Ensure that you use fresh blade-cut stems. Fluff heads if bunched together. Strip foliages off stem and cut stem to desired length. The stems will dry slower than the head, therefore the less stem, the faster the drying. The end product is natural looking in appearance. The Flower Factory carefully preserves your wedding bouquet using the latest Freeze Dry technology. Our five-step process ensures the highest standard of floral preservation.
Your bouquet is photographed, inventoried and dismantled. Each bloom is then re-hydrated. We pre-treat the flowers with a solution to make them more durable, shatter-resistant and retain their natural colour. This is a bit like preheating your oven before you start cooking, except in this case, you prepare your freeze dryer by cooling it down. Make sure your freeze dryer is plugged in and turned on, and then set the temperature and press the start button. Space out the flowers on the dryer trays.
Put the trays into the machine before covering and sealing the door. Slide the trays into the slots in the specimen chamber. Then, cover the door with the blackout cover.
The blackout cover comes with the machine and slides right over the door to provide extra insulation. Close the door tightly. The door to the chamber has to be completely sealed for the freeze drying to work. Double-check your directions to ensure you closed the machine properly with the right insulation.
Some freeze drying machines will start the freeze drying process as soon as they are pre-cooled, but for other machines you will have to separately turn on the vacuum pump after you have loaded in the trays.
Just walk away from your freeze dryer and let it do its thing for an entire 24 hours. The freeze dryer will cool down your flowers and vacuum out the air to remove all the moisture while preserving their shape.
Continue raising the temperature every other day after that. Check your flowers for dryness after 10 days. Check if the flowers are done by touching them. If they feel cold, that means they still contain moisture and need to be freeze dried for more time, so put the trays back in the freeze dryer for another day.
You can also check by cutting into one of the petals and seeing if there is any moisture. If they are done, remove the flowers from the trays. If you want, you can put your freeze dried flowers in a glass-covered frame for display. Keep your flowers in a shadow box. Instead, keep them in a shadow box, which is an enclosed glass-fronted display case.
Once this is done, the treated flowers are then placed on a tray and loaded into our state-of-the-art freeze-dryer. A vacuum is formed in the chamber so that the moisture from the flowers can be slowly extracted.
This part of the procedure is done at a slower rate so as to prevent damage to the petals from the moisture bursting out of the cells.
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