Studies on keeping quality of dried and dyed Chincherinchee flowers

Chincherinchee flowers were harvested when 10–11 florets were open for conducting studies on keeping quality. Flowers dried in hot air oven and in microwave oven as well as dyed flowers were kept upto 120 days under three conditions of storage i.e., without cover, in cellophane sheets and in paper envelopes. The results indicated that after 120 days of storage duration, maximum score was allotted to flowers which were dried in microwave oven and were kept covered in paper envelopes. Similarly, in case of dyed flowers maximum presentability was found in Yellow fabric dye stored in paper envelopes followed by those stored in cellophane sheets as compared to open (without cover) conditions.