Has anyone ever seen this happen with roses?

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Had a wedding with 7 bridal attendants with bouquets that consisted of white roses green buttons and green hypericum berries, did them in straight bouquet holders as the bride wanted a very rounded look that I was not able to achieve doing as hand helds. I fake it in the holder and added stems. The brides had alot more of all 3 items so I had no problem with doing the hand held on this one.

Saturday morning I go into package the wedding for a 1:00 pick up and discover that all 0f the white roses that were used in the bouquet holders have markings in black. Hard to describe but it was like every bruising but instead of the bruising being a light brown it was black and you could take a petal and actually wipe away some of the black. It was not in round spots but more vein like lines. I had never seen this happen, Peter had never seen anything like this happen.

It also happened to the brides bouquet but only on a few outer petals of a few roses. None of the bouts or corsages were affected. With the girls it was all through the roses and on all of them.

It seems to me that it may have been caused from the bouquet holders but I am not sure.

Have any of you ever seen this happen?
 
Yeah, I've seen it. Not sure, but I think it is a form of mold.
Definately NOT the bouquet holders, because I use them for virtually all of my bouquets, and I've thankfully not had the problem in wedding bouquets. What variety of rose was it? In my case, it was Virginia.
JP
 
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Joan, you must have horrified!

So the bouts and corsages, were they in bags? If the material wiped off of the petals, it certainly sounds like a type of mold unless there is something in the cooler above where the bouquets were that would have settled on them. Just to make sure, I would put a few pieces of white paper where the bouquets were and see if the same black powder settles on it. If nothing settles on the paper, it was probably some sort of mildew.

Either way, something is not right in your cooler. I seem to remember you have fabric drapes in the back of your showcase, would the bouquets have been on the other side of that fabric? Could there be something on the fabric that could have been disturbed? Did you have any Akito's left over and if so, is there any evidence of the black marks on them?
 
I have had a similar problem happen in bouquet holders only on a certain variety rose it showed up after I sprayed the oasis holder with Stem Lock. I also had a few brown spots appear when using Design Master Clear life on white spray roses. Not sure if I sprayed the spray roses with maybe too much??
 
No fabric in this cooler. The cooler you have seen in pics is my showcase cooler. We have a separate cooler for all of this work. It was vainy in appearance and was not something that settled on to it, more like veiny lines almost like creases in the blooms just in some places you could smudge it off with your finger.
I do not use stem lock in my bouquets so it wasn't from that.

This was pretty perplexing and horrifying to say the least. I pick up 75 new roses to switch them out, the wholesaler had escimo, not a match to the akito rose but close enough. I pick my roses in with wood pics, have always done it this way, so I don't think that the pics had anything to do with it.
 
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I don't suppose you managed to get a picture?

I'm sure you were frantic, would probably not have occurred to me to take a pic but if you happen to have saved any, I would be really interested to see if anybody can figure it out, it could be helpful to all of us.
 
I worked with a designer once who always had this happen to his bridal work - anything with white roses. He'd pick the affected petals off, and then it would happen again. I could work with the same batch of white roses with no problems. We finally decided that there was something in his sweat that affected the petals. I became his petal cleaning lackey!
 
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Knife's Wife said:
It also happened to the brides bouquet but only on a few outer petals of a few roses. None of the bouts or corsages were affected. With the girls it was all through the roses and on all of them.

Have any of you ever seen this happen?
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This is so bizarre, never heard of it happening. But if a different someone worked on the unaffected items, Sprout may be on to something.
Initially, I thought of the fan blowing something onto the bouquets. Was anything or everything bagged or covered in the cooler?
 
For all we know maybe it wasn't his sweat per se, but his hand cream or something. But I could touch the same roses with no ill effect to the roses. It was always the white roses - especially Akito.

You'll have to apply some scientific method!
 
I did all the wedding work, it was not covered with wax tissue paper. The bouts and corsages were bagged but the brides and the bridesmaids were both uncover. But you know funny thing...I never had to touch the heads of the brides or the heads on the bouts or corsages, but I did touch each and every rose that went into the bouquets because I picked them and then and then handled gentle guided them into the bouquet holders. You might just have something with the touching, I do not put anything on my hands like lotion and I wash with dawn soap at work. Hmmm!!!
 
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