. . . The main benefit of controlled-atmosphere storage is the active suppression of the plant’s ripening and death hormone, ethylene gas. Amazingly, the roses you bought for your sweetheart or mothers on Valentine’s Day may have been picked in Ecuador or Colombia way back in December, then held, chilled, for as long as two or three months in controlled-atmosphere warehouses until they’re purchased, then shipped, just before February 1r. Few customers ever guess that their Valentine’s Day red roses are the Methuselahs of the cut-flower world.
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