Step 5: Add floral food into the water; let the flowers absorb the water for several hours. In case you don’t have floral food; you can use a teaspoon of sugar.
Step 6: After letting the flowers absorb water for several hours; remove the cardboard around. Flowers directly from the farms have still their protecting exterior petals around; in the retail they plug them out. These petals are normally harder and darker due to the sun during the growing process of the roses. Watch Out For The Rose Thorns.