Are the flowers you got for Valentine’s Day already wilting? Some guy on TikTok tested a bunch of hacks to see if adding different things to the water really makes flowers last longer.
He tried nine different things and put a single rose in each vase. He added pennies . . . bleach with sugar . . . Red Bull . . . unpopped popcorn . . . 7-Up . . . a double-A battery . . . denture tablets . . . aspirin . . . and regular old flower food. That’s the stuff you sometimes get with a bouquet.
So did any of them actually work? For more than one, the answer was YES.
The hacks that did the worst were bleach, aspirin, and 7-Up. Red Bull didn’t seem to make a huge difference either.
The denture tabs, popcorn, and battery DID seem to help. The roses still looked pretty okay a week later.
But these last two seemed to make the biggest difference. If you want your flowers to last longer, add PENNIES or regular old FLOWER FOOD.
