Orchid increasingly attractive. At this time the many new orchid varieties produced in the country. The challenge is to keep cut orchid flowers can remain fresh in a long time. Shipping orchid cut flower preservative without fresh flowers, feared the age of the lower interest rate and diameter of flowers.

Pulsing is usually done, that is steep footstalk 4 cm deep cut into the nutrition solution for 16 hours in a cool room (21 degree centigrade), to provide nutrition reserve stock at the same time can protect the flowers from the stalk of microorganisms plug rod tube. Solvents used during this pulsing form sukrosa 50 g / l, silver nitrate 25 ppm, 200 ppm citric acid.

Besides regular sugar (commercial sugar) can be used as a substitute for sukrosa in pulsing. Composition of the right to treatment is pulsing commercial sugar 5% silver nitrate + 25 ppm + 200 ppm citric acid (Prabawati, et al. 2002). This composition can extend the freshness of flowers. If using a commercial 5% sugar and the cost of the solution to be Rp.622, 96 per liter solution, or Rp. 10.30 per flower stalk. Much cheaper compared with the pure sukrosa Rp. 20,313.96 / liter solution.