Flower Boxes Breathe: Chill, Humidity and Ethylene in a 24-Hour Cut-Flower Shipment

Four hundred bunches of roses left a Nairobi packhouse at 4 degrees and arrived in Amsterdam with grey-blue botrytis on the outer petals of perhaps 6 percent of stems. The log was clean, the box had been closed within spec, and the packs were still partly frozen. What the log did not show was 96 per…