Storing Peonies and Tulips + How to Handle Cut Flowers After Harvest with Dr. John Dole

About this episode

In this episode, Jennie Love interviews Dr. John Dole about best practices for storing peonies and tulips and handling cut flowers after harvest.

There are some incredible nuggets of pure gold in this episode. You will definitely want to have a pen and paper handy! Joining me today is Dr. John Dole , cut flower researcher and professor at North Carolina State University. As you'll hear in the episode, John has been immersed in flowers since he was just 8 years old, planting gladiolas at a neighbor's farm in Michigan. Over the decades, he's been a keystone leader for the floral industry, serving farmers and florists alike with his valuable research projects. John is well known for his work with the Association of Specialty Cut Flower Grower s , which is where I met him years ago. My friendship with John is an example of how priceless a membership in the Association can be. If you are not already a member of the ASCFG, you'll want to click the link above right now to join. While John and I were talking here for the podcast, I was reminded how much I have learned over the years from him and others who have generously shared their knowledge through the ASCFG. For flower farmers, John, along with his posse of awesome graduate students, has done a lot of studies on what we call "post harvest handling" of cut flowers. Basically…

People in this episode

Host: Jennie Love

Guest: Dr. John Dole

Topics covered

• flower storage
• cut flower handling
• post harvest practices
• flower farming
• floral industry

Keywords

• peonies
• tulips
• cut flowers
• post harvest handling
• flower farming
• vase life
• floral research

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: North Carolina State University, Association of Specialty Cut Flower Growers

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