Method for producing a pocket-like storage container for cut plants, having a flexible sheath of a water-impermeable thermoplastic film and an internal coating of an absorbent material, wherein the absorbent material forms a saturable water reservoir for the cut flowers and is covered by a water-permeable cover layer of a thermoplastic plastics material, and wherein the water-impermeable thermoplastic film in the region of a pocket opening is inwardly folded back over the internal coating of saturable material and in the folded-back region is at least on one side connected to the cover layer, characterized in that - in a first method step a first rectangular shaped part of a water-impermeable film is provided; - in a second method step a second rectangular shaped part of an absorbent material is provided and placed onto the water-impermeable film, wherein the second shaped part is of the same geometry as the first shaped part but so much smaller than the latter that an encircling unoccupied periphery of the water-impermeable film remains; - in a third method step the water-impermeable film on two mutually opposite transverse peripheries (3a,b) is folded back over the internal coating of absorbent material; - in a fourth method step a third rectangular shaped part of a water-permeable cover layer of thermoplastic plastics material is placed in a substantially covering manner over the absorbent material provided in the preceding steps as well as over those parts of the water-impermeable film that have been folded back as well as not been folded back; - in a fifth method step the water-permeable cover layer having the water-impermeable film is fastened at least at the two mutually opposite transverse peripheries (3a,b) of the first shaped part such that a semi-finished product is created; - in a sixth method step the semi-finished product is folded along a centreline (B-B) in such a manner that the water-permeable cover layers are in mutual contact; and - in a seventh method step the folded semi-finished product is welded along longitudinal peripheries (6a,b) in such a manner that in the region of weld seams two layers of the water-permeable cover layer lie between two layers of the water-impermeable film. - in a first method step a first rectangular shaped part of a water-impermeable film is provided; - in a second method step a second rectangular shaped part of an absorbent material is provided and placed onto the water-impermeable film, wherein the second shaped part is of the same geometry as the first shaped part but so much smaller than the latter that an encircling unoccupied periphery of the water-impermeable film remains; - in a third method step the water-impermeable film on two mutually opposite transverse peripheries (3a,b) is folded back over the internal coating of absorbent material; - in a fourth method step a third rectangular shaped part of a water-permeable cover layer of thermoplastic plastics material is placed in a substantially covering manner over the absorbent material provided in the preceding steps as well as over those parts of the water-impermeable film that have been folded back as well as not been folded back; - in a fifth method step the water-permeable cover layer having the water-impermeable film is fastened at least at the two mutually opposite transverse peripheries (3a,b) of the first shaped part such that a semi-finished product is created; - in a sixth method step the semi-finished product is folded along a centreline (B-B) in such a manner that the water-permeable cover layers are in mutual contact; and - in a seventh method step the folded semi-finished product is welded along longitudinal peripheries (6a,b) in such a manner that in the region of weld seams two layers of the water-permeable cover layer lie between two layers of the water-impermeable film.