Flowers get food from plants until it is attached to the plant. On detachment, the flowers shift to the stored food for their survival. This is why, it is necessary to provide cut flowers with required nutrients for enhanced vase life. Sucrose is a good nutrient medium which acts as readily available substrate for respiration, and responsible for maintaining valuable turgidity over a longer period of time. STS being an effective opponent to ethylene also contributes to an enhanced vase life. Reddy et al., [22] found that cut gladiolus spikes held in vase solution containing 200 ppm 8 Hydroxyquinoine citrate (8 HQC) and 4% sucrose maintained fresh weights above initial weights even up to the 8th day of vase life, while those held in distilled water lost their fresh weight gains to below their initial weight on the 4th day. The pattern and findings of current study and other studies conducted at different parts of the world suggest that STS and sucrose play vital role in changing the dry weight of cut flowers