see if any would work in real life.
I found the three methods to keep flowers fresh in a video by @thekwendyhome, where she documents each method side-by-side in a time-lapse: Sprite and bleach, a penny, and a pin-prick hack.
Wendy found the pin-prick method to work best on her tulips, so I was excited to see if the results would be the same with my roses.
The Spruce/ Nishaa Sharma
I wanted to keep everything as consistent as possible in each vase, so I bought two bouquets of supermarket flowers and divided them evenly between four clear vases.
Next, I labeled each vase with which hack I would be using and filled them up with water, taking care to keep water levels even.
Finally, I cleared a windowsill to make enough room for all four vases so they would also all be getting the same amount of sunlight. I added a bit of flower food to my control vase and got to work setting up each hack.
The first hack I tried was the most eyebrow-raising: putting a capful of Sprite and a capful of bleach into the vase. This is meant to give the plants sugar with the soda (similarly to flower food) and prevent microbes from growing in the water with the bleach.
The Spruce / Nishaa Sharma
The second was the pin-prick method, which was the winner
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