Dipping [cut] roses in calcium before shipping

General Discussion
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Clemson experts: Dipping roses in calcium before shipping may prolong their beauty

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Very interesting idea. Any clue what concentration? And would it have to be pure CaCl2 or would a commercial salt replacement (icemelt product) work? Will this work be published perhaps in a hort jnl?

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Hmm… I wonder if seedlings germinated/grown in Ca(NO3)2 obtain any similar added resistance to damping off.

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I’m not sure when the paper will be published. Here’s an earlier work from the same group where they characterized 49 Botrytis isolates:

https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PDIS-09-18-1623-RE

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I’m not sure when the paper will be published. Here’s an earlier work from the same group where they characterized 49 Botrytis isolates:

https://apsjournals.apsnet.org/doi/10.1094/PDIS-09-18-1623-RE