Floral Cooler Vs Refrigerator
Now you must be wondering that why can’t you simply use a traditional commercial refrigerator for your cold floral storage. Well, this is actually not the ideal case. Actually, flowers need high humidity and soft airflow to remain fresh and charming. Your average commercial refrigerator actually creates low humidity because this is specially designed for the food items and most of the food items remain the freshest in this type of environment. Apart from this, fast air movement helps in maintaining low humidity in most of the commercial coolers and this rapid airflow can easily accelerate the dehydration of your flowers and cause inventory loss as well.
As compared to a standard commercial refrigerator, a floral cooler is specifically designed with custom delicate features keeping the flowers and plants in mind. For this purpose, floral coolers make use of high humidity and low airflow to protect the delicate petals, leaves, and stems of these flowers. These specially designed coolers are supplied with low-velocity evaporator coils to make sure that that air movement is slow and gentle and does not harm the flowers in any way. This guarantees that petals and leaves do not become dehydrated and dry out at all. Floral coolers are also designed in such a way that the humidity remains high even at the low temperatures settings in which the flowers need to be stored. High humidity tends to work in order to protect and preserve the different parts of flowers and plants, so they look their best when your customer makes a purchase.
As stated earlier, flowers remain at their best state if they are stored at 33–35 degrees Fahrenheit right after being harvested. This means your cooler or refrigerators needs to be able to maintain such temperature in order to properly store your flower’s stock. You must have a humidity and temperature monitor which will help you to make sure your floral cooler is working appropriately, and your flowers are stored safely in such a way that keeps them fresh. No doubt that your floral refrigerators may cost more as compared to your average commercial cooler, but your inventory will last longer, and your customers will be more satisfied and happier with your product when it is stored and cared for properly and in the right equipment. There are still chances that you lose some of your flowers to dehydration, bacterial infections, and stem shrivel but with a longer shelf life, your inventory loss goes down significantly, and your customers will come back to have more.
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