	US 12,356,983 B2
	Gelled hydration medium
Geraldine Paola Hernandez Vasquez, Naarden (NL); Bart Arnoldus Wilhelmus Dings, Naarden (NL); and Wilhelmus Johannes Leonardus Arts, Naarden (NL)
Assigned to ENHOLD B.V., Naarden (NL)
Filed by Enhold B.V., Naarden (NL)
Filed on Jun. 28, 2022, as Appl. No. 17/852,109.
Application 17/852,109 is a continuation of application No. PCT/EP2020/088054, filed on Dec. 30, 2020.
Claims priority of application No. 19220216 (EP), filed on Dec. 31, 2019.
Prior Publication US 2022/0322619 A1, Oct. 13, 2022
Int. Cl. A01N 3/02 (2006.01); A01G 2/10 (2018.01); A01G 24/35 (2018.01); A01N 25/04 (2006.01); A01N 59/06 (2006.01)

CPC A01N 3/02 (2013.01) [A01N 25/04 (2013.01); A01N 59/06 (2013.01); A01G 2/10 (2018.02); A01G 24/35 (2018.02)]

14 Claims

1. A flower shipment kit, comprising:

(a) a container holding an aqueous flower gel; and

(b) one or more cut flowers having stems immersed in the aqueous flower gel,

wherein the aqueous flower gel comprises:

(i) 1-4 wt. % of disc-shaped smectite clay nanoparticles having two opposing flat surfaces that are negatively charged and a rim that is positively charged, and

(ii) 0.01-250 mM of one or more gel destabilizing agents selected from acidulants, dissolved metal cations and dissolved ammonium cations.