{
 "license": "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/",
 "id": "rose-picking",
 "type": "Process",
 "version": 1,
 "updated": "2026-09-30",
 "confidence": "A",
 "history": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no Historical Event record yet"
 },
 "media": [],
 "station": 1,
 "kind": "harvest",
 "sources": [
  "HV-1"
 ],
 "name": {
  "value": "picking of the rose blossom",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-1",
  "quote": "The picking of rose blossom begins at 5-6 a.m. and continues until 11-12 noon.",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-1-eu-pgi-bulgarsko-rozovo-maslo.md:16",
  "confidence": "A"
 },
 "method": {
  "value": "by hand: only blossoms with at least one open petal are picked, with the sepals, without damaging the stem or the branches",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-1",
  "quote": "The harvest takes place over a 20 to 30-day period and requires special skills: between several hours before daybreak and the early morning only blossoms with at least one open petal are picked with the sepals, without damaging the stem or the branches.",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-1-eu-pgi-bulgarsko-rozovo-maslo.md:22",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the EU register’s single document for the PGI “Bulgarsko rozovo maslo”"
 },
 "timing": {
  "value": "from 5–6 a.m. until 11–12 noon",
  "evidence": "documented",
  "source": "HV-1",
  "quote": "The picking of rose blossom begins at 5-6 a.m. and continues until 11-12 noon.",
  "where": "docs/sources/HV-1-eu-pgi-bulgarsko-rozovo-maslo.md:16",
  "confidence": "A",
  "note": "the season (May, 20–30 days) is on the Origin record kazanlak-bg (harvest_windows)"
 },
 "yields": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "the source gives no yield per picker or per hectare"
 },
 "parameters": {
  "value": null,
  "evidence": null,
  "source": null,
  "where": null,
  "confidence": null,
  "note": "no further sourced parameters"
 },
 "materials": [
  "rose-otto",
  "rose-absolute"
 ],
 "botanicals": [
  "rosa-damascena"
 ],
 "origins": [
  "kazanlak-bg"
 ],
 "links": {
  "essay": "/materials#origin-rose"
 },
 "copy": {
  "lede": "The damask rose is picked by hand in the early morning, from 5 or 6 a.m. until about noon: only blossoms with at least one open petal, with their sepals, without damaging the stem."
 },
 "notes": "HV-1 describes the Bulgarian PGI rose oil (rose otto); rose-absolute is listed as the same flowers’ other material (inferred: HV-1 does not describe the absolute)."
}