Wet transport means the stems are standing in water. The method used depends on the variety of plant, method of transport and duration of transpot. Dry transport may be in plastic or canvas slings, which individual blooms are placed ino on harvest. Wet transport may involve picking into canvas or plastic slings, or picking into buckets of water. Either way, the flowers are placed in water soon after picking When harvesting, always have more slings and containers than you think will be needed.
Overcrowding blooms makes separation and grading difficult later.
The time a flower can be stored varies greatly between varieties. Some orchid flowers can remain open for two months, but most flowers do not last so well. Flower quality begins to deteriorate as soon as it is harvested. Good storage slows deterioration, but does not stop it. Flowers cut in a warm place will have a lot of heat in the plant tissue, and unless cooled quickly, that heat will remain and continue to hasten deterioration.