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A lot of people commented on our video about flower food to suggest cutting flower stems under running water, and that's not a bad idea because when you cut stems out water, you introduce them to air and then return them to water in the vase, where forces push more water into the stem.
This creates a bubble, and when air bubbles get trapped in stems, they can be deadly to leaves. But that air can diffuse out, so it's not necessarily the end of the line for your plant. It just might be easier to avoid all that by not introducing an air bubble in the first place.
This creates a bubble, and when air bubbles get trapped in stems, they can be deadly to leaves. But that air can diffuse out, so it's not necessarily the end of the line for your plant. It just might be easier to avoid all that by not introducing an air bubble in the first place.